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Penn State and Pepperdine are ready to tussle in NCAA volleyball final
Dailybreeze.com ^ | 05/03/2008 03:04:46 AM PDT | By Frank Burlison, Staff Writer

Posted on 05/03/2008 7:53:17 AM PDT by Perdogg

Less than 48 hours after playing like volleyball teams intent on winning a national championship, Penn State and Pepperdine will be back at UC Irvine's Bren Events Center floor today for a 4 p.m. match.

And only one of them can leave the building with national title hardware.

Penn State (29-1), which came to Orange County as the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Championships, overcome a sluggish Game 2 Thursday night to eliminate Ohio State in four games, 30-21, 26-30, 30-22, 30-17, during the first semifinal.

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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: ncaa
Penn State has the chance to do what Princeton Lacrosse did in 1994 and UConn Basketball did in 2004, win National Championships in the same sport for Men's and Women's in the same academic year.
1 posted on 05/03/2008 7:53:17 AM PDT by Perdogg
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To: NittanyLion; GOP_Raider

College sports ping


2 posted on 05/03/2008 7:55:51 AM PDT by Perdogg (Four years of Carter gave us 29 years of Iran; What will Hilabama give us?)
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To: Perdogg

GO STATE!!!!!!


3 posted on 05/03/2008 7:57:09 AM PDT by pnh102 (Save America - Ban Ethanol Now!)
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To: Perdogg

Go Pepperdine.


4 posted on 05/03/2008 10:02:22 AM PDT by fkabuckeyesrule (Do people who say hello at the end of each sentence know how stupid they appear to be?)
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To: fkabuckeyesrule; All

Penn State Volleyball now joins 1994 Princeton Lacrosse teams, 1997 Stanford Volleyball teams, and the 2004 UConn Basketball teams to win same sport NCAA titles in both men’s and women’s titles in the same academic year.


5 posted on 05/03/2008 9:29:30 PM PDT by Perdogg (Four years of Carter gave us 29 years of Iran; What will Hilabama give us?)
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