Fifth-ranked Stanford finished its Texas trip with a sweep at Rice. In another Texas match on Tuesday, Abilene Christian knocked off Texas Tech; Portland State was without three starters but rallied to beat visiting Utah; and Virginia, Duke and Illinois won.
There are 18 matches on Wednesday’s NCAA Division I women’s volleyball schedule, including quite a few Power 5 teams and in-state battles.
In Nebraska, the fourth-ranked Huskers play their annual match with No. 16 Creighton; in Texas, No. 14 Baylor plays SMU and SFA plays North Texas; Louisiana-Lafayette plays a morning match at LSU; Iowa State plays Iowa; Akron plays Cleveland State; Syracuse plays New York neighbor Cornell and Columbia faces Stony Brook; in Tennessee, Austin Peay plays Chattanooga; in Philadelphia, Villanova plays Penn; and two California unbeatens go at it when Saint Mary’s (6-0) plays Cal (5-0).
Second-ranked Louisville plays at Dayton and No. 13 Washington State plays UC Irvine.
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Stanford (4-1) of the Pac-12, coming off its big sweep at Texas two days earlier, overpowered Rice (2-3) of the American Athletic 25-17, 26-24, 25-21. The Cardinal had three players with eight kills each, Kendall Kipp, McKenna Vicini and Caitie Baird. Kipp had an assist, an ace and nine digs. Vicini had one error in 12 attacks and a block, and Baird had an ace, a block and five digs. Elena Oglive had 15 digs, three assist and two aces. Stanford had eight aces but hit .234, well below its season average of .336. Rice, which has lost three in a row, hit .106. Kaitlyn Knobbe had seven kills …
Texas Tech of the Big 12, which lost the day before to North Texas, fell to 6-3 when it lost 25-21, 25-22, 20-25, 25-13 at Abilene Christian (5-2) of the WAC. Abilene’s Braden Bossier had 14 kills, hitting .393. Sara Carrizales had 27 digs, two assists and two aces …
Portland State (4-3) of the Big Sky beat visiting Utah (2-3) of the Pac-12 20-25, 25-22, 25-20, 25-23. Gabby Hollins led with 18 kills, two aces, a block and 12 digs …
Virginia (4-1) of the ACC battled to a 16-25, 25-21, 21-25, 25-16, 18-16 victory over Old Dominion (4-3) of the Sun Belt. ODU served for match point three times. Virginia, 2-1 in five-set matches this…
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