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Volleyball opens up Big 12 Play This Week

The Gregory Gazelles begin defense of their Big 12 Championship Wednesday night at Gregory Gym.  #24 ranked Baylor comes to town with an 11-0 record.  First serve is at 6pm

The Gazelles continue their home stand Friday night at 6:30 against tenth ranked Iowa State in a rematch of last year's regional final.

 

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Awesome

On TV that I can see. Thanks for the update.

You ain't hurt.

by Peter Bean on Sep 14, 2009 11:19 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Is Elizabeth Graham playing for Baylor this year?

Or does she have to sit out a year after her transfer?

Iowa State will be a huge early challenge for the Gazelles. I think the Cyclones gave us fits in all three matches last season. But if we continue to outblock our opponents by a 10-point margin I can’t see either of these matches going to four at home.

Still a Blaine Irby fan

by patienthornsfan on Sep 15, 2009 3:18 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

She is playing for Baylor.

NCAA stats were released this week and guess who leads the nation in blocks per set?
http://web1.ncaa.org/stats/StatsSrv/rankings

by TempestHorn on Sep 15, 2009 9:41 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

My link does not work so....

 NCAA® Women’s Volleyball
Division I
Blocks Per Set
Through Games 09/13/2009
   

Rank Name S Block Solos Block Assists Per Set
1 Texas 19 16 101 3.50
2 Penn St. 27 13 146 3.19
3 Oregon 19 9 101 3.13
4 Arizona St. 21 14 102 3.10
5 Syracuse 36 58 106 3.08
6 Idaho 32 15 165 3.05
7 Oregon St. 32 14 164 3.00
  Creighton 33 16 166 3.00
9 Clemson 33 14 168 2.97
10 Indiana

by TempestHorn on Sep 15, 2009 9:42 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Nebraska finally lost at home

The Huskers had their nation-leading 90-game home win streak snapped by #8 UCLA on Sunday. It’s shame, because I was hoping the Gazelles would be the team to do it! But clearly this is a rebuilding year for Nebraska, which has already lost to Michigan and UCLA and has struggled to win matches against Minnesota and unranked LSU and BYU. They’ve dropped from #3 in the pre-season to #8 now.

The season really seems to be shaping up as a 3-horse race now between Penn State, Texas and Washington, with Michigan in the dark horse role. UW will inevitably get beaten up in Pac 10 play and lose a couple, and Michigan will likely lose both matches with PSU, so Texas just needs to take care of business to ensure it locks down a 1 seed and a favorable draw in the regional rounds.

Still a Blaine Irby fan

by patienthornsfan on Sep 15, 2009 6:10 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

E-mail from the Exes advertised a ticket special to the Friday night match.

I’ll call the better half now to see if we can begin our football weekend in Austin a little sooner than originally planned.

I'll never forget ol' what's-his-name.

by Horntod on Sep 15, 2009 10:38 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Engle hammering the kill

Horns took first set. Up 4-3 early in second.

You ain't hurt.

by Peter Bean on Sep 16, 2009 6:34 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Webster

Impressive

You ain't hurt.

by Peter Bean on Sep 16, 2009 6:38 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Little sloppy

Yikes when they put it all together

"I live in the tower with Coach Brown." -Bevo

by run Bevo run on Sep 16, 2009 7:02 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Yeah

You can tell their ceiling is well above where they’re playing right now. Destinee just flies. Unreal.

You ain't hurt.

by Peter Bean on Sep 16, 2009 7:04 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Did you see that kill?

She left from behind the 10ft. line, landed 6 inches from the net, mean kill.

"I live in the tower with Coach Brown." -Bevo

by run Bevo run on Sep 16, 2009 7:05 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Filthy

What a supreme athlete.

You ain't hurt.

by Peter Bean on Sep 16, 2009 7:17 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

It's called a back row attack

… and it’s my favorite play in volleyball. No one can execute it like Destinee can. Course she has an unfair advantage as a world-class high jumper, but as you said that girl can fly. She has to start her attack from the back row, which takes a great deal of momentum, then hit the ball between the 3 defenders on the front row and away from any of the 3 defenders on the ground in the back row. Oh, and if her momentum carries her into the net, we lose the point. That’s an awful lot of skilled mechanics to get precisely right, and no one in the country does it better than Destinee.

Still a Blaine Irby fan

by patienthornsfan on Sep 18, 2009 2:46 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

"Engle to Hooker"

Has a certain ring to it, like “McCoy to Shipley.”

"I live in the tower with Coach Brown." -Bevo

by run Bevo run on Sep 16, 2009 7:17 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Wow!!!

Amazing

"I live in the tower with Coach Brown." -Bevo

by run Bevo run on Sep 16, 2009 7:27 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

Thoughts on the match

Definitely not our best match of the year. This match was better than Long Beach but worse than all the others. Never really were in sync.

Good news is Heather was nursing an injury from Saturday and didn’t practice until today. Sydney was apparently sick two days out of this week. Hopefully, those two will get better and our passing will improve for Friday. We will need to play better against Iowa State. We also need a bigger turnout at Gregory on Friday night.

by TempestHorn on Sep 16, 2009 11:19 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

I noticed

Rachael Adams getting set lower than her appeared comfort zone.

"I live in the tower with Coach Brown." -Bevo

by run Bevo run on Sep 17, 2009 3:40 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

I didn't get to watch the match since we don't get ESPNU over here

… but if Rachael was playing at her natural position of MB, she will quite often get a low set from Ashley for a quick attack. I know there’s a name for the play but I can’t remember it right now. Michelle Moriarty used to use it with devastating effect with Brandy Magee and Pao. Rachael will get the hang of it soon enough. It’s a great play, because the opposing blockers have that split-second of doubt as to whether it’s going to be a high or low set – and split seconds of doubt almost always lead to kills.

Still a Blaine Irby fan

by patienthornsfan on Sep 18, 2009 2:53 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

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