By Cindy Luis

A good win in their return to the Sheriff Center. Fresno State is improved and just might make the WAC tournament. That’s going to be an interesting race for those last three spots. Boise State at 5-6, Fresno State at 5-7, Utah State at 5-8, Nevada 4-7, LaTech 4-9.

Funniest moment tonight … one where Shoji actually said, ‘my bad.’ Lee was in as a DS, set in front of the 3-meter line and Shoji yelled to her not to do an overhand set … which would have been illegal if she had been the libero. You could hear him from across the court where I was sitting. Then you saw him laughing after the play was over. Asked him after the match if he forgot that Lee wasn’t the libero and he said there is a rule that he never says ‘My bad.’ but he said he had to say it to Lee after that.

FSU coach was pretty realistic about tonight’s match. She knew they had to serve tougher to keep hawaii maybe a bit off balance. They didn’t. 11 SEs and countless service overpasses. Asked her if she were Shoji, what would she work on. To no surprise, she said ball control. Said Hawaii’s offense is clearly the most dominant part of their game. and that if they can get their blocking more refined, they can beat anybody.

An off night for Cubi-Otineru (5-4-16) but FSU was stacking the block on her. Nice  to see Ferrell get some strong swings (4-1-11) and Hewitt continues to improve (6=1=7 and 3 BA). Kaufman’s hang time is unreal. And she went halfway across the court to take off on one play. You would have thought she was doing a high jump approach.

By Cindy Luis

Normal starting lineup for UH. including Ferrell left front.

Hawaii up 11-7. TO Fresno State. stat monitor not working. can tell you Danielson has three kills.

FSU is playing as scrappy as the other night. Danielson continues to bail Hawaii out, has 6 kills. UH up 19-15. TO FSU.

Hawaii not looking great but they win 25-19. Hawaii hit .281, FSU .100.

By Cindy Luis

ompliments of RichKern.com

#1 Penn State def. Wisconsin 3-0

#4 Washington (H) def #5 Stanford 3-0 25-21, 25-23, 25-19
#5 Illinois (H) def. #15 Michigan 3-1
#7 UCLA def. No. 17 USC 3-2
#9 Florida (H) def. Georgia 3-0
#11 Kentucky (H) def. Alabama 3-1
#12 Minnesota (H) def. Indiana 3-0
#12 Minnesota (H) def. Indiana 3-0
#13 California def.  #24 Washington State, 3-1
#14 Oregon (H) lost to #18 Arizona, 3-1
#15 Michigan lost to #5 Illinois 1-3
#16 Florida State (H) def. Duke 3-2
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#19 LSU def. Ole Miss 3-0
#21 Saint Louis def. Charlotte 3-0

#25 Northern Iowa (H) def. Illinois State 3-0

By Cindy Luis

Walked into Gym I and watching practice is morning were two All-Americans … Suzanne Eagye Cox and Lily Kahumoku (drawing a blank on her married name). Lily was leaving tonight for Europe but Eagye and husband Tim, here for their 20th wedding anniversary and Tim’s 30th reunion for Moanalua, will be here for Friday’s and Sunday’s matches.

Suzy’s daughter is a sophomore in high school, taller than her mom (6-3) and playing volleyball. potential recruit, probably not on anyone’s radar. being home schooled in Tennessee but Suzy’s has been coaching her in club.

Another potential with Hawaii ties would be Tony Maroney’s daughter. Tony, former UH bkb player, is 7-1 … Daughter is 13 and already 6-3. The Maroneys are in New York but Tony said he was bringing the family out for vacation. suggested he send daughter to Wahine camp.

AND three of Hawaii’s four incoming players will be here this weekend. The only one not coming is … I think but don’t quote me … Waber because she already had an ‘official visit’ this year and they’re limited to 1. All four expected to sign Wednesday.

By Cindy Luis

Cyclones win 25-22, 22-25, 25-15, 25-20, 15-12

Hooker with 27 kills for Texas. on 74 attempts. Yogi with 16 digs.

By Cindy Luis

A good night for Hawaii, didn’t play down for the most part. Danielson teed off again, didn’t have a hitting error until her next-to-last swing. And glad to see Kaufman have a good night in front of a lot of family and friends.

The Spartans are undersized and young. They should be better in the next few years.

