Ladies’s volleyball sweeps Arizona faculties

Stanford’s largest focus was Arizona State senior exterior hitter Marta Levinska, however the Cardinal’s defensive reactions and communication rapidly curbed her skills. “We had defensive plan, and we keyed on her. It was good execution … we executed sport plan,” stated girls’s volleyball coach Kevin Hambly.

Stanford got here again to set two with the identical tenacity as the primary, following Kipp’s ace with three straight factors to acquire a 6-2 lead. The 2 groups went backwards and forwards on factors for the remainder of the set, however the Devils couldn’t cross the Cardinal. After scoring 4 consecutive factors, the Cardinal received set two by a rating of 25-18.

“It was a giant workforce win. Everybody was specializing in their position,” stated Rubin. The gamers alternated with their kills and digs, every including one other layer of success to the sport. Redshirt senior Caitie Baird’s sturdy assaults had been very important, incomes the Cardinal three extra factors to solidify their set two lead.

Set three hit the nail into the coffin for the Solar Devils’ probabilities. The Cardinal scored six in a row in the beginning of the set, ultimately holding the result in 15-6. Regardless of the Cardinal’s sturdy efficiency, a scary state of affairs occurred when key participant Francis was taken out on account of an harm. As of now, in keeping with Hambly, it’s unknown when Francis will probably be again on the courtroom.

With a fast adaptation to this modification, the workforce remained devoted to selecting up a win with senior libero Elena Oglivie’s highly effective ace and extra factors from Rubin, Kipp and redshirt senior center blocker McKenna Vicini (three blocks including to her four-hundredth of her profession and eight kills on a .462 assault). 

“Irrespective of who’s on the market on the courtroom, any six of us, any mixture, we’re all nonetheless very able to getting so far as doable,” stated Vicini.

After a ultimate kill from Vicini, Stanford took house one other win with a 25-14 ultimate set rating. 

Regardless of a four-game successful streak, Hambly stated that the workforce continues to be taking it one sport at a time.

“We go one by one. We will probably be good for Arizona and determine [out] the following sport,” she stated. “You’ll be able to’t look too far forward and you may’t look again.”