Region III WVB (SUNYAC, E8, LL, Skyline, U of Rochester)

WLCALUM83 · October 18, 2021, 08:03:46 PM

1st Skyline Final: USMMA over Maritime in 3 sets:
(25-16, 25-10, 25-12)
USMMA: Outhit Maritime .419 to .081 for match. 13 service aces.

2nd Final: Farmingdale State over Old Westbury in 3 sets:
(25-19, 25-11, 25-14)
Farmingdale State: 14 service aces, 5 players with .500 or higher hitting pcts.

3rd Final: Manhattanville over St.Joe's-Brooklyn in 3 sets:
(25-19, 25-22, 25-11)
Valiants: Vital-double double 28 assists, 10 digs.
SJ-Brooklyn: Morales .355 hitting pct.

4th Final: Mt. St. Vincent over Sarah Lawrence in 5 sets:
(25-23, 25-20, 19-25, 23-25, 15-11)

Dolphins: Outhit St. Lawrence .080 to -.038 in Set 5
Schroeder 16 spikes for points, 28 digs
Sarah Lawrence: Pecora 31 assists, 12 digs

The top 3 leaders won, Mt. St. Vincent and Mt. St. Mary are tied for the last in-conference playoff spot. (MSM would win the tie-breaker if that holds up the rest of the way.)
Mount St. Mary has Yeshiva, Old Westbury and Maritime in-conference yet. If MSM wins out, they're in.
St. Joe's LI has Purchase, Manhattanville, St. Joe's Brooklyn and Sarah Lawrence in-conference.

St. Joe's Brooklyn, Old Westbury and Maritime need to win out and get help.

WLCALUM83 · October 20, 2021, 06:10:24 PM

E8 (Hartwick/Sage) on deck:

WLCALUM83 · October 20, 2021, 07:50:00 PM

E8 Final: Hartwick over Sage in 4 sets:
(25-19, 18-25, 25-23, 25-11)

Hartwick: Betalek .417 hitting pct.
Sage: Walker 26 assists

Hartwick gets sole possession of 2nd place in the E8 and clinches an E8 tournament berth with this win.

WLCALUM83 · October 20, 2021, 09:20:19 PM

10/20/21 Region III Rankings:

Team: SOS: RRO: Overall Record:

1) Ithaca .679 Not shown 12-10 (.545)
2) Clarkson .600 14-8 (.636)
3) SUNY-Geneseo .599 11-8 (.579)
4) SUNY-Brockport .572 14-6 (.700)
5) RIT .559 20-2 (.909)
6) Manhattanville .546 12-4 (.750
7) St. John Fisher .526 18-4 (.818)
8) SUNY-Cortland .522 18-2 (.900)

WLCALUM83 · October 21, 2021, 06:03:41 PM

Region III Updates:

SUNYAC: 5 of the 6 playoff spots have been filled. With 1 more win, Oneonta gets the last spot. Cortland, Geneseo, Brockport, New Paltz and Fredonia are also in.

Skyline: USMMA finishes regular season play against Yeshiva. A Merchant Marine win clinches at least a share of the Skyline title. After tonight, they'll be watching Farmingdale State and Manhattanville action. It'll really get interesting should all three squads finish in a first place tie.

WLCALUM83 · October 21, 2021, 08:01:27 PM

1st Skyline Conference Final: Maritime over Purchase in 5 sets:
(22-25. 25-17, 21-25, 25-19, 15-8)

Maritime: Outhit Purchase .278 to .000 in Set 5 to take this match
Purchase: Medina 25 assists

2nd Final: USMMA over Yeshiva in 3 sets.
Merchant Marine hit a sizzling .436 for the match (no lower than .400 in each set).
With this win, USMMA clinches at least a tie for the Skyline regular season title.

3rd Final: Manhattanville keeps pace with USMMA by knocking off St. Joe's LI in 3 sets.
(25-9, 25-16, 25-15)
Valiants: Vital 21 assists .857 hitting pct.
St. Joe's-LI:: Goldstein .250 hitting pct.

WLCALUM83 · October 23, 2021, 03:22:28 PM

Liberty League Final: St. Lawrence over Union-NY in 3 sets.

Bard also lost to RIT, but the Raptors finish conference play above Union-NY with those results.

From what I saw, this is the first time in Liberty League history that the Raptors finish the in-conference season higher than last place.

RIT, Ithaca, Clarkson and St. Lawrence are in the Liberty League Tournament.

WLCALUM83 · October 26, 2021, 06:17:09 PM

E8 Update:

SJF, Hartwick, Nazareth, Elmira and Keuka have qualified for the E8 Tournament.

WLCALUM83 · October 26, 2021, 07:49:28 PM

Keeping tabs on 2 Skyline Conference matches:

St. Joe's Brooklyn vs. St. Joe's LI
Manhattanville vs. Sarah Lawrence.

Final 1: Manhattanville over Sarah Lawrence in 3 sets.
Valiants: 12 service aces, out hit Sarah Lawrence .350 to -.020 for match

Final 2: St. Joe's Long Island over St. Joe's Brooklyn in 3 sets.
(25-23, 25-20, 25-15)

SJ-LI 8 service aces, Goldstein .607 hitting pct.

With those results, Manhattanville keeps the pressure on Farmingdale State and USMMA. St. Joe's LI stays in the hunt for a playoff spot, advancing to 5th place in the standings at the moment.

