WAC Volleyball Recaps

November 11, 2011 
Hawai‘i 3, Louisiana Tech 0
No. 6 Hawai'i swept Louisiana Tech 25-11, 25-7, 25-15 on Thursday. With the win, the Rainbow Wahine improve to 25-1 overall and remain perfect in the WAC at 13-0. The Lady Techsters drop to 9-21 overall and 0-13 in conference play.

Hawai‘i out-hit LA Tech .354 to -.065. The Rainbow Wahine also had more kills (39-16), assists (35-13), service aces (9-1), digs (42-24) and blocks (10-2).

Kanani Danielson and Jane Croson shared match-high honors with eight kills apiece.
 
Marcella Braz led LATech with seven kills.
 

New Mexico State 3, San Jose State 0
New Mexico State swept San Jose State 25-23, 27-25, 25-16 in Spartan Gym Thursday. With the win, the Aggies improve to 21-7 overall and 10-3 in WAC play. The Spartans drop to 10-16 overall and 5-8 in the conference. The Aggies have not lost to SJSU since Sept. 29, 1994, and are 22-9 against the Spartans.

NM State hit .274 as a team and held the Spartans to a .140 hitting percentage. The Aggies also had more kills (48-34), assists (43-29), aces (7-5) and digs (49-40). SJSU won the blocking battle, 8-7.

Stephanie Ziegler led the Aggies with a career-high 17 kills and was just one dig short of a double-double. Kelsi Phillips posted a match-high 16 digs and Jennah DeVries ran the offense with a match-high 36 assists and added eight digs. Meredith Hays had 14 kills and senior Kelsey Brennan had a match-high .375 hitting percentage with eight kills.

Hanah Blume paced SJSU with nine kills and eight digs.


Idaho 3, Fresno State 1
Idaho won its fourth straight match Thursday with a 25-23, 20-25, 25-21, 25-23 win over Fresno State. With the win, the Vandals improve to 15-11 overall and 9-4 in the WAC. The Bulldogs fall to 12-14 on the season and 6-7 in the WAC.

The Vandals finished the match with 48 kills and hit .232. Idaho had a 55-49 advantage in digs and a 12.5-8.0 advantage in total blocks. Fresno State had 60 kills in the match and hit .203.

Allison Walker and Alicia Milo both posted double-doubles, as Walker finished with 17 kills and 14 digs while hitting .316, and Milo tallied 15 kills and 10 digs.

The Bulldogs were led by Korrin Wild, who finished with a match-high 19 kills to go with 15 digs for her sixth double-double of the season.


Utah State 3, Nevada 1
Utah State picked up a road win at Nevada in four sets (26-24, 25-18, 16-25, 25-10) Thursday. Win the win, the Aggies, who won for just the second time in 16 matches at Nevada, improve to 12-15 on the season and 7-6 in the WAC. Nevada falls to 5-20 overall and 2-11 in league play with the loss.

Utah State hit .260 on the match, compared to the .141 of Nevada. USU also had 5.5 more team blocks (12.5-7.0) and three more digs (55-52), while Nevada had one more service ace (6-5) but also had six more service errors (9-3).

Shay Sorensen recorded a match-high 14 kills on .524 hitting to go with six blocks, while Liz McArthur added 13 kills and 10 digs for her 12th double-double of the season and 24th of her career.  Ashlan Rogers had a match-best 16 digs.

Elissa Ji and Tessa Lea'ea each had 12 kills for Nevada.

COBRA volleyball net
 

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