Sports by Miller

Dear Readers~     Welcome back! This blog will cover Day 1 of the NCAA National Championship Regional match up. This blog will be covering the game between Tennessee and Texas that took place on Thursday, December 7th at 8pm CT in Stanford, California. Coming off of the First and Second Round games, Texas beat Texas A&M in their First Round 3-1 and SMU in their Second Round 3-0 while Tennessee beat High Point 3-0 in their First Round and beat WKU also 3-0 in their Second Round. With it now being the point in the season where if you lose your season is over, let's get into this game between Texas and Tennessee that took place in California to see how that game ended.     Let's start with the game leaders and we'll start with kills. The leader in Kills goes to Texas' Madisen Skinner with 26 while Tennessee's Morgahn Fingall was not far behind with 24. The leader in Aces goes to Texas' Madisen Skinner and Tennessee's Caroline Kerr, each with two, while Texa...

 Dear Readers~     It's time for Round 2 of the 2023 NCAA Women's Indoor Volleyball National Championships. Round 2 will cover the game between Creighton and Minnesota. This game took place in Omaha, Nebraska at the D.J. Sokol Arena at 6:30pm Central Time on Saturday, December 2nd. Going into the game, Creighton was sitting at 28-4 after just beating Colgate in a 3-0 sweep in Round 1. For Minnesota, they went into the game 16-12 after beating Utah State in a 3-0 sweep for their Round 1. Now let's see how the two teams played in their Round 2 game.     The game leader in Kills goes to Creighton's Norah Sis, with 16, followed shortly by Ava Martin, with 15, and Ellie Bichelmeyer, with 12. Minnesota's leaders were Taylor Landfair, with 12, McKenna Wucherer, with 11, and Melani Shaffmaster, with 5. the leader in Aces goes to Creighton's Kiara Reinhardt with 2, while her teammates Ava Martin and Sydney Breissinger, along with Minnesota's Kylie Murr, Elise McGhie,...

 Dear Readers~     The regular season is now over so it's time to see who can make it all the way to the finals and be named the national champions. For Round 1 the game being covered will be Penn State taking on Yale in Lawrence, Kansas at the Horejsi Family Volleyball Arena. At the end of the regular season, Penn State was 21-8 along with a 6-game win streak, with 4 of those being a 3-0 sweep, while Yale was 21-3 with a 17-game win streak and their last loss being on September 15th after they got swept by Northwestern. With 64 teams competing in Round 1 let's get started to see who can make it to Round 2.     Starting off with Kills for the game leaders we have Penn State's Jess Mruzik, with 19, while Yale was led by Audrey Leak, with 15. The leader in Aces goes to Purdue's Mac Podraza, with 3, while Yale's Cara Shultz and Mila Yarich, as well as Penn State's Allie Holland, all had 2 aces each. The leader in Blocks goes to Penn State's Zoe Weatherington an...