Women’s Volleyball Rallies For 3-2 Victory Over Rice – Ohio State Buckeyes
9/14/2003 12:00:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
Sept. 14, 2003
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State (4-2) women’s volleyball team, trailing Rice (6-5) 2-1 in games, rallied in games four and five to defeat the Owls, 3-2 (30-21, 27-30, 21-30, 30-27, 15-12) in the second day of play at the Mizuno Classic in Provo, Utah. Buckeye Stacey Gordon (Jr., Oshawa, Ontario), an All-Tournament selection, continued to power the offense with a match-high 32 kills. OSU’s Amanda Miller (So., Littleton, Colo.) contributed 15 kills with Heather Whalen (Sr., Kalamazoo, Mich.) adding 12. Rice’s Lindsey Carter scored a career-high 25 kills while Rebeca Pazo added 19 and Julie Jackman, 10.
Ohio State, with kills by Gordon and Katherine Grant (So., Nashville, Tenn.) opened up a 13-12 lead in game one. The Buckeyes expanded the lead to win 30-21. OSU hit .395 for the game to .282 for Rice.
Tied at 11 in game two, Rice took a 15-11 with four consecutive points. OSU rallied from tailing 17-13 to tie the game on a Katherine Grant (So., Nashville, Tenn.) kill. Tied at 19, Rice outscored OSU 8-2 to take a 27-22 lead. Trailing 29-25, OSU with a Miller kill and an Owl error cut the margin to 29-27 but a Pazo kill ended the game at 30-27. Rice hit .361 for the game to .196 for Ohio State.
Rice opened game three with three OSU errors. The Owls built up a 10-3 lead. With OSU trailing, 11-4, the Buckeye outscored the Owls, 8-2 to close to 13-12. Rice held a 17-16 lead only to outscore the Buckeyes, 13-5, to win 30-21 and take a 2-1 lead in the match. Rice hit .464 for the game to OSU’s .093.
Ohio State fell behind 7-3 in game four before two Buckeye kills from Miller, one from Briana McCarthy (Fr., Beaver Dam, Wis.) and an Owl error tied the game at seven. Tied at eight, back-to-back blocks by D’wan Shackleford (Sr., Newark, Ohio) and McCarthy gave OSU a 10-8 lead. After ties at 14, 15 and 18, a Gordon kill and an Owl error gave the Buckeyes a 20-18 lead. Rice tied the game at 24 but a Whalen kill, a Shackleford-Miller block and a Rice error opened up a 27-24 Ohio State lead. A Buckeye error cut the OSU lead to 27-25 but a McCarthy kill and a Shackleford-McCarthy block set game point at 29-25. Rice cut the lead to 29-27 but Gordon’s kill won the game at 30-27 to tie the match at two games each. The Buckeyes hit .238 for the game to .079 for Rice.
Game five opened up with five consecutive points by Rice. A Shackleford-McCarthy block and a McCarthy kill cut the lead to 5-2. Two Rice kills and one from OSU’s Gordon made it 7-3. OSU closed to 7-6 with kills from Whalen and Miller and a Whalen-Grant block. Following a Rice kill, a Whalen kill and an Owl error tied the game at eight. A Buckeye error and a Miller kill made it nine-all. Rice, with a Carter kill took a 10-9 lead, but Gordon answered with a kill to tie the game at 10. OSU took an 11-10 lead with a Shackleford-McCarthy block. Carter’s kill tied the game at 11. Gordon and Carter exchanged kills to a 12-all tie. Gordon, with a kill returned the lead to OSU at 13-12. The Buckeyes closed out the game with back-to-back blocks by Gordon and Grant to take game five, 15-12. For the game, Ohio State hit .261 to .143 for Rice.
For the match Rice outhit Ohio State, .265 to .229. The Buckeyes had an 82-68 advantage in kills while the Buckeyes had a 4-2 margin in ace serves. OSU gave up 10 service errors to nine for the Owls. Ohio State edged Rice in digs, 62-61. OSU’s Anna Tengnas (Fr., Hyltebruk, Sweden) picked up a match-high 17 digs with Gordon and Whalen adding 14 each. At the net, the Owls edged the Buckeyes 14 to 13 in blocks. OSU’s Shackleford with seven blocks (1-6) shared match-high honors with Rice’s Catherine Dupont (1-6) and Tessa Kuykendall (0-7). Buckeye setter McCarthy had a career-high 66 assists in the match while Owl Kristina Hoban recorded 60.
