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NCAA volleyball: USC sweeps Ohio State, Pitt tops BYU, national roundup

NCAA volleyball: USC sweeps Ohio State, Pitt tops BYU, national roundup

If it didn’t already, San Diego has everyone’s attention in NCAA women’s volleyball after the 15th-ranked Toreros not only beat but swept No. 8 Ohio State on Saturday. 

Tenth-ranked Pittsburgh scored a big victory at No. 7 BYU as the pre-conference season continued to produce interesting results and plenty of big hitting numbers.

Sunday’s schedule is light but has some top-flight pre-conference matchups, including No. 1 Texas at No. 12 Stanford, the aforementioned Ohio State playing at No. 3, Louisville, No. 13 Florida at No. 4 Minnesota, No. 14 Washington vs. No. 19 Illinois, No. 5 Georgia Tech home for FIU, No. 6 Wisconsin home for High Point, Iowa plays Colorado, and in a battle of 5-0 teams, UNLV plays host to Miami.

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TOREROS SWEEP BUCKEYES: San Diego (4-1) beat Ohio State 25-22, 26-24, 28-26 in Louisville to drop the Buckeyes to 0-3. They opened the season with back-to-back losses to Texas. 

San Diego, which last weekend knocked off then-No. 6 Pittsburgh, hit .297 against Ohio State. Breana Edwards and Grace Frohling had 13 kills apiece. Edwards had an ace, two blocks and three digs, while Frohling hit .407 and had two assists, an ace and four digs. Ohio State’s Emily Londot had 19 kills, hit .378, and had added an ace, a block and three digs.

Nebraska’s Kenzie Knuckles stretches out against Ole Miss/Lauren Penington, Nebraska Communications

BIG TEN: The B1G took some tough losses Saturday, not the least of which was Illinois (1-2) getting swept at Colorado (4-0). The Buffs hit .370 and got 13 kills from Maya Tabron, who added eight digs and three blocks, one solo. Illinois hit .185 … Maryland lost in five to South Florida and Rutgers, which earlier swept Morgan State, lost in five to Towson … 

Second-ranked Nebraska improved to 5-0 with a sweep of Ole Miss, coached by former Nebraska player and coach Kayla Banwarth. Madi Kubik had 13 kills and hit .400 to go with an assist, an ace and six digs. The Huskers hit .330 … 

Iowa was swept by Washington, which got 13 kills from Claire Hoffman, who had two aces, a block and six digs … 

No. 11 Purdue beat Milwaukee in three as freshman Eva Hudson continued to light it up, this time with 21 kills while hitting .395. She had an assist, two aces, two blocks and four digs …vNo. 21 Penn State improved to 6-0 with a sweep at LSU. Anjelina Starck led with 13 kills, an ace, a block…

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