Volleyball Today: South Carolina wins at Florida for first time since 1986
The lone upset in NCAA Division I volleyball Sunday was by South Carolina, which not only won its SEC match at Florida, it swept the No. 19 Gators. It marked the first time that South Carolina won at Florida since 1986.
Among the other Sunday results, No. 11 Oregon had to go five to win its Big Ten match against No. 24 Washington and No. 16 USC had to do the same to beat UCLA.
There were, of course, reverse sweeps in this season of the reverse sweeps, as Wichita State did it to visiting Florida Atlantic in the American Athletic Conference and Davidson won a wild one at George Washington in the Atlantic 10 22-25, 20-25, 25-15, 31-29, 15-4.
Bucknell had won 15 in a row, but that streak ended when Colgate won their Patriot League match in four.
Lines of the day: Binghamton got swept in its America East match at New Hampshire but Tsvetelina Ilieva had 25 kills, six aces, nine digs and two blocks and Jill Pressly had 26 kills for DePaul in its four-set Big East win at Seton Hall, hitting .386, to go with three assists, 16 digs and a block.
And Hampton, which won a set for the first time in nine matches, lost in four to UNC Wilmington to fall to 0-19, 0-8 in the CAA.
The new VolleyballMag Super 16 Media Poll comes out later Monday morning and the AVCA top 25 will be announced in the afternoon. Also Monday, ESPN and Big Ten Network analyst Emily Ehman and VolleyballMag editor Lee Feinswog will have their weekly NCAA Zoom.
There are eight matches on the Monday schedule, five in the SWAC, including league-leading Florida A&M (14-5 and, at 6-0, the only team unbeaten in conference play) vs. Alcorn.
The two teams atop the Missouri Valley Conference square off when Drake (10-7, 6-0) goes to Northern Iowa (11-7, 6-0). Also in the Valley, Illinois State is at Bradley.
Seattle U plays Utah Valley in the WAC.
Also in this edition of Volleyball Today are the results of Sunday’s two Athletes Unlimited matches. The last matches of the second week are Monday night.
NCAA volleyball Sunday
A quick run through the teams ranked in either or both the VolleyballMag Super 16 Media Poll and AVCA top 25:
Third-ranked Penn State won a tough one at Indiana 22-25, 25-23, 32-30, 25-22 as Jess Mruzik had 21 kills, nine digs and three blocks, one solo … No. 4 Louisville won in four at Miami behind 18 kills by Anna DeBeer, who hit .4351 and had 13 digs and a block. Miami’s Grace Lopez had 25 kills, hit .362, and had five digs and four blocks … No. 7 Texas swept at No. 12 Kentucky, which hit .089. Reagan Rutherford, who transferred to Texas from Kentucky, had 10 kills, hit .438, and added a dig and two blocks … No. 10 Wisconsin hit .433 — 50 kills with eight errors in 97 attacks — and swept visiting Northwestern. Anna Smrek had 13 kills, hit .500, and had two digs and five blocks …
No. 11 Oregon got 25 kills from Mimi Colyer in its 25-19, 22-25, 19-25, 25-21, 15-12 comeback victory over No. 24 Washington. Colyer, who hit .306, had an ace, 13 digs and six blocks, one solo … No. 16 USC also rallied to beat visiting UCLA 25-16, 18-25, 19-25, 25-21, 15-11. Ally Batenhorst led with 13 kills, three assists, two aces, 11 digs and four blocks and Leah Ford had 10 kills with one error in 18 swings, an ace, five digs and seven blocks, one solo …
No. 19 Florida got blasted at home by South Carolina 25-23, 25-14, 25-18, which beat a ranked team on the road for the first time 2003 and had not never swept a ranked opponent in a true road match since joining the SEC in 1991. South Carolina, which had just two sets at Florida since joining the SEC, got 18 kills from Riley Whitesides, who hit .364 and had two assists, an ace and nine digs … No. 20 Georgia Tech swept visiting Virginia … No. 21 Florida State beat visiting Notre Dame in four … No. 25 Auburn won in four at Mississippi State as Madison Scheer had 18 kills, hit .485, and had three blocks.
