No. 12 Women’s Volleyball Falls, 0-3, to No. 2 Penn State – Ohio State Buckeyes
9/20/2006 12:00:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
The 12th ranked Ohio State (10-1, 0-1 Big Ten) women’s volleyball team opened Big Ten Conference play with an 0-3 (21-30, 29-31, 16-30) loss to No. 2 Penn State (12-0, 1-0) at Rec Hall in University Park, Pa. Buckeye Danielle Meyer (Jr., Cincinnati, Ohio) scored a team-high 16 points, recording 14 kills, one ace serve and two assist blocks. Penn State’s Megan Hodge had a match-high 27 points with 23 kills, two ace serves and four assist blocks.
Ohio State held an early 5-4 lead in game one off a Meyer kill. Penn State tied the game at five and opened up an 8-5 lead. The Nittany Lions took the lead to nine at 24-15 before a Meyer kill, a triple block by Meyer, Meghan Simons (Fr., Carroll, Ohio) and Briana McCarthy (Sr./Jr., Beaver Dam, Wis.), an ace serve by Marisa Main (Sr., Louisville, Ky.) and a Penn State error cut the lead to 24-19. Hodge and Meyer exchanged kills to move the score to 25-20. A PSU error cut the lead to four at 25-21. Penn State scored the next five points, four from OSU errors, to win the game, 30-21 with a Hodge kill. Penn State hit .171 in the game to -.087 for Ohio State.
Game two saw three early lead changes with Penn State building a six-point lead at 13-7. The Buckeyes scored five straight points to cut the lead to one at 13-12. The run began with an Anna Szerszen (Fr., Conflans Ste Hne, France) kill and a McCarthy ace serve. Two kills by Szerszen and one from Meyer made it 13-12. At 18-all, a Penn State error gave OSU a 19-18 lead. A Buckeye error tied the game at 19 and two Penn State blocks made the Nittany Lion lead, 21-19. A block by Simons and McCarthy cut the PSU lead to 21-20. Penn State took a three-point lead with a Christa Harmotto kill and an OSU error to lead 23-20. Ohio State, trailing 26-23, used a Meyer kill and two Nittany Lion errors to tie the game at 26. After ties at 27, 28 and 29, a Hodge kill gave Penn State a 30-29 lead. A Buckeye error ended the game at 31-29. The Nittany Lions hit .293 for the game to .205 for the Buckeyes. Ohio State held a 3-1 lead in game three from a Simons kill and two PSU errors. At 9-6, Ohio State, Penn State scored three straight points with kills by Harmotto and Hodge and tied the game with a Kate Price ace serve at nine. Tied at 10, a Hodge kill put Penn State ahead, 11-10. The Nittany Lions then outscored Ohio State 19-10 to win the game, 30-16, on a Harmotto kill to win the match, 3-0. Penn State hit .333 in the game to -.129 for Ohio State.
Penn State hit .266 for the match while Ohio State hit .008. The Nittany Lions had a 49-32 advantage in kills and a 5-4 edge in ace serves with Hodge collecting a match-high two. Penn State had seven service errors to three for the Buckeyes. Defensively, the Nittany Lions had a 46-34 advantage in digs with PSU’s Roberta Holehouse collecting a match-high 17 for the Lions. At the net, Penn State had a 12.5 to 5.5 margin in team blocks. Harmotto recorded a match-high nine blocks with a solo and eight assists. PSU’s Alisha Glass had 41 assists in the match while Main had 29 for Ohio State.
The Buckeyes will now travel to Iowa (11-1, 0-0) to face the Hawkeyes Saturday.
Volleyball Box Score 2006 Ohio State Women’s Volleyball #12 Ohio State vs #2 Penn State (09/20/06 at University Park, Pa.)
