-18,-17, -19

it was really a crisp performance. Serving kept the LMU setter off the net all match, and LMU middles non-existent. not a lot of blocks, which was ok, backcourt was picking up so much and a lot frankly easy to dig out.

that backcourt italian, Polish, Irish lawfirm of Jelinek, Barsochinni, and Mahaffey was just fantastic with their sets, and especially served tight hard serves, getting all 8 of the Beach aces, while none of them got aced, and LMU only got one ace.

some errors, service errors and Mad Max-Pola connection on 3 swings, made set 3 tight up to 16 all, REagan won a good challenge (down to her last again!) to overturn a call.

still Reagan, what in hades are you challenging so early in first set when up by 6 anyway when it's not blatantly obvious and just leaving yourself one challenge left. coaching staff does need to talk about challenge strategy. there was no need to burn that first one. minor detail!

LMU looked sharp vs Brown, and Beach a bit so-so, but Beach with their most consistant performance. Johnson got some nice swings for needed kills last couple of sets.

team has two really solid wins vs. Utah & LMU now, and is a legit top 50 team. now see if they can back it up on tough road trip to Wazzou will will likely contend for the Pac-12 championship.

other thing is Mad Max first sets setting was about the best this year, and she limited her attacking, really nice sets to Hope and again showed that Hamaker middle attack with the fake slide going on. have to credit players and staff making the offense tough to read. hitting high 0.200s vs a quality team

team is looking pretty exciting so far. still cannot believe how much growth in Hamaker's game, some of the best year to year improvement that can happen. She is throwing Haymakers out there.