Twelfth-ranked Stanford had to go the distance to win at No. 13 Florida on a relatively busy Tuesday in the pre-conference NCAA volleyball season.
Also Tuesday, Northern Colorado won at Colorado State, Southeastern Louisiana and Stephen F. Austin both won to improve to 4-0, and what a wild win for UTRGV over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi with some incredible stat lines.
Wednesday’s action shows 11 matches, including AVCA Poll No. 1 Texas of the Big 12 home for No. 4 Minnesota of the Big Ten and No. 3 Louisville of the ACC home for No. 22 Western Kentucky of Conference USA.
Also, Florida State of the ACC is home for Florida A&M of the SWAC and Auburn of the SEC is home for Alabama State of the SWAC.
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AVCA POW: The AVCA national player of the week is San Diego senior Grace Frohiling. The 6-foot-5 right side averaged 3.18 kills and hit .382 in victories over Pittsburgh, Texas A&M and Hawai’i.
STANFORD PREVAILS: The Cardinal (3-0) won 31-29, 25-22, 16-25, 22-25, 15-10. Kendall Kipp had 19 kills but hit .137 as both teams struggled with offensive efficiency. She added an assist, an ace, six blocks and six digs. Caitie Baird had 15 kills, two assists, four blocks and seven digs. Sami Francis had 12 kills, hit .500, and had a career-high nine blocks, one solo. Francis has 22 blocks, 2.0/set, after three matches.
Elia Rubin had 10 kills, three assists, an ace, two blocks and seven digs. Stanford hit .206 and had a whopping 21 service errors and four aces. The Cardinal held a 16-13 blocks advantage.
Florida (3-1), which hit .174 and had seven aces and 12 errors, got 13 kills from Merritt Beason. She added an ace, five blocks and nine digs. Marina Markova had 12 kills, four blocks and three digs. Gabbi Essix had 10 kills, hit hit .381, and had three blocks and a dig. Bre Kelley had eight kills and a career-high 10 blocks.
AROUND THE NATION: Texas Tech swept visiting Tarleton State. Kenna Sauer led with 13 kills …
Line of the night goes to Sarah Cruz of UTRGV. She had 30 kills in a 25-23, 24-26, 31-33, 25-17, 15-9 victory over visiting Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. She hit .393 and had 18 digs, three blocks and two aces for the Vaqueros. Luanna Emiliano had an incredible 72 assists, two aces and 17 digs. Sydney Schoen had 24 digs. TAMUCC had four players with 12 or more…
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