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PacWest Notebook / PacWest Standings

ALL-CONFERENCE TEAMS ANNOUNCED

The all-conference teams in volleyball and men’s and women’s cross country will be announced on today’s PacWest Magazine, The Radio Show.

The program can be heard live online starting at 10 a.m. at pacificwestsports.tv.

» Chaminade’s 7-foot center Mamadou Diarra from Mali is the featured athlete on tonight’s PacWest Magazine, The Television Show, at 8 on OC 16.

Also featured is the Brigham Young-Hawaii women’s soccer team, which earned its first postseason berth. The Seasiders were eliminated Saturday by UC San Diego 1-0.

BYUH VOLLEYBALL OPENS TOURNEY

Brigham Young-Hawaii makes its second NCAA D-II National Championship Tournament appearance in three years at San Bernardino, Calif.

BYUH (16-7), seeded eighth, faces regional top seed and national No. 6 Cal State San Bernardino (25-2) in the last of Thursday’s first-round matches (5:30 p.m.). Two years ago, the Coyotes eliminated the Seasiders in the West Regional opening round 3-0.

BYUH has won 10 national titles, eight in the NAIA and two in the NCAA. The Coyotes were 21-1 when winning the California Collegiate Athletic Association for the fourth straight year.

Thursday’s winners advance to Friday’s semifinals. Saturday’s champion advances to the NCAA Elite 8, Dec. 2-4, in Louisville.

PELAYO SHATTERS HPU DIG MARK

Hawaii Pacific’s Kyra Pelayo had the program’s single-season dig record going into Saturday’s season-ending match against Hawaii-Hilo with 556, five more than senior teammate Tricia Yoshimura had in 2008.

Make that margin 47. Pelayo had 42 digs in the Sea Warriors’ upset of Hawaii-Hilo on Saturday to finish the year at 598.

POW AWARD TO FAKA’OSI

BYU-Hawaii junior outside hitter Losaline Faka’osi earned the conference’s final player of the week honor for the season.

Faka’osi led the Seasiders to a share of the PacWest title and — by virtue of the tiebreaker over Hawaii-Hilo — an automatic berth in the NCAA D-II National Championship Tournament that starts Thursday.

In wins over Chaminade and Hawaii-Hilo, she had 27 kills, two aces, one solo block and five block assists.

She also had 45 digs in the seven sets.

HONOR ROLL

» Kelly Balanay, HPU: The senior hitter had 14 kills and eight blocks in the 3-1 win over Hawaii-Hilo, her final match for the Sea Warriors.

» Tara Huckvale, BYUH: The junior middle had 13 kills, 12 blocks and two aces as the Seasiders won twice en route to the conference’s automatic berth in the NCAA D-II tournament.

» Hillary Hurley, UHH: The junior had 49 kills, an ace and seven blocks as the Vulcans finished 1-2 on the road last week, defeating Chaminade 3-0 but losing 3-1 at BYU-Hawaii and at HPU.

 

VOLLEYBALL

FINAL STANDINGS

  W L PCT. GB ALL
x-BYU-Hawaii 13 3 .812 16-7
Hawaii Hilo 13 3 .812 18-5
Hawaii Pacific 12 4 .750 1 18-6
Dixie State 10 6 .625 3 15-9
Acad. of Art 9 7 .562 4 15-12
NDNU 6 10 .375 7 8-15
Grand Canyon 5 11 .312 8 10-19
Chaminade 4 12 .250 9 7-16
Dominican (CA) 0 16 .000 13 3-16

x-NCAA tournament automatic berth

Last week

Hawaii-Hilo 3, Chaminade 0

BYU-Hawaii 3, Hawaii-Hilo 1

BYU-Hawaii 3, Chaminade 0

 

FINAL STATISTICS

HITTING PERCENTAGE S K E TA PCT.
Bush, AA 94 189 49 398 .352
Balanay, HPU 91 263 73 609 .312
Thornquist, UHH 76 172 41 442 .299
Tupola, BYUH 69 105 25 278 .288
Huckvale, BYUH 79 145 46 355 .279
Fitzgerald, DSC 96 231 69 587 .276
McBride, GCU 67 122 47 275 .273
Board, AAU 92 166 64 385 .265
Cubi-Otineru, UHH 74 219 86 517 .257

 

