HONOLULU — The time for haircuts is sort of over.
Males's volleyball workforce no. three from Hawaii withstood an uneven begin to sweep visiting Sacred Coronary heart, 25-17, 25-13, 25-17, and win 12.th reside sport in entrance of three,834 (5,160 tickets issued) on the Stan Sheriff Heart on Friday evening.
After a rematch with the Pioneers of Fairfield, Conn., on Sunday evening, the Rainbow Warriors (13-1) host the Outrigger Volleyball Invitational subsequent week, adopted by a street journey to rival Lengthy Seaside State to begin Massive West play.
“We're at that time, they're form of struggling to come back in and begin taking part in at a better degree,” coach Charlie Wade stated after his workforce hit .345 and held SHU to minus-.014, large. aspect because of a robust blocking effort led by midfielder Guilherme Voss.
Focus was a possible downside with UH kind of on autopilot for final week's two-game sweep of the second-year Missouri S&T program and a first-time opponent in Sacred Coronary heart (6-10) on the town as an entry from this week.
“Sacred Coronary heart is a good workforce,” Wade stated. “They play a bit completely different type than what we see daily within the coaching room, however they bounce and shoot. It's not such as you'll earn factors simply by displaying up. They compelled us to take some rallies and play. If the block was not nicely fashioned, they’d rating.”
UH had simply seven hits within the first set however discovered different methods to place up factors, even on an off evening for veteran hitter Spyros Chakas, who had 4 kills towards six assault errors in sport two of three units.
Vizavi de Alaka'i Todd put down 10 kills and Voss and Chaz Galloway every had 5.
Voss, who’s counting down the house runs left in his five-year UH profession, stated the trouble was there. He was in six blocks, together with three solo stuff.
“We actually step it up in our personal coaching room,” Voss stated. “Persons are very excited in regards to the coming weeks. So it's very nice to see all of the power.”
Keoni Thiim hit a 78 mph serve within the second set, a quantity that prompted the UH bench to do a double take.
“That's the quickest I've seen him,” Wade stated. “Seventy-eight is an enormous quantity.”
Carlos Santa Cruz led the Pioneers with 10 kills on 22 swings (.318). The remainder of the workforce had 11 kills towards 19 errors.
Brian McInnis covers the state's sports activities scene for Spectrum Information Hawaii. He could be reached at brian.mcinnis@constitution.com.