Ohio State | ATTACK |SET| SERVE |SRV|DEF| BLOCK |GEN ## Name GP| K E TA PCT| A| SA SE| RE|DIG|BS BA BE|BHE|POINTS ———————————————————————————— 1 Simons, Meghan…… 3| 1 1 5 .000| 0| 0 0| 0| 2| 0 4 0| 0| 3.0 6 Meyer, Danielle….. 3| 14 7 35 .200| 1| 1 0| 1| 9| 0 2 0| 0| 16.0 8 McCarthy, Briana…. 3| 2 4 12 -.167| 1| 1 0| 0| 4| 0 4 0| 1| 5.0 12 Dozier, Kristen….. 3| 1 2 6 -.167| 0| 0 0| 0| 0| 0 1 0| 0| 1.5 13 Main, Marisa…….. 3| 1 2 11 -.091| 29| 1 0| 0| 3| 0 0 3| 2| 2.0 14 Szerszen, Anna…… 3| 13 14 45 -.022| 0| 0 1| 0| 3| 0 0 0| 0| 13.0 2 Dahms, Brittany….. 3| 0 0 0 .000| 0| 0 0| 0| 2| 0 0 0| 0| 0.0 7 Stevens, Ami…….. 3| 0 0 4 .000| 1| 1 2| 3| 8| 0 0 0| 0| 1.0 9 Jones, Felicia…… 1| 0 1 1-1.000| 0| 0 0| 0| 0| 0 0 0| 0| 0.0 15 Kiel, Ashley…….. 3| 0 0 2 .000| 0| 0 0| 1| 3| 0 0 0| 0| 0.0 ———————————————————————————— Totals………….. 3| 32 31 121 .008| 32| 4 3| 5| 34| 0 11 3| 3| 41.5
TEAM ATTACK PER GAME TOTAL TEAM BLOCKS: 5.5 Game K E TA Pct 1 9 13 46 -.087 GAME SCORES 1 2 3 TEAM RECORDS 2 18 9 44 .205 Ohio State………. (0) 21 29 16 10-1, 0-1 Big Ten 3 5 9 31 -.129 Penn State………. (3) 30 31 30 12-0, 1-0 Big Ten
Penn State | ATTACK |SET| SERVE |SRV|DEF| BLOCK |GEN ## Name GP| K E TA PCT| A| SA SE| RE|DIG|BS BA BE|BHE|POINTS ———————————————————————————— 1 Fawcett, Nicole….. 3| 13 6 30 .233| 0| 1 2| 0| 1| 0 1 0| 0| 14.5 2 Walbridge, Melissa.. 3| 2 3 8 -.125| 0| 0 0| 0| 2| 0 3 0| 0| 3.5 3 Harmotto, Christa… 3| 8 0 13 .615| 1| 0 0| 1| 0| 1 8 0| 0| 13.0 6 Glass, Alisha……. 3| 2 0 8 .250| 41| 0 0| 0| 4| 0 5 1| 1| 4.5 11 Hodge, Megan…….. 3| 23 8 43 .349| 0| 2 2| 0| 9| 0 4 0| 0| 27.0 16 Price, Kate……… 3| 1 2 6 -.167| 0| 1 1| 1| 6| 0 2 0| 2| 3.0 4 Holehouse, Roberta.. 3| 0 0 0 .000| 2| 0 1| 2| 17| 0 0 0| 0| 0.0 5 Brown, Kris……… 3| 0 0 0 .000| 0| 0 0| 0| 1| 0 0 0| 0| 0.0 7 Fidler, Ashley…… 3| 0 1 1-1.000| 1| 1 1| 0| 5| 0 0 0| 0| 1.0 13 Callahan, Kara…… 1| 0 0 0 .000| 0| 0 0| 0| 1| 0 0 0| 0| 0.0 ———————————————————————————— Totals………….. 3| 49 20 109 .266| 45| 5 7| 4| 46| 1 23 1| 3| 66.5
TEAM ATTACK PER GAME TOTAL TEAM BLOCKS: 12.5 Game K E TA Pct 1 13 7 35 .171 Site: University Park, Pa. (Recreation Building) 2 19 7 41 .293 Date: 09/20/06 Attend: 2637 Time: 1:40 3 17 6 33 .333 Referees: Mary Blalock, Kathy Ferraraccio
1 2 3 Total Tie scores 4 13 3 20 Lead changes 2 4 1 7
