Women’s Volleyball Falls To UCLA In Second Round Of NCAA Championship – Ohio State Buckeyes
12/5/1999 12:00:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
Dec. 5, 1999%^$
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* Coach Stone: Coach’s opening statement.%^$
* Coach Stone: On OSU’s inability to capitalize.%^$
* Coach Stone: On OSU returning next season.%^$
* UCLA Coach Banachowski: UCLA coach’s postgame clip.%^$
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. – UCLA (27-3), with a 3-0 (15-10, 15-12, 15-10) win over Ohio State (17-12) advanced to the NCAA Central Regional at Penn State next week. The Bruins, behind a match-high 19 kills by Kristee Porter, held Ohio State to a .157 hitting percentage while hitting .255. Joining Porter in double-figure kills for UCLA were Lauren Fendrick with 17 and Elisabeth Bachman with 12. OSU’s Jen Flynn had a team-high 17 kills for the Buckeyes with Rosie Snow and Dana Stearns adding 12 each.%^$
%^$UCLA opened a 6-0 lead in game one thanks to three OSU errors, two kills by Kristee Porter and another by Tamika Johnson. The Buckeyes cut the lead to 6-2 on a block by Dana Stearns and Shelly Draeger and a Stearns kill. Lauren Fendrick’s kill put UCLA up 7-2 and with an Ashley Bowles service ace and two OSU errors took a 10-2 lead. OSU’s Stearns and Jen Flynn combined for a block and with a Draeger ace serve, a kill by Flynn and an UCLA error cut the lead to four for the Bruins at 10-6. The Buckeyes cut deeper into the Bruin lead with a kill by Rosie Snow and one by Suzie Stiling (10-8). A UCLA error and a Stearns kills tied the game at 10. UCLA regained the lead with a Fendrick kill and with three OSU errors reached game point at 14-10. A Stearns kill stopped game point one and a Bruin error stopped game point two before an OSU ball handling error ended the game at 15-10. For the game UCLA hit .314 to OSU’s .174.%^$
%^$Ohio State had a 4-0 lead in game two from a Jen Flynn kill and three Bruin errors. Three Buckeye errors cut that lead to one at 4-3. An OSU block by Dana Stearns and Shelly Draeger made the OSU led two at 5-3 and a UCLA error made it 6-3. Three consecutive OSU errors tied the game at six and a kill by Kristee Porter put UCLA ahead at 7-6. The lead went to 8-6 on an OSU error and reached 11-6 on three kills by Lauren Fendrick. Fendrick’s ace serve made it 12-6, but a Bruin service error sided the ball to OSU stopping the run. OSU’s Suzie Stiling connected for a kill and Jen Flynn added two more to cut the UCLA lead to 12-9. A block by Stearns and Katie Virtue cut the lead to two at 12-10. Tamika Johnson sided out for the Bruins and two OSU errors put UCLA at game point at 14-10, serving for the game. A kill by Stearns sided out for OSU and a UCLA error cut the lead to 14-11. An OSU error returned the serve to UCLA for its second game point. That serve resulted in a side out kill by Rosie Snow and another kill by Snow cut the lead back to two at 14-12. Porter sided out for the Bruins and a Porter kill ended the game at 15-12. The Bruins hit .232 in the game to .140 for Ohio State.%^$
%^$A Rosie Snow kill gave OSU a 1-0 lead in game three and with a UCLA error put the Buckeyes up 2-0. The Bruins responded with five consecutive points off two OSU errors, kills by Ashley Bowles and Kristee Porter and a block by Bowles and Elisabeth Bachman. A UCLA error cut the lead to 5-3 and a block by Shelly Draeger and Sue Calligaris made the lead 5-4. A Bachman kill put the Bruins up 6-4. The lead was cut to one on a Bruin error, but went back to two (7-5) on a Lauren Fendrick kill. Two Bruin errors tied the game at seven, but two OSU errors returned the led to two for UCLA at 9-7. OSU tied the game at nine with a Rosie Snow kill and a block by Sue Calligaris and Katie Virtue. UCLA regained the lead at 10-9 on a OSU error. A Porter kill made it 11-9 and with an OSU ball handling error put the Bruins ahead 12-9. A Buckeye error made the lead 13-9 but an Anne Botica kill cut the lead to 13-10. An Erika Selsor ace serve set match point at 14-10 and Angela Eckmier’s solo block ended the game and match at 15-10. UCLA hit .220 for the game to OSU’s .160.%^$
%^$In the match the Bruins hit .255 to .157 for the Buckeyes. OSU had the advantage in blocks, eight to four while UCLA outdug Ohio State 66 to 57 and had a four to one edge in ace serves.
