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Rutherford hit wide. 11-6. Serve long 11-7 Creighton down line long on slide. 11-8. Skinner dink to open floor after long rally. 11-9. Singletary killed an overpass. 11-10. That was an attempt by Creighton to chase a serve return going into the stands, and I thought the Bluejay passed it over the antenna, but Singletary removed all doubt and dented the floor with it.

Creighton shot looked hard enough to break Halter's wrists. Skinner returned the favor from the back row. 10-5. CReighton hit out. 10-6.

through a Wenaas block. 7-3. Wenaas kill. She needed that, because she had our last four swings and put none of them on the floor. 7-4. Creighton kill and ace. 9-4.

Perfect dig and pass by Halter. Nice set, but Skinner hit long. 5-1. Long rally ends with Skinner dink. 5-2. Carlson statrted set by the way. Ace from Skinner. 5-3. Skinner serve long. 6-3.

We have 0 blocks so far. We need that to change. Wenaas dig goes into the stands. 1-0 Creighton. Creighton off block after digging out swings from SKinner and Rutherford. 2-0. Rutherford blocked. 3-0. Rutherford through the block that time. 3-1 Serve error. 4-1.

BTW, Swindle was setting there at the end. And that was her trying to throw it down on point 25.

Creighton hit long after covering Carlson' attempt to throw it down. 25-24 Texas. Skinner kill after Wenaas made a great dig. 26-24 Texas. Great comeback from a 9-3 hole.

Skinner dig goes into the stands. She's not doing well back there this match. 21-18, Singletary goes into the corner from the middle. 21-19. Creighton mishit on a dink attempt. Miscommunication there. 21-20. Creighton hit line off block. 22-20. Singletary murdered on that landed inside the back row spike line. 22-21 Then Ames with the putback of an overpass. 22 all. creighton kill from back row middle. 23-22 Creighton. Ace on return error by Wenaas24-22. Skinner blocked, but carom to Ames who pushed it over. 24-23. Ames dink on slide after Creighton overpassed the serve. 24 all

Skinner from back row. 19-15. Fierce crosscourt from weakside by Creighton 20-15. Serve long 20-16. Ace by Carlson. 20-17. This time the serve was overpassed, but Creighton recovered. Rutherford down line after rally. 20-18. Timeout Creighton

Creighton hit long after rally. 12 all. Creighton middle push shot hit net and rolled over. Creighton serve long. 13 all Skinner blocked. 14-13 Creighton Ace fell between Skinner and Wenaas. 15-13. Creighton off block. 16-13. Creighton off top of fingers. 17-13. Creighton kill. 18-13. Ames breaks the run. 18-14. Creighton kill. 19-14.

Creighton hit long. 11-7. Creighton setter with the kill. I told you she does that a lot. 12-7. Another blast from Singletary in the middle. 12-8. Creighton hit crosscourt wide from weak side. 12-9. Skinner ripped one after Creighton had to free ball. 12-10. Rutherford kill crosscourt after Creighton passed serve over the net. 12-11. Great comeback.

Wenaas dink covered, and Creighton hits off block. 9-3. Ames off block. 9-4. Serve into the net. 10-4. Singletary cross court on slide. 10-5. Strong middle hit through skinner on back row. 11-5. Great center smash by Singletary. 11-6.

Wenaas just sprayed back to back digs, then Skinner hit wide from back row. 8-3

Stands are way, way, way behind the end line, and Creighton almost chased an errant pass into them. 5-3 Bluejays to start.

Creighton is easily deserving of a 2 seed if not better. 31-2 on the season, on a 24 match winning streak. Only losses were 5 set losses on the road to one seeds Nebraska and Louisville. In matches against our mutual opponents, it swept Missouri and Mississippi and beat USC 3-1. Not a team with dominating length. MBs range 6'3" to 6'4" and the primary outside hitters are 6'1". Single setter who is a threat to made a kill--had 111 on the season. Oddly enough, the Creighton Coach is not a bald man. She's 3 time National Coach of the Year Kirsten Booth.

Arky PB and New Orleans still to go. Sad to think NMSU was our second best and Northwestern State will be our third best OOC opponent in Austin.

Man, if only this had been around when I enrolled at UT in 1977.

We scheduled 6 non-conference games against the bottom 25 teams in Pomeroy. We should all tell CDC--Never again.

Yeah, or we could even play a notch above. Sam Houston State, UTEP, UT-Arlington, and whoa! North Texas. Even if SFA is down this year, there are a lot of decent programs in the state that we could play instead of utter crap like Arky PB, Chicago State, Delaware State, etc.

Yeah, I saw Johnson assisting Mark from the get-go. We faced a relatively weak opponent, but it is always good to see 19 assists on 34 made fg instead of Eric Carmen basketball.

Future on the floor--Vinson, Codie, Pryor, and Weaver.

Nah. I never spent my time on the floor flying to the rim to finish or draw contact. I spent most of my career as a pick-up game player laughing that I was picked first by captains over clearly better players solely because they trusted me to bring the ball up and DISTRIBUTE. That was my main thing. Basketball is such an easy game when the point guard keeps eyes open and looks for the guy who is openest and closest to the basket. Duh.

yeah, my typing sucks these days, especially late at night after spending most of the day hacking out a brief.

Weaver with back to back assists. Love it.

Nic Codie proving that interior mores are not his strength.