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27.03.2019 06:15
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - In what only could be described as a marathon outing, the No. 24 Kentucky volleyball team notched its first ranked win of the season, downing No. 20 Purdue, 3-2 (25-20, 25-18, 24-26, 21-25, 20-18), in front of a raucous crowd in Holloway Gymnasium on Saturday evening.Fans got more volleyball than they paid for, with the fifth set going deep into extra play. Sophomore opposite Brooke Morgan had a pair of critical kills to give the Cats two chances to close the match out. Three plays later, junior outside hitter Darian Mack charted one of her 20 career-best kills to even the match at 18-all. Junior defensive specialist Harper Hempel was called upon to serve, delivering two consecutive balls that proved too tough for the Boilermakers to handle, leading to back-to-back serving errors to close the fifth, 20-18.Im really proud of our teams toughness throughout the match, 12th-season head coach Craig Skinner remarked. It easily could have gone either way and our team showed a tremendous amount of guts in the fifth. We had our ups and downs against a very good team. Im really proud of how our outsides performed - they scored a bunch of points and allowed us to win that match.Holloway Gymnasium is one of the toughest venues in the country, Skinner said. I think tonight helped us prepare for more tough road trips down the road this season. With the end result, both the Wildcats and Boilermakers move to 2-1 on the young season. Kentucky will continue the non-conference portion of its schedule Sept. 2, at the USC Radisson Classic, where the Wildcats are set for another top-25 bout, this time against No. 7 Southern California at 11 p.m. ET.As Skinner mentioned, the outsides were impressive throughout. Mack and freshman Leah Edmond both put up 20 kills apiece, hitting .267 and .271 respectively. With both players racking up 20 kills, the duo became the first to accomplish the feat since Nov. 7, 2008, when Sarah Mendoza (24) and Lauren Rapp (23) did so against Ole Miss. Mack also recorded her first double-double of the season by charting 10 digs along with an ace and two blocksJunior middle blocker Emily Franklin also added an impressive stat line, coming one kill short of matching her career best with 12. The Mesa, Arizona, product was extremely efficient, hitting .457 while tacking on a team-high five blocks.Sophomore setter Olivia Dailey was named to the All-Tournament team following a 59-assist performance while adding nine digs, a block and a pair of aces in the five-set thriller. The Trussville, Alabama, native averaged 10.91 assists per set while scoring seven times on kills and acing the opponent on five occasions. Cheap Patriots Jerseys Authentic . Note: The Calgary Flames announced Tuesday that Sean Monahan would not be made available to Canadas World Junior team. 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His 19 birdies over 36 holes in biting chill and swirling wind helped explain how he got there.Even as the weather shifted dramatically Friday at Sheshan International, Matsuyama kept piling up the birdies. One last birdie on the par-5 18th gave him a 7-under 65 and a three-shot lead going into the weekend of the final World Golf Championships event of the year.He is playing very well, said Rory McIlroy, who was six shots behind. And hell be tough to catch.Matsuyama was at 13-under 131 and led by three shots over defending champion Russell Knox (68) and Bill Haas (67). He shouldnt have been surprised by the result because it was his eighth consecutive score in the 60s dating to the second round of the Tour Championship.What made this one so satisfying were the conditions.Rain the past two days gave way to a strong wind when Matsuyama was warming up, and the wind made the sharp dip of temperatures into the 50s feel even worse.I thought maybe just a couple under par would be a good score, Matsuyama said. So Im really happy with how it ended up today. It was windy and cold. The ball, its hard to control. It was tough out there today.It was plenty tough for Adam Scott, who had a pair of double bogeys on the par-5s on his way to an 80. Kevin Kisner, a runner-up at the HSBC Champions last year, made a 9 on the final hole for an 80.Fifteen players still managed to break 70 because of the rain-softened greens, and while Matsuyamas 65 was the best score of the second round, making it even more impressive was that he also had two bogeys. On Thursday, he had 10 birdies against four bogeys.Nineteen birdies ... thats really, really strong, Knox said.Matsuyama already is having his biggest year since he began playing regularly around the world in 2014. He overcame a two-shot deficit over the final two holes and beat Rickie Fowler in the Phoenix Open. He had another top 10 in the Masters. While he went into a summer lull of poor putting -- missing the cut in the U.S. Open and The Open -- the 24-year-old returned to form at the PGA Championship with his best finissh in a major (T-4) and has been steady ever since.dddddddddddd.Two weeks ago, he won the Japan Open for his ninth victory worldwide. He was runner-up to Justin Thomas in Malaysia last week, pushing his PGA Tour earnings for the year to over $4.6 million and moving him to No. 10.The last Japanese player in the top 10 was Jumbo Ozaki during the week of the 1998 Masters.A better attitude has helped this week too. Matsuyama doesnt have much of a record in the World Golf Championships, with his only top-10 at the Dell Match Play a year ago in San Francisco when he reached the quarterfinals only to be blown out by McIlroy.In three previous appearances at the HSBC Champions, he withdrew twice and tied for 41st.I havent really played well here before, Matsuyama said. So before coming here, I was a little bit nervous again thinking, Well, maybe its not going to be a good week for me. But then I decided, Lets just have fun this week. Its made a difference.It didnt look like much fun on Friday, particularly the final hour when the temperature dropped and a light rain fell.This felt like a cold day at Pebble Beach, said Daniel Berger, who shot a 70 and was in the group five shots behind.McIlroy thrived, too, and at least got back into the mix going into the weekend. He figured a 66 would do the trick, and it might have felt like more of an accomplishment if Matsuyama had not gone one better in the second round.McIlroys only blemish came at the reachable par-4 16th, when his tee shot was just right of the green and in a hazard. He found the ball in the bushes and thought for the longest time about playing it, constantly rehearsing a swing to see if the branches would allow him to make contact.A wiser head, and advice from his caddie, prevailed. McIlroy took a penalty drop and got out with a bogey. He made up for it with a birdie on the final hole for a 66 that at least has him in range, though much depends on Matsuyama.Theres definitely some rust in the 71 yesterday. I feel like Ive shaken most of that off, McIlroy said. It should be a good weekend. Im just happy to be in the mix. ' ' ' |
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