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St. Thomas scored a huge Summit League upset Thursday night, knocking off South Dakota State, the last unbeaten team in NCAA Division I volleyball this season. The Jackrabbits (22-1, 11-1 Summit) were down 14-8 in the fifth but sided out and then continued on a 5-0 run to tie it at 14. But St. Thomas (15-10, 7-6) regrouped to win the next two points and come away with a 22-25, 25-22, 25-16, 15-25, 16-14 victory.
Second-ranked Nebraska keeps on rolling. The Huskers traveled to No. 12 Oregon for their first Big Ten match in Eugene and made short work of the Ducks 25-12, 26-24, 25-18 for their 20th win in a row.
Washington went in the other direction, playing its first B1G match not only at No. 13 Minnesota but also against its former coach. The Huskies scored a four-set upset.
The only other ranked team in action was No. 18 TCU, which swept at UCF in the Big 12.
Loyola Marymount is alone atop the West Coast Conference after beating second-place Pepperdine17-25, 25-19, 32-30, 36-34 — for its eighth victory in a row.
Five teams are within a game of each other in the loss column atop the Big West after UC Riverside, which is not one of them, stunned visiting Hawai’i in five for the program’s first victory ever over the Rainbow Wahine. They first played in 1974 an UH was 29-0 against the Highlanders.
Southeastern Louisiana swept visiting Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in the Southland Conference and extended its winning streak to 21.
There were, of course, reverse sweeps. Lamar did it to visiting Nicholls and Houston Christian did it to visiting Texas A&M-Commerce in the Southland Conference, Belmont pulled it off at Evansville (which was playing without NCAA kills leader Giulia Cardona) in the Missouri Valley, and Old Dominion did it at James Madison in the Sun Belt in a wild one, 17-25, 27-29, 25-22, 30-28, 15-10.
Cardona, the senior from Argentina, is likely done for the season after breaking her finger in practice this week. She holds a huge lead in kills in the NCAA with 549, still 56 ahead of Hawai’i’s Caylen Alexander.
Lines of the day:
— Speaking of Alexander, in that aforementioned Hawai’i loss, she had 36 kills, hit .318, and had four assists, an ace and 14 digs.
— Troy won in five at Southern Miss in the Sun Belt and Tori Hester had a season-high 33 kills, an ace, 22 digs and three blocks, one…
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