NCAA VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT: PEPPERDINE BEATS KANSAS IN SHORT ORDER PEPPERDINE 3, KANSAS 1.Byline: Ramona Shelburne Ramona Shelburne is an American sports journalist currently writing for the Los Angeles Daily News. Shelburne was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She attended El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California where she was a class valedictorian. Staff Writer MALIBU - There was no panic on Katie Wilkins' face as she walked to the Pepperdine bench after the Waves dropped the first game of their women's NCAA Tournament NCAA Tournament can mean: Men's Sports
About 100 raucous rau·cous adj. 1. Rough-sounding and harsh: raucous laughter. 2. Boisterous and disorderly: "the raucous give and take of American democracy" Jayhawks fans were cheering after Kansas took game 1 from the fourth-seeded Waves and were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. an upset. But Wilkins, a two-time All-American, took control and pulled the Waves to a 23-30, 30-20, 30-14, 30-23 victory to advance to a four-team regional next weekend at Long Beach State. After hitting -.222 in the first game, Wilkins dominated the second game to turn the momentum for the Waves. She had 11 of her match-high 19 kills in game 2. ``I think the one thing this team has is consistency,'' said Wilkins, the three-time West Coast Conference Player of the Year. ``A lot of teams come out fired up against us and play well in the first game. But we're like, `OK, they can't throw anything else at us.' '' The Waves (27-2), ranked No. 4 in the nation, served the ball short in the second game to try and take Kansas (22-11) out of its offense. It worked. In the first game, the Jayhawks hit .250 and the Waves hit .114. But in game 2, Pepperdine hit .457. ``We knew after watching Kansas last night and seeing them on tape all year that they were a very good team and would come out on fire tonight,'' Pepperdine coach Nina Matthies said. ``But I thought our kids weathered the storm very well and stayed steady.'' Lyndsey Hache hit .464 with 15 kills for Pepperdine. Katy Daly had 17 kills and Breegan Mulligan mul·li·gan n. A golf shot not tallied against the score, granted in informal play after a poor shot especially from the tee. [Probably from the name Mulligan.] Noun 1. added 11. Ramona Shelburne, (818) 713-3617 ramona.shelburne(at)dailynews.com |
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