Let the kookiness begin

First round matches! Results! Drama? Some!

First it was Florida International -- and when I say international, I mean INTERNACIONAL -- going down to the wire against Miami. Doing the heavy lifting for the 'Canes were Carico and Williamson, while Los Internacionals spread things out between Yarimar Rosa, Olga Vergun, Jovana Bjelica, and Andrea Lakovic (I hope FIU's P.A announcer gets hazard pay), who had 16, 15, 15 and 10 kills respectively. [insert your own conclusions about the ACC's five-team allotment in this year's tourney, conspiracy theories therein, as well as general tsk-tsking about foreigners]

Then the drama continued with Dayton v. UW-Milwaukee, as the mucho-favorito Flyers were put to the test by the scrappers from the Horizon. Ya' gotta love the play of UWM's setter Kellye Zaporski and libero Lauren Felsing. Well, I do anyway. Dayton wins despite being out-dug, and Fletemier only getting 9 kills in 5 games.

And then, as the East Coast prepared for bed, Colorado State and MTSU played a dilly of a match, with Izabela Kozon's 20 kills not enough to beat the Rams and 15 kills from Danielle "Ft. Collins is way cooler than Lincoln anyway" Minch.

The rest were sweeps except for -- GASP -- The Cauldron _losing_ game one against Northern Colorado? W-w-what? "We got better as the match went," said Jimmy McLauglin. Is that on page 24 of the GM2 manual or...? [flip-flip-flip] Dang, this thing needs an index.

Kudos to TCU, the little horned frog that could, as they win their first round in a sweep over Rice Chex (Rizchex?).