THIS WEEK IN HUSKY VOLLEYBALL
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25
Washington hosts Rutgers, 7 pm
Alaska Airlines Arena
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26
Washington hosts Maryland, 7 pm
Alaska Airlines Arena
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SEATTLE — Returning from the road, Washington Volleyball (14-4, 4-4 Big Ten) looks to climb back above the .500 mark in Big Ten play this week as it hosts Rutgers and Maryland for their only meetings this fall. Matches will be back-to-back nights in Alaska Airlines Arena, this Friday and Saturday, both starting at 7 p.m. and both streaming online via Big Ten Plus. The Scarlet Knights come to town first on Friday and the Terrapins visit on Saturday.
Following five road matches in a six-match stretch, the Huskies now have three in a row at home, with Oregon coming in next Wednesday evening, and zooming farther out, UW has seven of its final 12 conference matches still to come at home. The Huskies are currently smack dab in the middle of the conference race, as the only team with a 4-4 record, in 10th-place. UW has an RPI of 29 this week.
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The Huskies snapped a four-match skid in their last match at Michigan State, posting a huge 18 blocks in four sets and hitting .255 while limiting MSU to .148. The Dawgs also outhit Michigan two days prior, with a .333 mark compared to .307 for Michigan, but the Wolverines pulled out two two-point sets thanks to an edge at the service line and UW couldn’t rally back.
Now UW will try to build another win streak first against Rutgers, which has yet to get a win in conference this year, but the Scarlet Knights did take Michigan to five sets in Ann Arbor on Sept. 29. Their past three losses have all been to top-20 teams. Rutgers is hitting .193 on the season and opponents are posting a .236 mark. Alissa Kinkela leads the squad with 3.39 kills per set, hitting .234. Lily Bolen and Lexi Visintine have been stellar servers, averaging 0.45 and 0.42 aces per set, respectively. Natalie Robinson is…
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