Big West: Hawaii Snaps #12 Cal Poly’s Streak Behind Iosia’s Near Triple-Double

  2 Derek Johnson | October 27th, 2018 | Big West, College - Women's Indoor, News

STANDINGS:

Conference Overall
GP Record Win % PF PA GP Record Win % PF PA Last 10 Streak
Hawai’i 11 10-1 0.909 31 11 20 14-6 0.700 47 28 9-1 Won 5
Cal Poly 10 9-1 0.900 29 5 21 19-2 0.905 60 14 9-1 Lost 1
UC Irvine 8 6-2 0.750 22 8 21 13-8 0.619 48 29 8-2 Won 1
UC Davis 10 5-5 0.500 18 22 22 13-9 0.591 47 39 5-5 Won 4
UC Santa Barbara 10 5-5 0.500 22 19 22 13-9 0.591 50 37 5-5 Won 1
Long Beach State 11 5-6 0.455 20 23 24 13-11 0.542 48 47 4-6 Lost 2
CSUN 9 2-7 0.222 11 23 22 6-16 0.273 30 55 2-8 Lost 5
UC Riverside 8 1-7 0.125 6 21 20 6-14 0.300 31 47 1-9 Lost 4
Cal State Fullerton 9 0-9 0.000 0 27 22 6-16 0.273 23 48 0-10 Lost 15

Big West Roundup: Oct. 26, 2018

HAWAII DEF. #12 CAL POLY 3-2 (14-25, 25-19, 17-25, 25-18, 15-10)

There’s now a tie atop the Big West standings, after the Rainbow Wahine took down Cal Poly for the first time in their last four tries.

The match is huge for Hawaii’s potential NCAA Tournament chances too, while Cal Poly’s shot at hosting took a bit of a hit but is still alive after their first conference loss since 2016 that ends 26 consecutive Big West wins.

It was a great match for Torrey Van Winden for the Mustangs, who logged 21 kills (.283), 10 digs, 7 blocks, 3 assists and an ace – good for her eighth double-double this season. Amazingly, she helped the team hit .281 and out-block Hawaii 19 to 11.5. Part of those numbers were helped because they dominated the sets they won and hit .391, but in the games they lost they hit a combined .195.

Hawaii on the other hand hit just .191, but it was mainly because they were shut down in their lost sets and got it going in the ones they won. They had 21 kills compared to 17 errors (.053) in the first and third, but then posted 42 kills to 14 errors in the other three (.304), including a .526 clip in the fifth. They also totaled more aces (4-1) on less serve errors (4-9) with more digs (65-62) as Norene Iosia (23 assists, 21 digs, 9 kills, .200, 2 blocks) nearly had a triple-double.

Individually for Hawaii, McKenna Granato (17 kills, .214, 5 digs), Angel Gaskin (12 kills, .241, 3 blocks) and Natasha Burns (11 kills, .381, 6 blocks) had double-digit kills. Faith Ma’afala (21 assists, 13 digs) added a double-double as the complement to the 6-2 with Iosia.

Beyond Van Winden for the Mustangs, Madilyn Mercer (9 kills, .350, 11 blocks), Meredith Phillips (7 kills, .500, 7 blocks), Jessica McRoskey (7 kills, .278) and Avalon Denecochea (7 kills, .385, 41 assists, 7 blocks) were all efficient. Adlee Van Winden (6 kills, 11 digs) was held in check by Hawaii though in hitting just .100. Katherine Brouker also added 27 digs.

Next Up: Hawaii hosts UC Santa Barbara fresh off of a season-high in attendance. Cal Poly comes back home after getting the weekend off to play UC Irvine.

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The University of Hawaii Women’s Volleyball team and all their female sports team are nicknamed RAINBOW WAHINE, NOT Rainbow Warriors!

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