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Post by pointps on Jun 27, 2018 9:20:02 GMT -5
From USA Volleyball, today: U.S. Women’s National Team opened up the FIVB Volleyball Nations League Final Six with a thrilling 17-25, 21-25, 25-21, 25-15, 15-11 come-from-behind victory over Turkey on Wednesday in Nanjing, China. ...Micha Hancock, who also sparked the rally taking over the setter spot for Carli Lloyd midway through the third set. ...Over the course of the final two sets with Hancock setting, the Americans converted 63.6 percent of its attacks with a .545 hitting efficiency (28-4-44)"
Micha has played very sparingly in the tournament, but when she was needed she stepped in and did the job!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2018 11:35:16 GMT -5
Micha's a winner! Great to hear she got an opportunity.
Thanks for letting us know.
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Post by KittanningLion on Jun 27, 2018 14:22:39 GMT -5
For those who missed it...try to watch here before the Flovolleyball cops yank it out.
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Post by traveler on Jun 27, 2018 18:09:27 GMT -5
Wow. Remember watching Bartsch and Dixon play in the B1G and they were very good...but never like this. Both just on fire in this match, including Dixon doing some nice 2s w/Micha.
And Micha up to her old over-on-2 tricks...got better as she went along.
Great match to have under their belts.
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Post by stillkicking on Jun 28, 2018 3:29:23 GMT -5
Micha is a winner in every sense of the word. I enjoyed watching her at PSU. And knew in my heart and soul her fire and passion were the missing ingredient in PSU since she left. Micha may good fortune follow you your entire life.
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Post by elliotberton on Jun 28, 2018 17:17:16 GMT -5
I was excited to finally see a whole match. Using Micha in the double sub deprives her, and the team, from some of the things that make her a unique setter. When she took over at S-1, she was able to hold the middle and got in two excellent full swing kills. She moved the ball around pretty well. However, I thought her major contribution was on defense where she scrambled all over the place to get balls up, including an incredible play to get an impossible ball over the net in Set 5.
Bartsch appears to be killing it in this tournament. Makes one wonder why she did not start the first two sets. Of course Hill is super too, but on this team, going with the hot hand has been the key to success.
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Post by Millennium on Jun 28, 2018 19:55:25 GMT -5
This video got pulled already. I found two better quality videos online.
If anyone wants to watch this match just PM me and I'll send you links (if they're still active).
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Post by KittanningLion on Jun 29, 2018 18:44:47 GMT -5
This video got pulled already. I found two better quality videos online.
If anyone wants to watch this match just PM me and I'll send you links (if they're still active).
Here's USA vs Serbia pool play. Micha in dubsub with Annie Drews. |
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Post by traveler on Jun 30, 2018 13:02:00 GMT -5
Spoiler alert...results of semifinals in China.... scroll down if you want to know...
wait for it
wait for it
wait for it
wait for it
USA over China in 4; after losing first set narrowly, USA wins next 3 easily
Turkey over Brazil in 3
Final July 1 at 19:00 whatever/wherever that is....
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Post by Millennium on Jun 30, 2018 16:32:22 GMT -5
Actually, USA won the first 2 sets and lost the 3rd, then won the 4th, but who's counting. A win is a win is a win! 
I'm happy that a different player is stepping up for TeamUSA every night and is helping the team win.
Micha saved the day against Turkey 3 days ago and contributed in the double sub against Serbia and China.
EDIT:
Volleyball Nations League FINAL -- tomorrow at 7:00 am (ET); 4:00 am (PT) -- USA vs Turkey in the Championship match.
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Post by traveler on Jun 30, 2018 16:42:42 GMT -5
Thanks for cleaning that up!
And, may I add, kudos to Volleymob and its editor Braden Keith. He's got a great blurb about Bartsch's emergence and the fights for gold and bronze tomorrow. Tripped across Volleymob by accident earlier this week and impressed w/the info they have...some of which seems to be crowd-sourced and not super clean (like the post about PSU Nia Grant coming for her senior year...which was several years ago!! They've corrected that to Nia Reed, but in the meantime they also posted about Grant's new pro team.).
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Post by Millennium on Jul 1, 2018 12:43:16 GMT -5
FYI - TeamUSA won gold at the VNL finals today.
Congrats to the entire team for a hard earned victory in 5 sets over Turkey.
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Post by traveler on Jul 1, 2018 12:44:04 GMT -5
Don't know how the setting went; only know that Hill came off the bench for 20 and Bartsch scored 18.
there's a nice highlight reel at volleyball.world
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Post by seeyajohn on Jul 1, 2018 15:29:05 GMT -5
Don't know how the setting went; only know that Hill came off the bench for 20 and Bartsch scored 18. there's a nice highlight reel at volleyball.world Box score shows Lloyd setting the entire match with Micha only playing in a first set double substitution. |
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Post by Millennium on Jul 1, 2018 17:51:58 GMT -5
Don't know how the setting went; only know that Hill came off the bench for 20 and Bartsch scored 18. there's a nice highlight reel at volleyball.world
Carli Lloyd played exceptionally well today.
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