Wahine crush Beach to take over first place
CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL CRUSSELL@STARADVERTISER.COM
The University of Hawaii Rainbow Wahine and fans celebrated their 3-0 win over the Long Beach St. 49ers on Friday at the Stan Sheriff Center.
Senior hitter Annie Mitchem put down 13 kills, hitting .619 with no errors, and No. 15 Hawaii took over first place in Big West volleyball Friday night, sweeping Long Beach State 25-13, 25-15, 25-16 at the Stan Sheriff Center.
Junior middle Emily Maglio added 10 kills and senior opposite Nikki Taylor had five aces for the Rainbow Wahine (17-5, 10-1). The match lasted 78 minutes.
Senior hitter Nele Barber, the reigning conference player of the week, had nine kills and 13 digs for the 49ers (16-9, 10-2).
The victory ran Hawaii’s home conference winning streak to 16. The Wahine host Cal State Northridge (7-15, 3-7) at 7 p.m. Saturday.
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The Wahine had the eye of the tiger tonight.
13k .619 no error. Wow!!!
And the kills were convincing too.
Expected a longer match. Wahine bought their A+ game tonight. Passing was way better.
Mitchem must be getting comfortable on the left, Mags sure made up for the last meeting in Aug.
Burns getting better, and of course Taylor is Taylor. Her aces is running up a tab for me at the end of the season.
Granato had a good night hope she can keep it up.
Hope no let down for tomorrow nights match.
I think the wahine were P’ed off from the last game with them.
It was a good night to get out the pom poms and chant:
Gonna rock it up, roll it up
Do it all, have a ball,
Friday night.
Wow !! That was outstanding !! The Wahine were unstoppable !!
Congratulations Wahine !! I saw a team that was FOCUSED and had that finishing stare in their eyes !!
Well done !!
Probably the BEST match this season. Kills were spread out. Passing a lot better. Blocks unreal. This is prime time. Let’s Go Na Wahine…