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I am sooo far behind on my Twitter trends ... 🤷‍♂️

May I ask if this BOOM thing is something Becky Burke invented; or is it some wider social media phenomenon that lots of people use? Because I have never heard of it before.

Junior right side Stacia Gollogly Photo Credit: Mark Debortoli On Friday night, the UB Women's Volleyball team struggled greatly against Northern Illinois, and was swept by the Huskies 25–20, 25–21 and 25–18. This was the Bulls' fourth loss in the last five matches, all losses via a sweep. The Huskies picked up their 8th straight win. Buffalo could only manage a 0.054 hitting percentage against Northern Illinois. Only one player, senior middle blocker Courtney Okwara, hit above 0.200. Buffalo's other middle blocker, senior Abby Leigh, leading the team in scoring so far this year, only managed 2 kills and only had 12 attack attempts. The problem was that the Bulls passing was poor, and the offense was not in system very often. Fifth year outside hitter Cali Assaley led the team with 9 kills and sophomore outside hitter Katrin Trebichavská had 8 kills. Sophomore setter Mandy Leigh had 23 assists. Okwara and both Leighs had 4 blocks. Mandy Leigh led the team with 16 digs. After that match, where the Bulls led on only one play the entire match, Buffalo fans could be excused if they were totally surprised by what happened next. In the second match, on Saturday, Buffalo responded with some of their best passing of the season, and pulled of a sweep of their own (25–23, 25–22 and 25–21), allowing the Huskies to lead for just three plays during the match. In each set, Buffalo withstood rallies by the Huskies which brought them close to the Bulls late in the set, but Buffalo never surrendered the lead. It was a very poised team response to the Huskies rallies. In the final set, after Buffalo led by 3 at 17–14, the Huskies came back to close within one point at 22–21, but then the Bulls finished the match scoring the last three points, the final point coming on an ace by sophomore libero Maria Futey. The strong passing enabled Mandy Leigh to get her middle blockers and right-side attacker much more involved in the offense. Abby Leigh had 9 kills and just one error on 19 swings, Okwara had 11 kills and just one error on 19 swings and junior right side Stacia Gollogly had 11 kills and just 2 errors. The Bulls hit 0.284 as a team. Trebichavská had 14 kills to lead the team, nine coming in the first set. Mandy Leigh had 18 assists in the first set (a huge number for one set, especially compared to just 23 for the entire previous match), and 44 assists for the match (again, that's a big number for three sets). Futey led the team with 17 digs, while Mandy Leigh had 15 and Assaley had 12. Gollogly and the two middle blockers each had two blocks. The Bulls are now 2-3 in the MAC and 10–7 overall. They play next weekend at Toledo on Friday and Ball State on Saturday. Notes: Trebichavská entered the match leading the MAC in aces and in aces per set, but had a huge number of service errors. In the first match, after two service errors by Trebichavská in the first set, she was replaced in the serving rotation by junior defensive specialist Emilie Davis, who at the time was 8th in the MAC in aces per set. Davis scored an ace on her first serve and did not commit a service error the rest of the way. In the second match, Trebichavská served the entire match, had 1 ace and 1 error. Futey has been putting up some very good numbers since taking over the libero position. She has 51 digs in 12 sets, that's well over 4 digs per set, which would make her 6th in the MAC if you just count games at libero (but she has played other positions, which brings her average down).

Can someone explain this BOOM to me?