WLCALUM83 · October 27, 2021, 04:18:16 PM

Quote from: WLCALUM83 on October 20, 2021, 09:20:19 PM
10/20/21 Region III Rankings:

Team: SOS: RRO: Overall Record:

1) Ithaca .679 Not shown 12-10 (.545)
2) Clarkson .600 14-8 (.636)
3) SUNY-Geneseo .599 11-8 (.579)
4) SUNY-Brockport .572 14-6 (.700)
5) RIT .559 20-2 (.909)
6) Manhattanville .546 12-4 (.750
7) St. John Fisher .526 18-4 (.818)
8) SUNY-Cortland .522 18-2 (.900)

Team IDR: SOS: RRO: Overall Record:

1) RIT 23-2 (.920) .555 7-2 (.778) 23-2 (.920)
2) Cortland St. 20-3 (.870) .527 4-3 (.571) 20-3 (.870)
3) St. John Fisher 21-4 (.840) .517 3-4 (.429) 21-4 (.840)
4) USMMA 18-3 (.857) .499 3-1 (.750) 18-3 (.857)
5) Ithaca 14-10 (.583) .658 5-10 (.333) 14-10 (.583)
6) Clarkson 16-8 (.667) .587 4-8 (.333) 16-8 (.667)
7) Brockport St. 14-7 (.667) .566 3-6 (.333) 15-7 (.682)
8) Geneseo St. 13-8 (.619) .589 1-7 (.125) 13-8 (.619)

RIT has the most positive numbers right now. USMMA is in a 3 team dogfight at the top of the Skyline Conference for positioning at the moment.

WLCALUM83 · October 28, 2021, 07:08:15 PM

Final night of Skyline Conference in-conference action:

1st match Final: Farmingdale State over Maritime in 3 sets.
Farmingdale State ties USMMA at the top of the standings.
Both of those squads are watching how Manhattanville does tonight.
A Valiant win and there's a 3-way tie for 1st place. A Valiant loss and
Farmingdale State gets top seed for the conference tournament, having
beaten USMMA head-to-head.

2nd Final: Mt. St. Vincent over Yeshiva in 3 sets.
Dolphins hit .377 and had 18 service aces in this match
Dolphins also end up clinching a spot in the tournament.

3rd Final: Manhattanville over Old Westbury in 3 sets.
Valiants: hit a blistering .480 and got 16 service aces in this match.

Sarah Lawrence/St. Joe's LI still in progress yet. (Winner gets the last playoff spot).
A St. Joe's LI win and you have 4-6 seeds all with 7-4 records (MSM and MSV)
Head to head: MSM: beat MSV, lost to St. Joe's LI
MSV: lost to MSM, beat St. Joe's LI
St. Joe's LI: beat MSM, lost to MSV

Manhattanville, USMMA and Farmingdale State finish in a 3-way tie for the top spot in the Skyline Conference.

Head-to Head: Manhattanville: beat Farmingdale State, lost to USMMA
USMMA: lost to Farmingdale State, beat Manhattanville
Farmingdale State: beat USMMA, lost to Manhattanville

All 3 go 1-1 against each other, and went 1.000 against the rest of the conference.

Developing:

WLCALUM83 · October 28, 2021, 09:37:45 PM

Last Skyline Final:

Sarah Lawrence over St. Joe's LI in 5 sets;
(25-19, 24-26, 20-25, 27-25, 15-11)

Sarah Lawrence: Outhit St. Joe's LI .133 to .034 tp get the win.

4 to 6 Skyline seeds: Mt. St. Mary, Mt. St. Vincent, Sarah Lawrence.
1 to 3 TBD yet.

WLCALUM83 · October 29, 2021, 10:59:49 AM

Top 3 Skyline Seeds are:

1 USMMA
2 Manhattanville
3 Farmingdale State (who gets an opening round match with Sarah Lawrence).

WLCALUM83 · October 29, 2021, 03:32:47 PM

Updates:

Empire 8: St. John Fisher, Hartwick, Nazareth, Keuka and Elmira made the conference tournament.

Liberty League: RIT, Clarkson, Ithaca and St. Lawrence are in.

Skyline: USMMA, Manhattanville, Farmingdale State, Mt. St. Mary's Mt. St. Vincent and Sarah Lawrence are in. (had St. Joe's LI won last night, all 6 entrants would have had to be determined by 3-way tie-breakers. It was wild enough as it was, anyway)

SUNYAC: Cortlland, Geneseo, Brockport, Fredonia, New Paltz, and Buffalo State are in.

WLCALUM83 · November 02, 2021, 10:54:50 AM

Skyline Conference Pre-Tournament Notables:

Teams: Manhattanville is 4th in the nation in Aces/Set (3.27) and 6th in Opponents' Hitting Pct. (.084)-which indicates very positive offense/defense team balance-; Mt. St. Mary's is 7th in the nation in Service Aces (284); Sarah Lawrence led in Digs (1,719): USMMA led in Hitting Pct (.234) and both Assist-related categories.

Players: Mt. St. Mary's Jackie Wolf and Grace Riddle are 2nd and 5th in the nation in Service Aces (82 and 72, respectively), and 12th and 21st in Aces/Set (0.83 and 0.71); Riddle also is nationally ranked in several other offense-related categories. Mt. St. Vincent's Rihanna Rivera led the conference in hitting pct (.356) Mt. St. Mary's Alyssa Barbara led the conference with 441 digs.

Empire 8:

Teams: St. John Fisher and Hartwick lead in most team categories.

Players: Nazareth's Tessa Grover is 9th in the nation in Triple Doubles (3); Hartwick's Toria Betalek led in hitting pct (.346); SJF's Alea Steigerwald led in 3 offense-related categories Spike Points/Set (3,40), Points/Set (4.03) and Total Spikes for Points (316).

Both conference tournaments start play later today.