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Women’s Volleyball: Sacred Heart edges Long Island
by David F. P. [Modest Image Gallery]
FAIRFIELD, CT- Joined in progress would be the word to describe my visit to Sacred Heart as I arrived for their NEC battle with Long Island in the middle of Set 2. Kyle Robinson’s LIU Blackbirds had pulled out to a 1-0 set lead, but Rob Machan’s squad would even things up at 2 at the conclusion of the second frame.
Women’s Volleyball: Long Island tops CCSU in thriller 3 to 2
By David F.P.
NEW BRITAIN, CT- The Long Island University Blackbirds, always a dangerous team in the NEC conference, came up to Detrick Gymnasium to take on the Central Connecticut Blue Devils. It would be exciting, the crowd would get into it and the match would go five sets, and in the end CCSU edged LIU 3 to 2 for the win. Read the rest of this entry
Long Island at CCSU Volleyball Mini-Preview
by David F.P.
In just a few short hours the Long Island and Central Connecticut volleyball teams will take on each other on the CCSU campus in New Britain. Both are undefeated in NEC conference play so as they say often, something will have to give. Here is just a brief preview of each team’s progress so far drawing from stats from the Northeastern Conference. Note that Long Island has not only lost a match in the NEC, but has yet to lose a set. Central has not lost a conference match but did lose to conference opponent Sacred Heart earlier in the year in a non conference match.
Long Island 10-13 (7-0 NEC)
Out of conference wins (Narrow wins in bold):
Seton Hall, Colgate, Siena
Out of conference losses (Narrow losses in bold):
UMBC, Northeastern, Villanova, UConn, TCU, New Hampshire, Georgia, Cincinnati, Northwestern, St.John’s, Stony Brook, Hofstra
Conference Wins: Quinnipiac, St. Francis (NY), St. Francis (NY), Fairleigh Dickinson, Quinnipiac, Sacred Heart, Bryant
Central Connecticut 12-9 (6-0 NEC)
Out of conference wins (Narrow wins in bold):
Hartford, Seton Hall, Holy Cross, Binghamton, Hartford, Bryant, Providence
Out of conference losses (Narrow losses in bold):
Manhattan, NJIT, Manhattan, Fordham, Northeastern, Dartmouth, Sacred Heart (Non-Conference game), Yale, Columbia
Conference wins (Narrow wins in bold):
Quinnipiac, Quinnipiac, Bryant, St. Francis (PA), Robert Morris, St. Francis (NY)
UNH tops LIU in 3 straight hard fought sets.
By David F.P.
STORRS, CT – In their final matches of the tournament for the Long Island Blackbirds and the New Hampshire Wildcats took place in the evening at Gampel Pavilion. UNH would end up a victor in 3 straight sets, but not for a lack of offense from Long Island.
As always with recaps I tend to focus on the offensive, as it it hard enough to follow the fast paced action, but this is not to in any way downgrade the importance of key sets and key defensive plays. I do note defensive saves whenever I have time to right them down.
New Hampshire pretty much led most of set 1 opening up a block, though LIU picked up a point on a Wildcat serve into the net, Taylor Dressing delivered a kill, though Kelsi Klikus responded, following a long rally, the Blackbirds spiked a shot out of bounds, though Lauren Laquerre and Pauline Acres shared a block to regain the lead. Martina Racic hit one home, but Lindsay Fogarty came up with one of her many big kills, and a LIU attack out of bounds put UNH up 3-6. A UNH attack error gave LIU a point, but Acres knocked a ball off the defense and out of bounds. Svetlana Simic picked up a kill, but Fogarty struck again, though Ashley Rice and Simic both picked up kills for Long Island to get within 1. UNH picked up two straight blasts to extend the lead again though following a good save by Chelsey Stanton, Simic scored the kill, though a serve into the net by LIU had UNH still up 8-11.
