By Cindy Luis

Normal starting lineup with Hewitt starting. Better radio connection tonight. UH up 9-4, on a 5-0 run. TO USU.

UH up 18-12. TO USU. Danielson and Ferrell both with 4 kills.

Kaufman and Mafua with a block to end it. 25-19.

Danielson 8-1-11, Ferrell 4-1-9.

By Cindy Luis

Thanks to SID Ryan Reggiani ..

UH wins 25-12. Cubi-Otineru 8-0-11, Ferrell 4-0-4, Hawaii hit .556 to Idaho’s .ooo

An ace by Ka’aihue ends it at 25-15. (Thanks Idaho Boy, Melody Eckmeier’s husband Ben). I tried to buy Idaho’s package but it wouldn’t let me. Ben did and is posting on VolleyTalk.

Cubi-Otineru added another 4 kills, Ferrell and Danielson 3. UH hit .387 to Idaho’s 172.

Hawaii wins 25-22, with the usual subs. Cubi-Otineru finishes with 16 kills, Ferrell with nine. More later.

By Cindy Luis

Working on getting updated stax per timeout. Hope to have live updates for the match.

Idaho Boy (Melody Eckmeier’s husband Ben) is doing live updates. Hawaii up 6-1. TO Idaho.

By Cindy Luis

compliments of RichKern.com

#1 Penn State (H) def. #5 Illinois 3-0
#4 Washington lost to #17 USC 2-3
#5 Illinois lost to #1 Penn State 0-3
#6 UCLA (H) def. #25 Washington State 3-1
#7 Stanford (H) def. #16 Oregon 3-0
#9 Nebraska (H) def. Texas A&M 3-0
#10 Florida (H) lost to #19 LSU 1-3
#11 Kentucky def. Georgia 3-0
#12 California (H) def. Oregon State 3-1
#13 Minnesota def. Iowa 3-0
#14 Michigan (H) def. Purdue 3-2
#15 Florida State def. Clemson 3-1
#16 Oregon lost to #7 Stanford 0-3
#17 USC (H) def. #4 Washington 3-2
#18 Arizona (H) def. Arizona State 3-0
#19 LSU def. #10 Florida 3-1
#20 Saint Louis (H) def. Rhode Island 3-0
#22 Northern Iowa def. Missouri State 3-0
#24 Notre Dame (H) def. Georgetown 3-0
#25 Washington State lost to #6 UCLA 1-3

By Cindy Luis

ESPN broadcast having problems. UH up 4-0. 2 aces for Mafua so far. normal rotation for Hawaii ,except Forsythe gets first start. Hewitt out with flulike symptoms.

Hawaii up 19-13. TO BSU. sorry. BSU’s game tracker really slow so have no stax.

Hawaii wins 25-16.

Hawaii up 9-5. in Set 2. Sounds like Forsythe doing well. TO BSU.

Wahine win 25-14.

UH up 17-10. TO BSU Hawaii wins 25-14.

Hawaii up 15-10 in Set 3. TTO.

By Cindy Luis

Sorry for the delay, just got back. As you’ve seen all four have signed their NLIs. Hawaii’s going to be very good for a while. Kaela was born in Maui and really enjoyed her trip here and Sunday’s senior night. All four know each other, either playing together or against each other. should help them acclimate.

By Cindy Luis

UH is waiting for all four National Letter of Intent forms before releasing anything today but Michelle Waber’s mom emailed me this morning that her daughter had faxed in the form this morning. Will let you know when UH confirms the others. Since they’re traveling, it might not be until noon-ish today.

have called Coach Wade about his NLIs but have heard nothing back.

By Cindy Luis

Asked a number of times but answers get lost on other threads.

Kona Warrior, have written this several times that it would be a really nice way for the AVCA to recognize Shoji’s accomplishment. They’ve put in a very reasonable bid but it’s going to depend on which geographic region they put Hawaii in. Last year that had sub-regionals less than 15 miles apart when giving 1st and 2nd rounds to UCLA and USC … at least one of which didn’t put in a bid and had them host on the same weekend as the UCLA-SC football game.

One problem is that there is short notice for teams to get to Hawaii for a Thursday-Friday subregional. but those  are the only two days UH could host because of football on Saturday and the NCAA not allowing the first-second round to be played with a day in between.

Hawaii will make money where other places will lose big time. Still, cheaper to fly one team to the mainland than 3 out to Hawaii. The Utah State coach said he hopes UH will get to host otherwise they’ll be on the road for over 30 days with a five-week period. Hawaii is coming back between the USU match and the WAC tourney as well as between the WAC tourney and selection sunday.

And, No, KFVE will not be televising the WAC tourney. ESPNU has the rights to the championship and Hawaii will be only playing one other match, Tuesday’s semifinal. they said it would cost too much and didn’t make sense for one broadcast. I hope ESPNU gets better announcers that the ones at Fresno State.

By Cindy Luis

Hawaii had pretty good fucus until the end but they also had a new starting lineup with Forsythe and Fowler in.

First two sets weren’t even as close as the scores 25-11, 25-12. Wahine hit .464 in Set 1, .514 in Set 2. Had as many errors in Set 3 as in 1 and 2 combined (6). hit .290. But they still hit .426 for the night.

Cubi-Otineru hit very well from all sides and the Utah State coached very impressed with Hawaii 3-meter attack. said they couldn’t duplicate Hawaii’s hitting power on the outsides. Thought the middle attack was very good too.

By Cindy Luis

First serve in a few minutes. Good crowd but was told a bit of a traffic jam trying to get down into the quarry. Wouldn’t be surprised if they get 8,000. Lots of signs. Same starting lineup for Hawaii.

Ben Kiaaina and Billy V. sang the national anthem and Hawaii Pono’i. It’s Ben’s last night as Wahine volleyball announcer. He’s taking another job that will conflict. He’ll stay for men’s volleyball.

Hawaii up 11-6. TO USU. UH 9-2-13, USU 2-0-9. Hewitt 3-0-3. Ka’aihue with 2 aces.

UH up 16-7, TO USU UH 11-2-15, USU 3-2-13. Cubi-Otineru 4-0-5.

Hawaii wins 25-11. UH 17-4-28. USU 4-4-23. Cubi-Otiner 6-0-9, Hewitt 4-0-5. Wahine have 4 aces.