Key results and top performances from around the nation:
Michigan won in four at Ohio State despite hitting .184. Allison Jacobs led with 19 kills, seven digs and two blocks … Colorado won in five at its hurricane-delayed Big 12 match at UCF, which got 23 kills from Emily Wilson, who hit .314 and had three aces, nine digs and two blocks. Sydney Jordan led CU with 18 kills, hitting .349, to go with 15 digs and an ace. In the other Big 12 match, Kansas State won in five at West Virginia as Aliyah Carter led with match highs of 17 kills and 11 errors and added four digs and four blocks, two solo … Marquette swept at Villanova as Aubrey Hamilton had 15 kills with one error in 31 attacks to hit .452 and added seven digs and a block …
Georgia got 18 kills and four blocks from Sophie Fisher in a four-set win over visiting Ole Miss, which got 20 kills each from Nia Washington and Shayla Meyer … LSU beat visiting Texas A&M in five as Jurnee Robinson had 23 kills, hitting .327 with an assist, 11 digs and three blocks … Missouri beat visiting Tennessee in five as both Jordan Iliff and Mychael Vernon had 21 kills and two aces each …
Wichita State beat visiting Florida Atlantic 19-25, 20-25, 25-14, 25-23, 16-14 as Alyssa Gonzales had 19 kills, hit .341, and added an assist, two blocks and three digs. Setter Izzi Strand had six kills with one error in 16 tries, 55 assists, three blocks and 16 digs … Also in the AAC, Maria Clara Andrade had 24 kills for South Florida in a five-set win at Tulsa. She hit .305 and had two assists, an ace, 15 digs and four blocks … In North Carolina’s sweep at Wake Forest, Chelsea Thorpe had 16 kills, hitting .519 … Shelby Kent had 22 kills in FGCU’s sweep at Eastern Kentucky. She had 22 kills with two errors in 42 attacks, while her teammates combined for 11 kills with 12 errors in 57 swings … Jacksonville’s Claire Mrukowski also had 22 kills in her team’s sweep at Queens. She had one error in 32 attacks to hit .656 and added an assist, an ace and five blocks … Bryant beat UMBC in five an Brookeyln Talmadge had 11 blocks and six kills with one error in 24 attacks … Davidson’s Isabel Decker had 22 kills, two assists, an ace and 13 digs in her team’s reverse-sweep win at George Washington …
Hawai’i swept visiting UC Riverside as Caylen Alexander had 19 kills, hit .378, and had an assist, two aces and eight digs …
Stony Brook won in five at N.C. A&T and Leoni Kunz had 23 kills, hitting .380, 16 digs and a block … Western Kentucky had to go five to win at FIU to get to 15-6, 8-0 in Conference USA. FIU’s Jillian Huckabey had 22 kills, hit.421, and had an ace, 13 digs and a block … Canisius, which the day before won a reverse sweep, lost in five to visiting Fairfield, which got 18 kills from Allie Elliott, who had one error in 40 swings to hit .425. She added an ace, 18 digs and four blocks, one solo. Maya Walker had 14 kills, hit .364, and had 11 blocks, one solo. Canisius libero Jillian Hanna had 30 digs, an assist and three aces … Yagmur Gunes had 20 kills for Quinnipiac in its sweep of Iona. She hit .514 and had nine digs and a block.
Abercrombie, De La Cruz-Mejias win in Athletes Unlimited
Team (Brittany) Abercrombie swept Team Nootsara (Tomkom) 75-62 before Team (Bethania) De La Cruz-Mejía beat Team (Kayla) Caffey 74-58 on Sunday in Mesa, Arizona.
In the opener, Abercrombie continued to sparkle as she was the leader for the fifth time in as many matches, this time with 16 kills and eight digs.
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In the nightcap, Leketor Member-Meneh was the leader with 14 kills and 10 digs, while De La Cruz had 13 kills and 11 digs.
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The second week concludes Monday night with Nootsara vs. Caffey at 7 p.m. Eastern on ESNPU, followed by Abercrombie vs. De La Cruz-Mejia at 9:30 on ESPN+.
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