Ohio State faces Miami (Ohio), in Oxford, at 7 p.m. Wednesday and closes out the non-conference schedule with a 7 p.m. home contest against Bowling Green Saturday in St. John Arena.
Volleyball Box Score 2003 Ohio State Women’s Volleyball Ohio State vs Rice (Sep 13, 2003 at Brigham Young Univ.)
Ohio State | ATTACK |SET| SERVE |SRV|DEF| BLOCK |GEN ## Name GP| K E TA PCT| A| SA SE| RE|DIG|BS BA BE|BHE —————————————————————————– 6 Whalen, Heather….. 5| 12 6 33 .182| 4| 1 1| 0| 14| 0 2 1| 0 7 Shackleford, D’wan.. 5| 6 6 20 .000| 0| 0 1| 0| 0| 1 6 0| 0 8 McCarthy, Briana…. 5| 8 1 17 .412| 66| 2 0| 0| 3| 0 5 0| 3 10 Gordon, Stacey…… 5| 32 15 68 .250| 4| 1 5| 0| 14| 0 4 0| 0 11 Miller, Amanda…… 5| 15 6 37 .243| 0| 0 0| 0| 1| 0 1 0| 0 14 Grant, Katherine…. 5| 9 4 17 .294| 0| 0 2| 0| 3| 0 6 0| 0 1 Kastein, Rebecca…. 5| 0 0 0 .000| 0| 0 0| 0| 10| 0 0 0| 0 3 Tengnas, Anna……. 5| 0 0 0 .000| 0| 0 0| 2| 17| 0 0 0| 0 16 Schardt, Jackie….. 4| 0 0 0 .000| 0| 0 1| 0| 0| 0 0 0| 0 —————————————————————————– Totals………….. 5| 82 38 192 .229| 74| 4 10| 2| 62| 1 24 1| 3
TEAM ATTACK PER GAME TOTAL TEAM BLOCKS: 13.0 Game K E TA Pct 1 19 4 38 .395 GAME SCORES 1 2 3 4 5 TEAM RECORDS 2 20 11 46 .196 Ohio State………. 30 27 21 30 15 4-2 3 14 10 43 .093 Rice……………. 21 30 30 27 12 6-5 4 20 10 42 .238 5 9 3 23 .261
Rice | ATTACK |SET| SERVE |SRV|DEF| BLOCK |GEN ## Name GP| K E TA PCT| A| SA SE| RE|DIG|BS BA BE|BHE —————————————————————————– 1 KAINZ, Rebecca…… 3| 2 2 10 .000| 1| 0 0| 0| 0| 0 0 0| 0 3 CARTER, Lindsey….. 5| 25 7 45 .400| 0| 0 2| 1| 9| 0 0 1| 0 5 HOBAN, Kristina….. 5| 1 0 5 .200| 60| 2 0| 0| 8| 0 1 0| 2 6 DUPONT, Catherine… 5| 2 2 10 .000| 1| 0 0| 0| 8| 1 6 0| 0 7 JACKMAN, Julie…… 5| 10 4 19 .316| 1| 0 2| 0| 3| 2 4 1| 0 12 PAZO, Rebeca…….. 5| 19 8 50 .220| 1| 0 2| 0| 13| 0 4 0| 0 2 SIGMAN, Rhonda…… 5| 0 0 0 .000| 0| 0 1| 0| 8| 0 0 0| 0 9 KUYKENDALL, Tessa… 4| 7 1 15 .400| 0| 0 2| 1| 1| 0 7 0| 0 10 NEAL, Rebekah……. 5| 0 0 0 .000| 1| 0 0| 2| 11| 0 0 0| 0 15 SCOTT, Erica…….. 2| 2 1 8 .125| 0| 0 0| 0| 0| 0 0 0| 0 —————————————————————————– Totals………….. 5| 68 25 162 .265| 65| 2 9| 4| 61| 3 22 2| 2
TEAM ATTACK PER GAME TOTAL TEAM BLOCKS: 14.0 Game K E TA Pct 1 16 5 39 .282 Site: Brigham Young Univ. (Smith Fieldhouse) 2 16 3 36 .361 Date: Sep 13, 2003 Attend: 103 Time: 2:00 3 16 3 28 .464 Referees: ANNETTE COTTLE, DAPHNE NELSON, KAREN MARSHALL 4 11 8 38 .079 Mizuno Classic, Provo, Utah 5 9 6 21 .143
