Middle Tennessee State vs. No. 24 Louisville
November 30th, 2007
By Cindy Luis
By Cindy Luis
Middle Tennessee State holds off Louisville in Game 1 to win 30-28. Both teams hitting well, UL .364, MTS .349. The Cards have four blocks. Oddest statistic: it was a 2-point game but MTSU had 23 kills to UL’s 14.
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Louisville has tied it up at 1, winning Game 2 30-18. Cardinals balanced attack led by Lecia Brown 9-0-9, Justine Landi 9-2-16. Both teams playing great defense, UL with 22 digs, MT with 24. UL, much taller, has an 8-0 edge in blocks.
Momentum again changed sides of the court. MTSU wins Game 3 30-23, picking up 3.5 blocks, the Tigers’ first blocks of the match. Impressed by the scrappy defense from both teams. MTSU’s libero Ashley Lemau’u is really good. She’s from Long Beach Poly.
Since we’re going to Game 4, I’m guessing this is considered overtime so I can do one more blog (at least) for this one.
Going to 5. Louisville wins Game 4 30-27.
For the second year in a row, Middle Tennesse State has upset Louisville.
So seems like Middle Tennesse might match up better with the Bows. Both teams being smaller with scappy defenses that don’t rely too much on blocking?
Will be an interesting game. If Hawaii can run their middle, they have a good shot at winning this one. It’s all about the matchups … and the ball control.
wahine’s no match for mts
I assume you’re there watching the action live. Are you at all surprised the MTS beat Louisville, Cindy? Did Louisville just make more hitting/serving errors? I’m assuming they ended up outblocking MTS overall.
Not surprised at all. Hawaii could be in trouble. MTS runs a very unorthodox offense, very quick with angled sets much like timing passing patters in football. Think MTS’ defense won the match. Louisville big but too slow for the quickness of MTS.
Similar at all to GaTech’s offense back in 2003?
Not exactly Kele had those bizarre touch sets. Clark does a really nice job on timed sets where the ball is out there with the hitter running up on it.