Live Thread - Volleyball vs. Tulane

by The Beef on Aug 29, 2008 5:23 PM CDT

That's right folks...figured I had a little bit of time, I'd see how Mizzou Volleyball does in their opening match of the 2008 season, coming from BYU against Tulane. Remember, a major rule change this year as sets will only be played to 25 (instead of 30 previously) in sets 1-4, set 5 still goes to 15. How will the fairly young Tiger start their campaign?

Match is underway and Tulane currently has a 19-14 lead with Tulane coming out hot hitting almost .300 and the Tigers not hitting in the positive right now.

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Timeout Tulane as the Tigers have got it back to 23-23

Mizzou now hitting a little better and taking advantage of some Green Wave errors to rattle off five points in a row

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by The Beef on Aug 29, 2008 5:30 PM CDT 0 recs

Tulane takes the first set 25-23

Tigers got back in it with their blocking, with 8 block assists to none for Tulane. Most of the balls went to Wilson, Wang and Klein, who only hit 6 for 29 with 4 errors. Amanda Hantouli took 4 swings with 2 kills. Tulane ended up hitting .154 to Mizzou’s .079

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by The Beef on Aug 29, 2008 5:35 PM CDT 0 recs

Tulane up early 7-6 in 2nd set

a LOT of service errors are plaguing this set so far.

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by The Beef on Aug 29, 2008 5:40 PM CDT 0 recs

Mizzou blocking the heck out of the ball...up 14-12 now

Still not hitting all that well, but Tulane is either scoring or getting it stuffed back in their face.

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by The Beef on Aug 29, 2008 5:45 PM CDT 0 recs

Timeout Tulane and Mizzou is up 22-14

Wendy Wang with a great 2nd set and the Tigers are clicking real well right now.

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by The Beef on Aug 29, 2008 5:53 PM CDT 0 recs

The close out is a little sloppy, but Mizzou wins 25-20

Mizzou now hitting .240 to Tulane’s .173, as Wang is hitting .429 for the match. She, Klein and Megan Wilson have seen 54 of the 67 total attacks. Lei Wang with 18 assists and Vann with 12 digs in the match. In the 2nd, the Tigers hit almost 45 percent to Tulane’s .079.

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by The Beef on Aug 29, 2008 6:01 PM CDT 0 recs

7.9%?!?

Wow, that’s awful. Is it that Tulane just isn’t swinging well, or is the Tiger D just that good?

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by ghtd36 on Aug 29, 2008 6:07 PM CDT up 0 recs

A bit of both..

I think Tulane was having a tough time with the Mizzou block and started forcing things in that frame. They seem to be settling back in a bit in the third.

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by The Beef on Aug 29, 2008 6:11 PM CDT up 0 recs

Tulane up 9-6 in the third

Megan Wilson with a tough set so far with a number of errors.

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by The Beef on Aug 29, 2008 6:10 PM CDT 0 recs

Tigers picking it up, Tulane calls TO still up 17-15

Service errors are plaguing the Tigers at this point, giving away a lot of points to the Green Wave in the 3rd set.

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by The Beef on Aug 29, 2008 6:20 PM CDT 0 recs

good timeout for the Green Wave...they have it to 22-16

Tigers with 13 service errors in the match now to only 4 aces.

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by The Beef on Aug 29, 2008 6:23 PM CDT 0 recs

Late run by the Tigers gets it to 23-21

Brimmage has been big with some more blocks in the middle. Timeout Tulane…will see if they can close it out.

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by The Beef on Aug 29, 2008 6:25 PM CDT 0 recs

24-22 now as Tulane runs off some points

It was actually 22-22 when the last time out was called. Some big points now coming up

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by The Beef on Aug 29, 2008 6:27 PM CDT 0 recs

GREAT finish by the Tigers, take the 3rd 26-24

Brimmage has been big in the middle…Wendy Wang was big to close it out. The Tigers hit only .156 in the 3rd, but Tulane was even worse at -.028 with 12 errors. Mizzou is hitting .212 for the match, while the Wave are down to .111. Freshman Priscilla Armendariz is having a great match with 10 digs in the back to go with Vann’s 14. The Tigers have 15 blocks in the match to only 5 from the Wave.

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by The Beef on Aug 29, 2008 6:36 PM CDT 0 recs

Both teams hitting over .300 in the 4th, Tulane up 9-8

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by The Beef on Aug 29, 2008 6:42 PM CDT 0 recs

Some attack errors by Tulane and a couple of kills by Brimmage

push the score out to 13-10 for the Tigers.

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by The Beef on Aug 29, 2008 6:46 PM CDT 0 recs

Tigers still hitting .346 and have it out to 19-13

Tulane has called timeout…will need to turn it around in a real hurry or they will get cloesd out by the Tigers.

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by The Beef on Aug 29, 2008 6:51 PM CDT 0 recs

HOORAY!

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by ghtd36 on Aug 29, 2008 6:56 PM CDT 0 recs

An ace closes it out...Mizzou wins 25-14

a blocking clinic down the stretch with TWENTY total blocks by the Tigers. They end up hitting a very decent .248 for the match, and right now need to clean up the service errors. They dug very well for the match with three in double digits, as Megan Wilson is a kill short of a double-double. Lei Wang had a great last 3 sets and finished with 39 assists for the match. Wendy Wang with 15 kills to only one error and a 41 percent hiting percentage.

Mizzou moves to 1-0 and will have two matches tomorrow.

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by The Beef on Aug 29, 2008 6:56 PM CDT 0 recs

20 BLOCKS?!?!

Holy crap. If you get three per game, you’re considered a darn good blocking team. But an average of five? That’s getting it done. By the way, I caught Nebraska’s match against Stanford on TV. The Huskers swept, which is very surprising even though it was played in Omaha. Stanford has three hitters as good as anyone in the country, but they lost their setter and I guess it will take them time to find a rhythm (and I believe the Cardinal’s libero, with the last name of Ailes, is related to a former Tiger). Either way, NU will be ultra tough as always.

by Southside on Aug 31, 2008 11:39 PM CDT 0 recs