KILL AVERAGE S K AVG.
Hurley, UHH 77 363 4.71
Villamayor, NDNU 86 359 4.17
Yang, AAU 96 400 4.17
Falealiili, Dom 93 291 3.14
Hagemeyer, BYUH 84 254 3.02
Faka’osi, BYUH 85 256 3.01
Cubi-Otineru, UHH 74 219 2.96
Bell, HPU 88 256 2.91
Balanay, HPU 91 263 2.89
Becker, BYUH 80 219 2.74

 

ASSISTS S A AVG
Swenson, UHH 77 83 10.82
Kea, HPU 86 857 9.97
Cheng, AAU 102 992 9.73
Alvino, CU 83 761 9.17
Clark, DSC 90 795 8.38
Preach, GCU 97 825 8.51
Miller, BYUH 74 564 7.62

 

BLOCKS BS BA TOTAl
Fitzgerald, DSC 12 87 99.0
Balanay, HPU 21 72 93
Hill, DSC 16 81 97.0
Huckvale, BYUH 21 66 87.0
Thornquist, UHH 6 70 7.6.0
Tupola, BYH 6 64 70.0

ACES

32: Lacey, BYUH. 30: Bell, HPU. 29: Vine, UHH; Irvine, AAU; Noble, DSC. 28: Fizgerald, DSC. 27: Villamayor, NDNU. 26: Kotoyori, BYUH; Pelayo, HPU. 24: Becker, BYUH

 

DIGS S NO. AVG.
Pelayo, HPU 89 598 6.72
Durbine, GC 109 616 5.65
Jeffress, DSC 97 537 5.54
Kotoyori, BYUH 85 443 5.21
Inamasu, CU 83 400 4.82
Keanini, AAU 102 463 4.54
Vine, UHH 77 342 4.44
Faka’osi, BYUH 85 338 3.98

 

POINTS K SA BS BA TOTAL
Yang, AAU 400 15 5 40 440.0
Hurley, UHH 363 15 7 39 404.5
Villamayor, NDNU 359 27 3 13 395.5
Falealiili, Dom 292 22 7 17 329.5
Balanay, HPU 263 6 21 72 326.0
Fitzgerald, DSC 231 28 12 87 314.5
Bell, HPU 256 30 4 12 296.0
Hagemeyer, BYUH 254 4 3 66 294.0
Faka’osi, BYUH 256 9 3 32 284.0
Cubi-Otineru, UHH 219 17 2 24 250.0

 

BASKETBALL

MEN

Last week

Chaminade 77, Western Oregon 66

Saint Martin’s 79, Hawaii-Hilo 61

Hawaii-Hilo 87, Western Oregon 79

Chaminade 73, Saint Martin’s 58

BYU-Hawaii 94, Taiyun, China 71 (exhibition)

Hawaii Pacific 92, Tanjin, China, 64 (exhibition)

 

WOMEN

Last week

Saint Martin’s 77, Hawaii-Hilo 55

Hawaii Pacific 92, Adams State 72

Saint Martin’s 72, Hawaii-Hilo 57

Adams State 55, Chaminade 42

 

PACWEST CALENDAR

TODAY

BASKETBALL

Men: Brigham Young-Hawaii at Cal State San Bernardino

Women: Hawaii Pacific at Cal State Monterey Bay

 

TOMORROW

BASKETBALL

Men: Hawaii Pacific at Simon Fraser

Women: Chaminade at Pacific Lutheran

 

THURSDAY

VOLLEYBALL

NCAA D-II West Regional: Brigham Young-Hawaii at Cal State San Bernardino

 

FRIDAY

BASKETBALL

Men: Hawaii Pacific vs. Saint Martin’s at Western Oregon/Phoenix Inn D2 Shootout

Women: Chaminade at Central Washington; Hawaii Pacific at Sonoma State.

VOLLEYBALL

NCAA West Regional: BYU-Hawaii/CSU San Bernardino winner vs. UC San Diego/Sonoma State winner at San Bernardino, Calif.

 

SATURDAY

BASKETBALL

Men: Hawaii Pacific at Western Oregon

Women: Brigham Young-Hawaii at Hawaii-Hilo (nonconference), 3 p.m., UHH gym; Chaminade at Northwest Nazarene, Hawaii Pacific at Cal State Chico

CROSS COUNTRY

NCAA West Region Championships: Men and women, Bellingham, Wash.

VOLLEYBALL

NCAA West Regional: Friday’s winners, San Bernardino, Calif.

 

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