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Boilermaker rematch set for #Mizzou volleyball

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No. 18 Mizzou Volleyball (26-5) advanced to the second round of the 2016 NCAA Tournament on Thursday, sweeping Northern Illinois (25-16, 25-13, 25-20) in straight sets.  The Tigers now 26-5 will advance to the second round tonight against Purdue. Back in to 2013, Mizzou was undefeated at this same point of the tournament and the Boilermakers knocked out the Tigers. First serve is at 6 p.m.

Top Tigers

Melanie Crow: 17 kills on .351 hitting, 4 aces, 4 digs, 2 total blocks, 22.5 points
Carly Kan: 10 kills on .280 hitting, 2 assists, 1 ace, 14 digs (double-double)
Kira Larson: 8 kills on .438 hitting, 3 total blocks
Allysa Munlyn: 6 kills on .500 hitting, 2 total blocks

Other volleyball news:

Truman State made their 16th D-II appearance. They were swept by 15th ranked Ferris State. Rockhurst also swept 3-0 by Saginaw Valley.

Missouri State opens Friday evening in Manhattan, KS when they face Ohio State.  If they win, they’ll play Kansas St./Lipscomb on Saturday.

Missouri State set to face Ohio State in NCAA volleyball tournament

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The Missouri State volleyball team earned an at-large bid to the school’s ninth NCAA Tournament in the last 14 seasons and 12th overall on Sunday, capitalizing on a 26-8 overall record and Missouri Valley Conference regular season championship to continue a memorable 2016 campaign. The Bears will begin tournament play against Ohio State on Friday, Dec. 2, at 5 p.m. in Manhattan, Kan., in a rematch of a Sept. 9 contest won by the Bears in Hammons Student Center.

The other half of the four-team regional pits No. 14 national seed Kansas State against Lipscomb. The winners will play on Dec. 3 at 7 p.m., and the champion of the four-team sub-regional advances to the third and fourth rounds Dec. 9-10 at a site to be determined.

The Bears own five top-50 RPI victories while accumulating their highest win total since 2006, and recently rode a 17-match winning streak into Saturday’s MVC Tournament championship match, which resulted in MSU’s first loss since Sept. 26. Missouri State boasts the MVC Player of the Year in Lily Johnson, the Freshman of the Year in Daniele Messa, and the Coach of the Year in Melissa Stokes. Johnson, Messa and Simone House earned first-team all-MVC honors, and Lynsey Wright is a second-team all-MVC selection.

MSU is 1-11 all-time in the tournament, with appearances in 1982, 1990, 1993, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2015. Missouri State lost to Missouri in Lawrence, Kan., last season, and defeated Arkansas in 2006 for its only tournament victory.

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#Mizzou volleyball will host the 1st and 2nd round, earning 15th overall seed in NCAA tournament

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Wayne Kreklow discusses strategy during the Tigers last NCAA appearance in 2013 (file photo/Mizzou Athletics)

Wayne Kreklow discusses strategy during the Tigers last NCAA appearance in 2013 (file photo/Mizzou Athletics)

Mizzou Volleyball picked up the No. 15 national seed and will host the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday, Dec. 1 and Friday, Dec. 2. at the Hearnes Center.  The Tigers first opponent will be Northern Illinois.  With a victory the Tigers will advance against the winner of Purdue and Iowa State.

The Tigers first match is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. (CT). Purdue and Iowa State will start at 4:30 p.m. (CT).  Thursday evening’s pair of winners will meet on Friday at 6 p.m. (CT) for the chance to move onto the Sweet 16.

Mizzou’s 2016 NCAA Tournament appearance marks its 13th trip to postseason play since 2000. The Tigers have made the NCAA Tournament in each of the past two years, as they reached the second round in 2015.  The last trip in 2013 ended at Hearnes Center in the second round of the tournament at the hands of Purdue, who gave Mizzou their first and only loss that season.

Mizzou went 25-5 this season with a 16-2 mark in SEC play. On Saturday, the Tigers clinched their second SEC Championship in the past four seasons.

#SEC Champions! #Mizzou volleyball caps off remarkable regular season

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No. 22 Mizzou Volleyball (25-5, 16-2 SEC) defeated Tennessee on Saturday evening in the Hearnes Center, 3-0 (25-16, 26-24, 25-16), clinching a share of the 2016 SEC Championship. The Tigers’ superb regular season and conference title marks their second SEC Championship in the past four seasons.

