galena rambler wrote:
Another convincing 3-1 win for Lewis. Unless the team can make adjustments and win the MIVA tournament, there is the definite possibility that they will not have the chance to defend their title at Stanford. That would be too bad.
Lewis has put up a good block this year and is serving tough. They are not dominating but can have dominating runs. In both of their wins over Loyola, I was not totally impressed overall. Loyola can still put up a good block against Lewis' hitters and they slowed them down enough where a typically efficient Loyola offense would have had the Ramblers prevailing. But Lewis' block along with Loyola hitting out of bounds a lot (which could be attributed to Lewis's block) really did Loyola in along with Loyola not having the passing game they usually have. They had leads late in the 3rd and 4th sets (coming back down 10-4 to lead 22-20 in the 3rd and coming back down 19-13 in the 4th to lead 22-21), but the firepower just wasn't there combined with errors (hitting and serving) late in these sets.
Kudos for the traveling Loyola fans. Depsite the CBI Game 2 occuring simultaneously, there were a good few hundred Loyola fans in attendance. Shout out to Jeff Jendryk's dad who is very spirited during matches. And I just found out he was a former college mascot.
Thumbs down to a couple of Loyola kids who got tossed by John Planek (yes) for apparently being a little too rowdy I presume.