VOLLEYBALL: BRUINS HUSKED IN TOURNEY.Byline: ERIK BOAL Special to the Daily News This year's UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX women's volleyball volleyball, outdoor or indoor ball and net game played on a level court. An upright net, 3 ft (or 1 m) high, the top of which stands 8 ft (2.43 m) from the ground for men, 7 ft 4 1/8 in (2. team was bigger, stronger, quicker and healthier than the group that was swept by Nebraska Nebraska (nəbrăs`kə), Great Plains state of the central United States. It is bordered by Iowa and Missouri, across the Missouri R. (E), Kansas (S), Colorado (SW), Wyoming (NW), and South Dakota (N). in the Sweet 16 of last year's NCAA Tournament NCAA Tournament can mean: Men's Sports
Unfortunately for the No. 4 Bruins, none of that mattered Thursday, as long as Sarah Pavan pa·vane also pa·van n. 1. A slow, stately court dance of the 16th and 17th centuries, usually in duple meter. 2. A piece of music for this dance. was on the court for the top-ranked Cornhuskers. Pavan, a 6-foot-5 outside hitter, recorded a match-high 22 kills and added 10 digs as Nebraska rallied from an early deficit to advance to the national final with a 23-30, 30-28, 30-23, 30-28 victory in front of 17,013 at Qwest Center in Omaha, Neb.. Nebraska (32-1) will face No. 2 Stanford (30-3), a 30-12, 30-25, 30-15 semifinal winner over defending national champion Washington (29-5), at 6 p.m. Saturday. Ali Daley (16 kills and 15 digs) and Kaitlin Sather (15 kills and 11 digs) helped the Bruins rally from a six-point deficit in the fourth game to take a 22-21 lead. But Nebraska, which last won a national title in 2000, rebounded to score four in a row -- with Tracy Stalls collecting two of her career-high 17 kills -- and never trailed the rest of the way. UCLA (33-4) surrendered the final four points of the second game, before being victimized by a 12-1 surge in the third to fall behind for the first time all postseason after entering the match having won 20 consecutive games. Nana Meriwether, the nation's leader in hitting percentage, was held to a season-low .190. The senior middle blocker had 12 kills and fellow first- team All-American Nellie See Sooty albatross Spicer finished with 55 assists and 18 digs for the Bruins, who advanced to the Final Four for the first time since 1994. erik.boal@dailynews.com (818) 713-3607 |
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