Volleyball vs. Indiana Sept 5

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Indiana is 3-0 and in the "also receiving votes" category.  Pretty good squad.  Beat a decent UC Davis team 3-1 in Bloomington.  Leading middle blocker Boersma is a somewhat undersized (6'2") freshman.  Offense is fairly well spread among Alonso-Carcelles (115 attacks), Saris (90), and Tatum (78).  By comparison, Texas is led by Skinner (118) and Wenaas (92), with Rutherford far behind at just 44. 

Time to see if Carlson and the hitters are getting in sync. 

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Starting rotation is Skinner, Ames, Rutherford on the front row.  Halter, Carlson, and Wenaas in the back. 

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Skinner kill.  then rutherford block.  2-0 Texas.  ames serves long.  2-1.

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Singletary kill from the middle.  Carlson with a nice set from an awkward spot.  IU hits long.  4-1.

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Huge smash by Singletary on the slide.  5-1.  Great start.

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Akana ace.  Timeout IU.  6-1 Texas.

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IU off Skinner block out of bounds.  6-2.

Boersma long on the serve.  7-2.

Skinner returns the favor.  7-3.

IU freeball goes wide after Texas had to dink.  8-3.

halter ace.  Wenaas, Ames, and Carlson on front line .  9-3.  Halter back to back aces.  10-3.  IU hits long.  11-3. 

Halter with 3rd ace. 12-3

IU finally ends the run.  12-4.

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Ames with monster cross court on the sllide.  13-4.

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Rutherford cross court off touch out of bounds.  14-4.  IU calls second timeout.

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Wenaas with the kill off a Halter bump set.  16-4. 

Three tries by IU sent back by UT blockers.  Third block fell in.  17-4. 

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Middle hit by IU deflected but fell in.  17-5.

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Foot fault on serve.  18-5.

Wenaas service error.  18-6.

Carlson saved a near overpass to set Ames middle for a kill.  Great play by Carlson.  19-6.

IU off block falls in 19-7. 

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Rutherford smash cross court off block falls in.  20-7.

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Swindle finally in.  Skinner block after Wenaas made a dig with her chest.

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Kahahawai block out of bounds.  21-8. 

Kahahawai kill.  22-8.  She was way off the ground.

Skinner ace.  23-8.

 

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Spoiler

 

Swindle to Singletary in the middle.  Crushed it.  24-8.

Ace by Skinner.  Set to Texas 25-8.

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Unreal stats that set, as one might imagine with a 25-8 score.  Texas hit .625.  IU hit -.083.  Texas with 6 aces.  Singletary with 3 kills on 4 swings.

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Halter made a great dig, but no one covered it.  1-1 Texas. 

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IU ace.  2-1 IU.  Rutherford blocked.  3-1.  IU service error.  3-2.

Skinner saved a errant dig, but Ames Swing long.  4-2.  Rutherford long.  5-2.  IU ace\. 6-2.  Skinner blocked.  7-2 IU.  Timeout Texas.  Total reversal. 

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Skinner with a light-speed cross court shot.  7-3.

Akana hits serve into the net.  8-3. 

IU serve into the net rolls over.  9-3.

Singletary block.  9-4.

 

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Wenaas blocked.  Meltdown right now.  11-4.

Singletary dink on slide goes off block and falls in .  11-5.

Halter ace.  Fourth already.  11-6.

Halter serves long.  12-6.

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Ames blocked on the slide.  13-6.

IU serves long.  13-7.

IU overpass, beaten at the net by Ames.  13-8.

Halter with great dig.  Rutherford dink finds hole in the defense.  13-9. 

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Halter with rare error to spray a dig from a dink.  14-9.  IU service error.  14-10.  Wenaas with another serving error.  15-10.

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IU ace off Wenaas.  16-10.  Skinner with huge kill cross court.  16-11.

IU kill. Ames couldn't get the dig.  17-11

Rutherford kill.  17-12.

Weird point.  IU overpass, Texas wound up dinking, and IU hit long.  17-13.

IU long again.  17-14.

 

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Skinner long.  18-14. 

Skinner not long to dep middle  18-15.

Singletary just hurt a defender with the slide.  18-16.

IU setter with the dump off the block.  19-16.