[Mick]

Another loss to UC Irvine, this time in front of 1,423 (big crowd) at Maples. At least it was a closer sweep (23-25, 18-25, 31-33). We had a slightly better hitting percentage (.225) and held Irvine to a .236 hitting percentage. Not bad, actually. We had six more assists (39-33) and they had six more blocks (12.5 to 6.5). And Stanford actually had a few more kills (42-39), but that's because Stanford had more errors (47-31). Irvine had six aces to Stanford's two, and Irvine only had 13 serving errors to Stanford's 19.

Theo Snoey had a great match; 15 kills, 3 errors in 34 sets, .353 hitting average. Wagner had his roughest match in quite a while, 7 kills, 7 errors, 23 chances, .000 hitting average.

Kosty spread the playing time around in the second match. Not sure if he was trying out different combinations or was just resigned, but 12 players got into the match, and ten of those got into multiple sets.

Polls came out today. Stanford dropped one to #9. USC (8-0) squeaked into the Top Five. BYU, with four losses, is #6. This Wed. and Fri., Stanford plays #4 Hawaii.

[Mick]

Another loss to UC Irvine, this time in front of 1,423 (big crowd) at Maples. At least it was a closer sweep (23-25, 18-25, 31-33). We had a slightly better hitting percentage (.225) and held Irvine to a .236 hitting percentage. Not bad, actually. We had six more assists (39-33) and they had six more blocks (12.5 to 6.5). And Stanford actually had a few more kills (42-39), but that's because Stanford had more errors (47-31). Irvine had six aces to Stanford's two, and Irvine only had 13 serving errors to Stanford's 19.

Theo Snoey had a great match; 15 kills, 3 errors in 34 sets, .353 hitting average. Wagner had his roughest match in quite a while, 7 kills, 7 errors, 23 chances, .000 hitting average.

Kosty spread the playing time around in the second match. Not sure if he was trying out different combinations or was just resigned, but 12 players got into the match, and ten of those got into multiple sets.

Polls came out today. Stanford dropped one to #9. USC (8-0) squeaked into the Top Five. BYU, with four losses, is #6. This Wed. and Fri., Stanford plays #4 Hawaii.