Mizzou owns the head-to-head tiebreaker over SEC Co-Champion, Florida, and will earn the conference’s automatic qualifier bid for the upcoming 2016 NCAA Tournament.

In 2013, the Tigers went undefeated and took a 35-0 record into the second round of the NCAA Tournament and lost to Purdue in four sets.

25th ranked #Mizzou volleyball controls their own destiny after stunning upset over Florida

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The 25th ranked Mizzou volleyball team shares two losses with Kentucky and Florida, but holds the tie-breaker over each team.  Following the Tigers five-set win over the Gators Sunday at Hearnes Center, they can clinch the SEC championship without needing help.

With only two matches left in the regular season, the Tigers can claim a share of the conference title with wins against Georgia (Nov. 23) and Tennessee (Nov. 26).  The Tigers are going for their second SEC championship in four years.

With their thrilling 3-2 (25-18, 23-25, 25-15, 21-25, 15-10) victory over 5th ranked Florida, the Tigers have now won three consecutive wins over Florida teams that have been ranked in the top ten at the Hearnes Center.

Joining Sunday’s peformance were Tigers’ wins in over then-No. 9 Florida on Sept. 30, 2015, and No. 2 Florida on Oct. 20, 2013.

Volleyball scores from pool play, with Saturday’s state schedule for 10/29/16

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Class 1

Valle Catholic def. Northland Christian, 25-17, 25-21

Eminence def. New Haven, 25-19, 25-21

Valle Catholic def. New Haven, 25-17, 25-12

Northland Christian def. Eminence, 25-17, 25-21

Valle Catholic def. Eminence, 27-25, 26-24

Northland Christian def. New Haven, 25-14, 25-14

Class 2

St. Pius X (Festus) def. St. Paul Lutheran (Concordia), 25-9, 25-11

Hermann ties Liberty (Mountain View)- (H) 25-21, (L) 29-27

St. Pius X (Festus) def. Liberty (Mountain View), 25-12, 25-13

Hermann def. St. Paul Lutheran (Concordia), 25-17, 25-12

St. Pius X (Festus) def. Hermann, 25-15, 25-21

Liberty (Mountain View) def. St. Paul Lutheran (Concordia), 25-20, 25-23

Herman def. Liberty (Mountain View), 25-15 (Tiebreaker)

Class 3

Lutheran South ties Pleasant Hill- (PH) 25-13, (LS) 25-22

St. Francis Borgia def. Logan-Rogersville, 25-21, 25-23

Lutheran South def. Logan-Rogersville, 25-18, 25-20

Pleasant Hill def. St. Francis Borgia, 25-18, 25-20

Lutheran South def. St. Francis Borgia, 25-22, 25-21

Pleasant Hill def. Logan-Rogersville, 28-26, 25-19

Class 4

Lafayette (Wildwood) ties St. Teresa’s Academ- (STA) 25-18, (L) 25-19

Francis Howell ties Ozark- (FH) 25-19, (O) 25-23

Lafayette (Wildwood) def. Ozark, 25-22, 25-15

Francis Howell def. St. Teresa’s Academy, 25-17, 27-25

Lafayette (Wildwood) def. Francis Howell, 25-20, 25-11

St. Teresa’s Academy def. Ozark, 25-23, 25-21

Saturday’s Schedule

(9:00 a.m.) Class 1 3rd-place match: Eminence vs. New Haven

(10:30 a.m.) Class 1 Championship match: Valle Catholic vs. Northland Christian

(12 Noon) C2 3rd-place match: St. Paul Lutheran (Concordia) vs. Liberty (Mountian View)

(1:30 p.m.) Class 2 Championship match: St. Pius X (Festus) vs. Hermann

(3:00 p.m.) Class 3 3rd-place match: St. Francis Borgia vs. Logan-Rogersville

(4:30 p.m.) Class 3 Championship match: Pleasant Hill vs. Lutheran South

(6:00 p.m.) Class 4 3rd-place match: St. Teresa’s Academy vs. Ozark

(7:30 p.m.) Class 4 Championship match: Lafayette (Wildwood) vs. Francis Howell

Kan reaches kill milestone as Mizzou volleyball rolls to their 12 straight win

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Carly Kan (photo/Mizzou Athletics)

Carly Kan (photo/Mizzou Athletics)

Mizzou Volleyball (17-3, 8-0 SEC) returned home on Wednesday evening, and swept visiting LSU, 3-0 (25-15, 25-19, 25-19). Our Tigers’ victory pushed their winning streak to 12 consecutive matches.

