Colorado State Rams Volleyball Classic - Sept 8, 10 and 11

[1972Shocker]

The Shocks head to Ft. Collins this weekend for 3 matches over a 4 day period.

They play host Colorado State on Thursday, September 8th, at 8:00pm CT. They get they day off on Friday while CSU hosts Texas Friday night. The Shocks then take on the Longhorns at 1:00 pm CT on Saturday.

On Sunday the Shocks play Samford at 1:00pm CT. As @flyingMoose: has pointed out this match is not part of the Rams Classic. Apparently, Lambo was able to arrange for Samford to stop by Ft. Collins for a match on Sunday on their return from Laramie where they finish up a 3-match tournament at Wyoming.

The Shocks played 3 matches in about 26 hours last weekend so this weekend will be a piece of cake for the Shocks. Not sure Samford will have any legs left after playing a game on Friday night and two matches on Saturday in the altitude of Laramie (7,200'). Ft. Collins is at an altitude of 5,000'.

Shocker Match Notes

[1972Shocker]

Hopefully, the success behind the setter the Shocks discovered Saturday against IUPUI and Marquette will become a consistent feature of the Shocks offense. It apparently makes a very big difference in how well the Shocks can operate offensively. Of course, a good pass to start things off is pretty important to making this happen.

Shocks will need this aspect of their game working this weekend.

http://www.kansas.com/sports/college/wichita-state/article100415322.html

[1972Shocker]

Looks like you can tonights match with CSU live here:

http://www.themw.com/page/watch-live

[flyingMoose]

FWIW, here is a link to a thread of the match on Volleytalk, misspelling included.

[flyingMoose]

The play-by-play on the video clearly knows his stuff - no surprise. The video and Mike are not synced - again, no surprise.

[flyingMoose]

Who can tweet the Ram play-by-play guy how to pronounce Emily's last name? @MattLWozniak (I think)

[1972Shocker]

Shocks rally for 4 consecutive points staving off 2 set points at 22-24 to take set 1 26-24.

Shocks passing wasn't great that set. This will be a real grind if we can't clean that up some. Not sure if CSU serving is causing us problems or if we are just off a bit.

Shocks willed they way to win that 1st set.

[flyingMoose]

Set 1

Shockers 26-24 Colorado State

Shocks score the last four points of the set for the win. They hit .265 v .297.

[flyingMoose]

Yes, @MattLWozniak.

"Witchita" corrected in the Volleytalk thread title.

[flyingMoose]

9-5 Shockers in the second set, and the Rams take their first TO.

19-12 Shockers, and the Rams take their second TO.

[flyingMoose]

Set 2

Shockers 25-15 Colorado State

Never that close, .652 v .250 in this set.

The lack of a Ram block prompted Matt to say that it seemed like a hitting line for the Shocks.

[1972Shocker]

The Shocks late Set 1 momentum carried over into Set 2 as the Shocks took a relatively easy 25-15 win to go up 2-0 at the break.

[flyingMoose]

Shockers 9-5 and a Ram TO in Set Three.

[flyingMoose]

17-11 becomes a 17-13 Shocker lead and Lambo takes a TO.

[flyingMoose]

Shockers 21-16 and the Rams take their second TO.