Every day is a new adventure this season in NCAA women’s volleyball.
Thursday, there were only 24 matches, but among them, No. 5 Georgia Tech destroyed No. 10 BYU, Loyola Marymount knocked off No. 22 UCLA, No. 24 Pepperdine escaped Cal Poly in five, and No. 21 Western Kentucky rallied to beat Northern Kentucky and give coach Travis Hudson a milestone victory.
It sets up a Friday loaded with intriguing matches, not the least of which is the gathering in Minneapolis where No. 3 Minnesota plays host to No. 18 Oregon and and No. 11 Stanford plays No. 20 Penn State.
There are other showcase matches Friday in a schedule that is simply too long to count how many matches there are.
No. 6 Wisconsin is at No. 14 Kentucky (which is on ESPNU).
Ninth-ranked Purdue is at No. 4 Louisville and No. 8 Ohio State is in Atlanta and plays BYU.
No. 13 Washington plays Pepperdine and Cal Poly and USC plays at Hawai’i.
Top-ranked Texas is home for Denver.
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GEORGIA TECH TOPS BYU: The Yellowjackets (6-0) of the ACC hit .393 and were led again by Julia Bergmann. She had 20 kills, hit .400, and had two aces, nine digs and two blocks, one solo. Tamara Otene had eight kills in 20 errorless attacks and nine digs. Isabella D’Amico had 25 assists, eight digs and a block. BYU (5-2 ) of the WCC, which hit .181, got 10 kills from Erin Livingston.
LMU SWEEPS UCLA: The Lions (3-3) of the WCC won 26-24, 25-20, 25-19 over visiting UCLA (4-2). LMU won despite hitting .159 and having only 28 kills. Kari Geissberger had eight kills with no errors in 13 attacks, two digs and five blocks, one solo. Audrey Klemp had six kills, a dig and five blocks, one solo.
UCLA, which hit .029 and was without Charitie Luper once again, got eight kills from Iman Ndiaye and seven each from three others.
AROUND THE NATION: Western Kentucky (7-1) of Conference USA beat visiting Northern Kentucky (1-6) of the Horizon League 25-23, 23-25, 25-18, 25-16, 15-9. It marked career win 700 for Travis Hudson, all at WKU.
“I’m glad all 700 of them didn’t go like that.” Hudson said. “What a war, what an absolute battle, but a very important win for our team.”
Four Toppers had 10 or more kills, 18 by Lauren Matthews, who hit .308 and had four blocks and two digs. Setter Callie Bauer had 10 kills with one error in 19 attempts, 39 assists and 10 digs. UNK’s…
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