09-03-2018, 01:35 PM
WVB: I guess I can understand why not many of us watched the Friday night WVB at BYU. Still at work, I kept an eye on it online & missed my TiVo to go back & look at things. The venue was packed and noisy. For all our All-Americans, Stanford was clearly not as good as BYU in the first two games, losing 25-22, 25-20. But they showed fortitude by winning the next two 25-21, 25-20. The final game wasn't close at 15-11. (The final point was properly called after a review of a finger just catching the antenna, but for a moment it looked like Stanford still had a chance at 14-12.)
Despite hitting .394 in the 4th set, Stanford hit .203 for the match.
We went to Plummer a lot. With 51 attacks, she hit .176. The only bright spot was Fitzmorris who hit .385 on 26 attempts. Otherwise, the two teams were close in serving & blocks & digs. My rather uninformed opinion is that our blocking is really down from last year.
I didn't get a chance to watch the next two matches on Saturday, which Stanford won 3-0 each.
Stanford didn't look like a #1 team on Friday night. I believe WVB started slowly last year. I'm hoping that these early matches all result in a better tournament team. While I'll be there for Friday night against Penn State, I'm wary that we need to be better to win. For the first time, I bought season tickets as another guy at work expressed interest and the seats seemed really good, but will be out of town for Sunday & Tuesday's matches.
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MSoc: I'm also not knowledgeable about soccer. The men's game at Maryland was the first I've seen this year's team. Again, this was a Friday night away game that was packed. I see what others said about us not having someone who could finish. We're small and it cost us. In my opinion, Maryland seemed the better team. For the first 3/4 of the game, we spent most of our time on defense
While our defense has now played 900+ minutes without giving up a goal, it seemed like it could happen any minute in that game. Maryland had two players, Bin & Pines, that played very well.
[Update -- I missed that there was a game Monday morning. Another tie, but our scoreless streak is over. 1-1 At least we scored.]
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WSOC: I tried to catch the women's soccer on Sunday morning, but despite the BTN2GO site saying that it was provided free to Xfinity customers, I couldn't get it. Then, last night, I saw that the Big Ten channel was added to my TV channels and then I found a $28 "Bundle Discount" monthly charge was added to my bill ($28 for one channel??). Maybe they thought I'd see "discount" and believe it. I suspect I must have clicked on the wrong button somewhere. BEWARE! Sigh... we hate dealing with Comcast Customer Antagonists.
Despite hitting .394 in the 4th set, Stanford hit .203 for the match.
We went to Plummer a lot. With 51 attacks, she hit .176. The only bright spot was Fitzmorris who hit .385 on 26 attempts. Otherwise, the two teams were close in serving & blocks & digs. My rather uninformed opinion is that our blocking is really down from last year.
I didn't get a chance to watch the next two matches on Saturday, which Stanford won 3-0 each.
Stanford didn't look like a #1 team on Friday night. I believe WVB started slowly last year. I'm hoping that these early matches all result in a better tournament team. While I'll be there for Friday night against Penn State, I'm wary that we need to be better to win. For the first time, I bought season tickets as another guy at work expressed interest and the seats seemed really good, but will be out of town for Sunday & Tuesday's matches.
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MSoc: I'm also not knowledgeable about soccer. The men's game at Maryland was the first I've seen this year's team. Again, this was a Friday night away game that was packed. I see what others said about us not having someone who could finish. We're small and it cost us. In my opinion, Maryland seemed the better team. For the first 3/4 of the game, we spent most of our time on defense
While our defense has now played 900+ minutes without giving up a goal, it seemed like it could happen any minute in that game. Maryland had two players, Bin & Pines, that played very well.
[Update -- I missed that there was a game Monday morning. Another tie, but our scoreless streak is over. 1-1 At least we scored.]
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WSOC: I tried to catch the women's soccer on Sunday morning, but despite the BTN2GO site saying that it was provided free to Xfinity customers, I couldn't get it. Then, last night, I saw that the Big Ten channel was added to my TV channels and then I found a $28 "Bundle Discount" monthly charge was added to my bill ($28 for one channel??). Maybe they thought I'd see "discount" and believe it. I suspect I must have clicked on the wrong button somewhere. BEWARE! Sigh... we hate dealing with Comcast Customer Antagonists.