BYU Nike Invitational

[flyingMoose]

From 10-15, the Shockers tie the set at 17 and Stanford takes a TO.

[shocksrbest]

17 all second set. Keep it up ladies.

[flyingMoose]

18-20 as Alex shanks a serve and the Shocks take their last TO.

[flyingMoose]

The serve-receive goes south (mostly picking on Alex) and the score moves to 18-24 before the Cardinal closes out the set at 20-25.

For the match, .183 v .279.

Grace is now 6-0-8 for .750 and Abby is 4-1-9 for .333, the only percentages above .300.

[flyingMoose]

Set Three

Kora is in the rotation in place of Jordan this set.

[flyingMoose]

A block of Plummer! by Alex and Emma for 9-6 Shocks.

[flyingMoose]

10-8 becomes 11-13 and the Shocks want to talk about it.

Shocks have benefitted from four Cardinal service errors.

[flyingMoose]

The Shockers gain their next tie at 18 but cannot get the lead - until 24-23.

Stanford TO.

[1972Shocker]

My kingdon for a sevice ace!

[flyingMoose]

Shockers serve for the match a couple of times, but Stanford gets the lead at 26-27.

Shocker TO.

[flyingMoose]

An overpass on the serve-receive is hammered back.

Cardinal, 29-27, to take the match 3-0.

[1972Shocker]

Nothing but proud of the Lady Shocks for not backing down agaisnt a team that had them significantly overmatched physically.

[WuDrWu]

Could not be more proud.

[flyingMoose]

Hitting: .250 v .364
Blocks: 4 v 8

Tabitha with eleven kills, Grace, Abby, Megan, Emma, all with six and Alex with five.

[1972Shocker]

Lambo said the BYU will present a different challenge and I got the feeling he thinks perhaps an even tougher challgen tonight. Stanford just uses their lenght and phycicality to over-power opponent but don't particularly do anything special on offense (Lambo did say Stanford serves very tough). BYU, though, will bring a whole other level of speed to the match tonight and that will present some additional challenges.