11-11-2017, 10:44 PM
Cardinal salvaged what could've been a lost weekend in the northwest with a gritty and not-very-pretty win in the Palouse, -losing the first 19-25 before gutting out a 32-30, 25-16, 25-21 win.
Serving again an issue - 3 aces against 13 services errors. Outblocked and had 24 attack errors - WSU only hit .169 and took us to four sets. Plummer with 9 and Merete with 7 (to hit -.056 for the match).
McClure and Fitzmorris had much better matches, in part making up for Lutz and Plummer's sub-par nights. Also much better serve receive, at least as far as not giving up aces, than against the Huskies - but it didn't look like we were getting a lot of in-system passes to Gray. A lot of the serve receive passes were well off the net.
That being said, getting a win in the Palouse, after the hard match in Seattle, is a relief. LA schools next, then Utah, all at home, followed by the road finale in Berkeley. If Stanford doesn't win out, they really could lose out on a #1 seed and regional preference to Maples.
VG
Serving again an issue - 3 aces against 13 services errors. Outblocked and had 24 attack errors - WSU only hit .169 and took us to four sets. Plummer with 9 and Merete with 7 (to hit -.056 for the match).
McClure and Fitzmorris had much better matches, in part making up for Lutz and Plummer's sub-par nights. Also much better serve receive, at least as far as not giving up aces, than against the Huskies - but it didn't look like we were getting a lot of in-system passes to Gray. A lot of the serve receive passes were well off the net.
That being said, getting a win in the Palouse, after the hard match in Seattle, is a relief. LA schools next, then Utah, all at home, followed by the road finale in Berkeley. If Stanford doesn't win out, they really could lose out on a #1 seed and regional preference to Maples.
VG