Senior Carly Kan had a team high 12 kills on .346 hitting. Kan has reached double-digit kills 13 times this year, including six times in Mizzou’s eight SEC matches.  Kan passed the mark of 1,500 career kills. Her total of 1,510 kills ranks 4th-most in Mizzou Volleyball history.

Mizzou closes its two-match homestand on Sunday, Oct. 23, against Kentucky. First serve at the Hearnes Center is scheduled for 1 p.m.

Missouri State’s Johnson picked for USA Volleyball European Tour

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Lily Johnson (photo/MSU Athletics)

Lily Johnson (photo/MSU Athletics)

Missouri State’s Lily Johnson was selected to the U.S. Collegiate National Team Europe Tour roster. The reigning Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year is one of 12 players after National Team Open Tryouts last month. The U.S. team will play in mid-July in Italy and Croatia. Johnson is from Lafayette High School in Wildwood, Mo.

Johnson’s trip will take place July 6-16, with training matches against an Italian Federation Team July 7, July 8 and July 9 near Milan, Italy, before heading to Pula, Croatia, to play in the Global Challenge July 11-14.

The outside hitter became the first MSU sophomore to reach 1,000 career kills and concluded the season ranked 15th in Missouri State history with 1,115 career kills. Johnson had 20 or more kills in 17 matches, 23 kill-dig double-doubles, and completed a school-record streak of 36 consecutive matches with at least 10 kills. She ranked third nationally in kills and fourth in points in the final 2015 NCAA statistics.

 

Rockhurst and Central Missouri volleyball finish near the top in final national rankings

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Rockhurst volleyball with their highest ranking (photo/Rockhurst athletics)

Rockhurst volleyball with their highest ranking (photo/Rockhurst athletics)

The Rockhurst University volleyball team finished the 2015 season ranked fifth in the final American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Division II Coaches Top 25 Poll.  This marks the highest-ever NCAA season-ending national ranking for the Hawks in volleyball. Their highest previous final ranking was 11th in 1999.

The Hawks finished the season with a 34-4 record. Rockhurst captured its first-ever NCAA regional title with a 3-2 win at Ferris State on December 5 and advanced to the national championships in Tampa, Florida before falling to Western Washington, 3-1, in the national quarterfinals on December 10.

Central Missouri Jennies volleyball finished the 2015 season with a 30-5 record and finished the season at No. 11.

Their inclusion in the poll extends the Jennies streak to 384 straight polls UCM has been ranked in the top-25, which happens to be each since the poll’s inception in 1986.

The Jennies’ 30 wins this season are their most since 2013 when they won 33. They have now won at least 30 games in five of the last seven seasons.

A volleyball national championship for @ColumbiaCougars and a historic finish for runner-up @MBUAthletics

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The Columbia Cougars celebrate their NAIA national championship (photo/columbiacougars.com)

The Columbia Cougars celebrate their NAIA national championship (photo/columbiacougars.com)

Congratulations to the Columbia College volleyball team for claiming their fourth NAIA national title and first since 2001, when the Cougars beat Missouri Baptist 3-0 (28-26, 25-16, and 25-21), in Sioux City Iowa.

It was the fourth meeting this season between the two Missouri schools.

The Spartans advanced to the National Championship match for the first time in school history after defeating Viterbo University Saturday morning 3-0 in the semifinal round.

“We worked all year to overcome a lot of things,” said Columbia head coach Melinda Wrye-Washington to ColumbiaCougars.com. “We went through a lot of peaks and valleys, a lot of roller coaster rides, through injuries and sickness to make it here tonight. This group persisted, they never gave up on each other. Their character in practice and the ability to invest in everything they did, physically, mentally and emotionally and invest in their training and have the character to persist through everything that happened to them over the season has just been amazing.”

The Spartans made their first ever national title appearance (photo/mbuspartans.com)

The Spartans made their first ever national title appearance (photo/mbuspartans.com)

Polina Severina and Sashiko Heredia were honored and Penny Liu was named theNAIA Volleyball National Championship Most Valuable Player. In addition, head coach Melinda Wrye-Washington was crowned the NAIA Volleyball National Championship Coach of the Year.

Two Spartans were named to the All-Tournament team: Mallory Dillon and Haley Pouliezos. Pouliezos was also named the NAIA Libero of the Year for the second year in a row.