Re: Match point, up by 4-points, rally score, home crowd. Match in the bag?
Archibald Q . Leachington 24 April 2005 11:58:47
On 24 Apr 2005 00:53:51 -0700, in rec.sport.volleyball "VolleyballORG@hotmail.com" <VolleyballORG@hotmail.com> wrote:
Match point, up by 4-points, rally score, home crowd, won previous two>games.>
Match in the bag?>
Maybe not...>
Bruins Fall in Five to Matadors>Garrett hammers career-high 24 kills in setback.>
April 23, 2005>
Second-ranked UCLA fell 3-2 to Cal State Northridge in the>quarterfinals of the MPSF Tournament Saturday at Pauley Pavilion.>
Cal State Northridge (19-13) advanced to the MPSF semifinals against>Pepperdine (21-2) on Apr. 28. Sixth-seeded UC Santa Barbara upset>third-seeded BYU 3-2 in Provo, UT. The Gauchos meet the winner of the>Long Beach State-Hawaii match, which began at 10 p.m. (PDT).>
UCLA fell to 25-5, but still has a slim chance to advance to the NCAA>Championship, which it hosts on May 5 & 7.>
The Matadors won 30-25, 30-27, 18-30, 22-30, 16-14 in two hours and>five minutes before 644 fans. They snapped a six-match losing streak to>the Bruins and won their first match in Pauley Pavilion in two years.>
After falling behind by two games, the Bruins stormed back to win Games>3 and 4 on the strength of their serving, blocking and the hot hand of>senior Gray Garrett, who pounded a career-high 24 kills (.476) in 40>swings.>
But in Game 5 with a four-point lead and match point, the Bruins failed>to convert. After a kill by CS Northridge junior Brian Waite cut the>Bruins' lead to 14-11, freshman Isaac Kneubuhl served five straight>points to give the Matadors the improbable victory. A block by Waite on>an attack by UCLA's Paul Johnson cut the lead to 14-12 and the Bruins>called the first of two timeouts. On the next serve, Garrett committed>his second hitting error of the night and the Matadors were down by>one. The Bruins called their last timeout. Northridge setter Jeff>Conover tied the match with a kill, and a kill by junior Cary Hanson>and a block by Waite gave the Matadors a date in the conference>semifinals.>
Senior Jonathan Acosta recorded 12 kills (.476) off the bench for the>Bruins, followed by 11 each from Johnson (.444) and sophomore Steve>Klosterman. Because of an injury to starting setter Dennis Gonzalez,>the Bruins started junior Aaron Dodd and he recorded a career-high 56>set assists and scored 5.5 points on two kills and six total blocks.>Dodd added 10 digs and freshman Libero Tony Ker led the Bruins with 12>digs.>
Senior Nils Nielson led CS Northridge with 28 kills and 30.5 points.>Nielson recorded three kills in the final game. Waite and Hanson each>added 11 kills, and sophomore James Lischer contributed 10.>
Wow, UCLA and BYU get zapped, most likely won't make the tournament.
This could open things up for a certain Jesuit-affiliated university in Chicago, IL that stands at 26-2 to bring a national championship back to Rogers Park.........provided they win their own conference tournament on their home court next weekend....
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