Photo of Stacia Gollogly, courtesy of Mark DeBortoli

Photo credit: Mark DeBortoli The UB Volleyball team put together an all-around effort to pick up their first MAC win, a 3–0 victory over Akron. Buffalo snaps a 4 match and 11 set losing streak. The Bulls were led by junior right-side Stacia Gollogly, who got her first start this year at that position and picked up 15.5 points on 11 kills, a team high 2 aces and 5 blocks. She did not commit an attacking error and hit 0.611. Gollogly, however, had a lot of help, as senior middle blocker Abby Leigh had 10 kills, just 1 error and a team high 8 blocks. Fifth year outside hitter Cali Assaley had her best night as a Bull, leading the team with 12 kills, just one error, and hit 0.476. Buffalo won the first set after Akron played even most of the way. At 17–17, Buffalo went on a 4–0 run, three of those points coming on kills from Gollogly. The Bulls would win 25–22. In the second set, the score was 16–15 in favor of Buffalo, and then the Bulls scored the next eight points, four of those coming on kills from Gollogly. That 8–0 run was served by sophomore libero Maria Futey, who has put together long serving runs many times this season. The third set was never close, and Buffalo won easily 25-17. For the match, Buffalo hit a scorching 0.385, as the team's passing was markedly better than a weekend ago at Western Michigan. Buffalo held Akron to just 0.152 hitting. Buffalo had 11 blocks to just 4 from Akron. Sophomore setter Mandy Leigh had 34 assists. Futey led the team with 11 digs. Notes: Sophomore outside hitter Katrin Trebichavská was the only UB player who struggled. She had just 4 kills and hit 0.000, and also 3 service errors. Although Trebichavská leads the MAC in aces, she did not pick up an ace, and in the second set, Buffalo coach Scott Smith took her out of the serving rotation and replaced her with senior defensive specialist Jenna Sonnenberg, who did not commit an service error the rest of the way. Sorry, but I don't seem to have a good picture of Stacia Gollogly. Buffalo returns to Alumni Arena this weekend, facing Northern Illinois in two matches — Friday, September 30 at 6pm (ESPN+) and Saturday, October 1 at 1pm (YouTube). Akron libero Lauren Latka is so popular in the Akron area that they named a potato pancake after her.

Got my tickets today after a call to the Ticket Office. Apparently, I never got the e-mail (they don't know why) but you can access your invoice on-line, I did, I'm in!

Will do when I get home tonight, thanks! 👍🖖

I did not receive anything 😞

https://www.ubbullrun.com/volleyball/2022/9/25/23371009/volleyball-swept-twice-at-wmu

I called the ticket office. They say the ticket renewals will be sent out by e-mail in the next 2 weeks. No paper mail (and probably no paper tickets, so much less time needed to get everyone's tickets to them).

I can recall earlier situations where I did e-mail and got a quick answer. Don't know why this team your e-mail wasn't answered (and answered quickly). 🤷‍♂️

I have had fairly friendly relationships with the ticket office staff, Lori DeFranco (Director of Ticket Operations) and Jill Rexinger-Kuhn (Asst Director of Ticket Operations). I will try to contact one of them in the next day or two.

I have not received a renewal package yet.

Buffalo played well for 3 sets against FGCU, a team that went the 2nd Round of the NCAA tournament a year ago. I consider this a good sign for UB, especially using a backup setter, despite the loss. Please read my complete write-up at: Volleyball Wins 1, Loses 2 in Florida Tournament

I think I know who you are skrabukes, but not 100% sure. Next time you see me, say hello and tell me your screen name 🙂

Got it. Are you in the Buffalo area? Do you watch in person or on the internet? Have we ever met?

Thanks for the compliment. Although I must say the part about "...keep us filled in on UB Women's Sports" is a bit more credit than I deserve, as there are several women's sports that I don't write about. I do attend the occasional UB women's soccer, softball or swimming, but rarely if ever write about them.

The 7-2 Bulls play at Florida Gulf Coast University Friday Sept 16 and Saturday Sept 17. Other teams in the tournament are St. Francis (NY) and Florida Atlantic. The host team went to the 2nd round of the NCAA Tournament last year, and so while I'm hoping for a UB upset, realistically, winning even 1 set would be a good showing for the Bulls. Only the game against FGCU is streamed (on Facebook Live) on Friday at 7pm. Read my story about last weekend's results in which Buffalo swept the WNY Invite Tournament: https://www.ubbullrun.com/volleyball/2022/9/10/23345704/abby-leigh-leads-bulls-to-tournament-title

... and the team that beat UB in the MAC championship game in March. What's going on with Mballa these days? Is he still not 100% after he was out with COVID?

Agreeing with all of your concerns. Adding, I think Fair is injured but still playing with the injury, or is fatigued. And I think Hemphill is fatigued, she too only 8 shots all game. And I think Woolley is also showing signs of fatigue. And maybe Camp too, she only had 1 assist yesterday and took only 1 shot. I have no particular advice for FLJ, she is in a difficult position with only 8 healthy players and two of them aren't really producing (Jordan, Keita) and the rest are playing huge number of minutes.

They are now 5–1 on the season, they beat another Big East team (St. John's), but made just a few too many errors in losing to Cornell. Tough weekend upcoming in Arkansas, they will face three teams all with sub-100 RPI a year ago.

The Bulls are now 2-0, after beating Niagara and Seton Hall yesterday. Add in an exhibition victory over Colgate. Two of these teams are pretty strong teams using last years final RPI (Colgate at 111, Seton Hall at 109).

"Guard-U" got us to the 2nd round of the NCAA tournament, when we had great big men, we never got that far.

Why not both? I love the wings at both places.