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“Best performance” lifts Trevor Crabb, Theo Brunner to AVP Chicago title
Trevor Crabb, left, and Theo Brunner celebrate their Chicago win/Mark Rigney photo CHICAGO — Trevor Crabb and Theo Brunner employed a simple-yet-effective strategy in the title match of the AVP Chicago Gold Series Open on a…
NCAA volleyball: Big wins for JMU, Kansas, GT; key matches Sunday
This is a hurriedly put-together collection of the highlights from Saturday’s NCAA Division I women’s volleyball schedule, a chock-full slate that included James Madison scoring a signature win, a sweep of No. 22 Western…
Sweep: Second-ranked Stanford steamrolls No. 7 Texas
Madisen Skinner serves for Texas/Matt Smith photo AUSTIN, Texas — Second-ranked Stanford simply took it to No. 7 Texas on Sunday. After battling to 25-23, 25-20 victories in the first two sets, the Cardinal cruised in the third 25-15,…
Partain-Benesh, Crabb-Brunner, Scoles-Flint, Cheng Hughes into Chicago semis
Avery Drost/Rick Atwood photo CHICAGO — To assure the most direct path to an AVP Gold Series title during a sizzling and dead-calm Saturday on the sand at Oak Street Beach, the men’s contenders needed to quickly take care of business.…
Klasnic’s skyballs, men’s upsets spice start of AVP Chicago Open
Djordje Klasnic/Rick Atwood CHICAGO — Djordje Klasnic was all but unknown to even heavily invested Windy City AVP fans Friday when he stepped on Oak Street Beach. But with the first skyball he sent soaring into the warm morning air,…
NCAA: Wisconsin survives at Arkansas; BYU, Utah State, S. Carolina, UNH win
While Nebraska was cruising against Omaha, in Fayetteville, Arkansas, top-ranked Wisconsin was getting all it could handle from No. 21 Arkansas and diminuitive Jillian Gillen. Wisconsin rallied from a 24-19 deficit to win the third set,…
Wisconsin sweeps Arkansas; Oregon, BYU, Tennessee, Purdue win
Lizzie Carr of Purdue, left, goes up against Camryn Turner of Kansas/Matt Smith photo Top-ranked Wisconsin was having none of it the second night at Arkansas and took it to the No. 21 Razorbacks. Ninth-ranked Oregon beat San Diego State in…
92,003: Nebraska sweeps Omaha before women’s-sports record crowd
The after-match dance party/Matt Smith photo LINCOLN, Nebraska — If there was any doubt about the importance of the night, the numbers hovering above Memorial Stadium in the post-match light show made the point of the night crystal…
Photo gallery: Matt Smith’s best shots from Nebraska Volleyball Day
VolleyballMag.com photographer Matt Smith drove — drove!! — from Dallas to shoot the Nebraska Volleyball Day festivities and match. These are a collection of his best photos from Wednesday in Lincoln inside Memorial Stadium. If…