The Wildcats first road victory was not meant to be, as they lost to Arizona state at Desert Financial Arena on March 7 in five sets by scores of 28-26, 25-12, 16-25, 22-25 and 10-15.
Arizona volleyball beats ASU in straight sets thanks to season-high hitting percentage
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Arizona volleyball used a balanced attack to sweep Arizona State (25-19, 25-19, 25-20) on Friday in McKale Center. Five different Wildcats tallied at least seven kills as they hit .369 as a team, their best mark of the season.
Freshman sensation
Merle Weidt and
Jaelyn Hodge and sophomore
Zyonna Fellows chipped in with eight and seven, respectively.
“Certainly that was one of the real bright spots is that it was our best offensive match,” head coach
Dave Rubio said. “We scored 16 points in each set, that part’s a huge difference for us. So we’re making some strides there. We need to get better in some areas that I think that we can get better at immediately, like serving in out of a timeout. The third set, I think every timeout they called, we ended up missing the serve. So there’s a few things we can certainly clean up, but overall I
It was a tough weekend in the City of Angels for the Wildcats, as the Arizona volleyball team was swept by UCLA by set scores of 25-14, 25-19 and 25-20 on Feb. 28 at Pauley Pavilion.
Although the match looked promising at the beginning, the Arizona Wildcats volleyball team was unable to fend off the No. 15 UCLA Bruins volleyball team losing in four sets on Friday, Feb. 26 in Pauley Pavilion.
Arizona volleyball coach Dave Rubio said he expected his team to start showing improvement in the second half of the season. They’re now 11 matches into a 22-game slate and are definitely doing so.
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