It’s going to be very interesting to see how the final weeks play out for those last three WAC tourney berths. At the moment, only Hawaii, NMSU and Idaho appear as locks, and SJSU definitely out. You’ve got No. 4-8 (five teams) battling for the remaining there spots. with only 1 1/2 games separating the buch. Fresno State and Boise State at 5-6, Nevada 4-7, and Utah State and Louisiana Tech at 4-8.

By Cindy Luis

Hawaii up 15-8 at the TTO.

Danielson 5-0-7, Kaufman 2-0-3. 2 aces by Cubi-Otineru

Hawaii up 21-9. UH 12-1-18.

Wahine finish it out for a 25-12 win. Kaufman 4-0-5, Danielson 5-0-7, Ferrell has both of the team’s hitting errors 1=2=6. UH has 5 aces already. Danielson and Cubi-Otineru 2, Mafua 1.

Hawaii up 15-10 at the TTO in Set 2. Wahine have 7 aces.

Hawaii up 19-11. TO SJSU. kaufman 5-0-6, Danielson 9-0-13.

Hawaii wins 25-15. Kaufman 6-0-7, Danelson 11-0-17.

Hawaii up 15-11 at the TTO. Kaufman 11=0=13, Danielson 14-0-23. Both Cascioppo and Forsythe in for Ferrell and Hewitt, respectively.

Cascioppo and Forsythe team for a block, it’s 19-14. TO SJSU.

Danielson finally has an error on her 26th swing. she’s 15-1-27, Kaufman still at 11-0-13.

Ferrell ends it. 25-15.

By Cindy Luis

sorry, this was under the wrong category

Have had a number of people ask recently. I put something up in August but guess it’s too hard to find it.

Chris is a volunteer assistant with the men’s program at Stanford, where younger son Spencer plays. The Cardinal staff had some medical problems so this is working out well for both.

Chris was the player-coach for Stanford in the late 60s. if you go onto gostanford.com you can see a picture of him when he was in school and when the school announced he was joining the staff.

Stanford will be here Thanksgiving week to play the Warriors. that will end Chris’ coaching stint.

He and wife Beth made a deal in the 70s when they were first married. She was gone a lot with the national team and he told her it was fine but there would come a day when he would go off to do something he wanted to do. This is the ‘day.’

Both great people. Chatted with Chris a few weeks ago when doing one of my stories on Shoji’s 1,000th. It’s been great for him because he’s able to get to son Parker’s golf tournament easier.

By Cindy Luis

compliments of RichKern.com

#3 Hawaii def. Nevada 3-0
#4 Stanford (H) lost to #11 UCLA 2-3
#6 Illinois def. Purdue 3-0
#7 Minnesota lost to Ohio State 0-3
#9 Iowa State def. Colorado 3-0
#11 UCLA def. #4 Stanford 3-2
#13 Michigan (H) def. Iowa 3-1
#14 California (H) def. #16 USC 3-1
#16 USC lost to #14 California 1-3
#17 Florida State def. Virginia Tech 3-1
#18 Arizona (H) def. #21 Washington State 3-1
#19 San Diego (H) def. Loyola Marymount 3-0
#21 Washington State lost to #18 Arizona 1-3
#22 Baylor (H) def. Texas Tech 3-0
#23 UC Irvine lost to Pacific 1-3
#25 Texas A&M def. Kansas 3-1

By Cindy Luis

Same lineup for Hawaii, but flopped with Brandt in for Ferrell to serve.

Wahine have 3 aces and Kaufman 2 kills, lead 11-6. TO Nevada.

Hawaii up 21-10. TO Nevada. Kaufman 3-0-4, Danielson 3-1-7.

Ferrell is ‘on’ tonight, 3-0-3, puts down set point. UH wins 25-16.

Set 2 starts … Nevada out to a quick 3-0 lead. Shoji calls a TO.

A 4-0 has Hawaii taking its first lead at 9-8. TO Nevada

Wahine pulling away 2 kills by Danielson and 2 UH blocks has Hawaii up 16-12. TO Nevada.

Hawaii was up 22-16 but Nevada has scored three straight, to close to 22-19. TO UH.

Ace by Kaufman ends it. UH wins 25-20.

Hawaii up 15=14 at the TTO. Danielson has 12 kills, Kaufman 10 plus 3 of the team’s 7 aces.

2 kills by Danielson makes it 17-14. TO Nevada

2 kills by Cubi-Otineru and ace by Ka’auhue ends it. 25-17