Tuesday, November 10, 1998

Wahine jump
to number 7

Bown cited

Star-Bulletin staff

Last week's victory over Brigham Young last week meant a double boost for the Hawaii women's volleyball team.

The Wahine moved up two spots in the USA Today/AVCA Coaches poll and, for the second consecutive week, a Hawaii player -- junior Heather Bown -- was named the WAC player of the week.

Hawaii (21-2, 11-2) is ranked No. 7 following its 13-15, 13-15, 15-2, 15-5, 16-14 win over the then No. 4 Cougars. BYU dropped two places to sixth.

The top three spots in the poll remained unchanged as the trio all stayed unbeaten: Long Beach State (24-0), Penn State (24-0) and Nebraska (23-0).

Stanford moved up a spot to fourth while Florida also moved one place into fifth. Wisconsin stayed at No. 8 while Pacific, which upset UC Santa Barbara last week, moved up to No. 9; UCSB fell from seventh to 10th.

Bown, a transfer from UCSB, helped the Wahine to two critical conference wins last week. She had a combined 34 kills, 12 blocks and .342., and ranks second in the WAC in hitting (.406) and kill average (4.58), and third in block average (1.60).

Hawaii hosts Brigham Young-Hawaii tonight at 7 p.m. The Seasiders (24-0) are ranked No. 1 in NCAA Division II, have won their last 60 matches and are 112-1 dating back to 1995.

WAC women

Pacific Division

		Conference Overall
		W	L	Pct.	GB	W	L	Pct.
Hawaii		11	1	.917	--	21	2	.913
Brigham Young	9	1	.900	1	22	2	.917
Fresno St	6	4	.600	4	17	6	.739
San Jose St	6	4	.600	4	18	8	.720
Utah		5	5	.500	5	16	8	.652
Texas-El Paso	2	9	.182	7-1/2	10	12	.455
New Mexico	2	9	.182	7-1/2	8	15	.348
San Diego St	2	10	.167	9	5	20	.200

Mountain Division

		Conference Overall
		W	L	Pct.	GB	W	L	Pct.
Colorado St	10	1	.909	--	21	5	.808
Wyoming		9	2	.818	1	14	11	.560
Nev-Las Vegas	8	2	.800	1-1/2	19	6	.760
Rice		7	4	.636	3	19	8	.679
So. Methodist	4	6	.400	5-1/2	13	13	.500
Air Force	2	8	.200	7-1/2	9	13	.409
Texas Christian	1	9	.100	8-1/2	4	21	.160
Tulsa		1	10	.091	9	9	14	.391

Tonight's match

BYU-Hawaii at Hawaii, 7 p.m., Stan Sheriff Center

AVCA/USA Top 25

NCAA Division I

First-place votes in parentheses

			W	L	Pts	LW
 1. Long Beach (33)	24	0	1,473	1
 2. Penn St (25)	24	0	1,460	2
 3. Nebraska (2)	23	0	1,386	3
 4. Stanford		21	2	1,313	5
 5. Florida		24	2	1,222	6
 6. BYU			22	2	1,185	4
 7. Hawaii		21	2	1,138	9
 8. Wisconsin		21	4	1,057	8
 9. Pacific		20	4	1,038	10
10. UCSB		22	5	955	7
11. USC			17	4	915	11
12. Texas		19	3	877	12
13. Arkansas		22	3	780	14
14. Michigan St		19	4	718	16
15. Colorado		17	4	611	13
16. UCLA		11	10	548	20
17. Kansas St		15	8	465	21
18. San Diego		19	4	440	17
19. Arizona		18	6	388	18
20. Illinios		16	8	367	15
21. L. Marym’nt		16	7	294	19
22. Texas A&M		14	8	219	22
23. Texas Tech		19	8	144	24
24. Louisville		20	4	92	25
25. Minnesota		16	9	90	23

Other WAC teams receiving points: 28. Colorado State 37. t43. Fresno State 1.

Volleyball magazine poll

1. Long Beach State.
2. Penn State.
3. Nebraska.
4. Stanford.
5. Brigham Young.
6. Texas.
7. Florida.
8. Hawaii.
9. UC Santa Barbara.
10. Pacific.
11. Southern Cal.
12. Wisconsin.
13. Colorado.
14. Arkansas.
15. San Diego.
16. Michigan State.
17. Loyola Marymount.
18. UCLA.
19. Kansas State.
20. Northern Iowa.

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