No. 13 Women’s Volleyball Defeats Indiana, 3-1 – Ohio State Buckeyes
9/30/2006 12:00:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
Sept. 30, 2006
Box Score
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The 13th ranked Ohio State (12-2, 2-2 Big Ten) women’s volleyball team overcame a 1-0 Indiana (10-6, 1-3) lead to win 3-1 (25-30, 30-25, 30-23, 30-25) Saturday night. OSU’s Briana McCarthy (Jr., Beaver Dam, Wis.) scored a career-high 24.5 points in the match with a career-high 22 kills (.581), one ace serve and four assist blocks. Indiana’s Erica Short posted 24.5 points in the match. She had a team-high 23 kills (.340) and three assist blocks.
In game one, Indian took an early 5-4 lead and never trailed. The Hoosiers took the lead to four at 11-7 and 14-10 only to see OSU cut the lead to one several times, the last at 18-17. Indiana built the lead to six at 28-22 and reached game point with an Allison Regas kill. The Hoosiers won the game, 30-25 with a Gabrielle Allison kill. Indiana hit .361 for the game to .250 for Ohio State.
Ohio State opened game two with a Briana McCarthy-Felicia Jones (Sr., Concord, Ont.) block for a 1-0 lead. Indiana took a 2-1 lead and held the margin until a Marisa Main (Sr., Louisville, Ky.) kill tied the game at six. Tied at eight, an Anna Szerszen (Fr., Conflans Ste Hne, France) kill and two Hoosiers errors opened an 11-8 Ohio State lead. Leading 13-10, a Kristen Dozier (Fr., Sandy Spring, Md.) solo block, a Szerszen kill and an Ami Stevens (Jr., Centerburg, Ohio) ace serve took the lead to 16-10. At 18-12, three Dozier kills and one by Szerszen gave the Buckeyes a 10-point lead at 22-12. A Main ace serve expanded the lead to 11 at 25-14. Indiana then scored six straight points to cut the lead to 25-20. Two kills by Erica Short, one by Regas and a Regas-Annie Moddrell block contributed to the run along with two OSU errors. Indiana did cut the lead to four at 26-22, but an Indiana error and two McCarthy kills set game point at 29-23. Two Buckeye errors took the score to 29-25 before a Dozier kill ended the game at 30-25, OSU, to tie the match at one game each. Indiana hit .343 for the game while Ohio State hit .306.
Tied at two, an Erica Short-Moddrell block gave Indiana a 3-2 lead. Three IU errors and a Szerszen kill gave OSU a 6-3 lead. At three-one Hoosier run cut the lead to one at 7-6. Ohio State then scored seven straight points to open a 14-6 lead. At 18-10, a Danielle Meyer (Jr., Cincinnati, Ohio) kill and a Stevens’s ace serve took the lead to 10 at 20-10. OSU would take the lead to 12, twice before a seven to one Hoosier run cut the lead to six at 28-22. A Meyer kill set game point at 29-22. A Regas kill held off the game point at 29-23. A Szerszen-Dozier block ended the game at 30-23, OSU, to give the Buckeyes a 2-1 lead in the match. For the game, Ohio State hit .344 to .235 for the Hoosiers.
Indiana opened game four with a 4-1 lead before a McCarthy kill and ace serve and an IU error tied the game at four. At 5-4, Indiana, a Hoosier error, a Szerszen ace serve, two Main kills and one by Meyer gave Ohio State a 9-5 lead. The Hoosiers, with a 5-1 run tied the game at 10. At 14-14, kills by McCarthy and Meyer and an IU error gave OSU a three-point lead at 17-14. At 19-16, Hoosier kills by Ditteon and Short cut the OSU lead to one at 19-18. Ohio State then scored seven consecutive points to take an eight-point lead at 26-18. Two kills each by McCarthy and Szerszen and a Jones-McCarthy block contributed to the run. Indiana countered with a seven-two run to cut the lead to three at 28-25. A McCarthy kill set match point at 29-25 and a Hoosier error ended the game at 30-25 for a 3-1 Ohio State win. The Buckeyes hit .304 for the game to .209 for Indiana.
Ohio State hit .299 for the match to .284 for Indiana. The Buckeyes had a 72-61 advantage in kills and an eight to one margin in ace serves with Szerszen recording a match-high three. Indiana gave up 11 service error to six for OSU. Defensively, Ohio State had a 57-39 advantage in digs with OSU’s Stevens recording a match-high 18. At the net, the Hoosiers had a 14.5 to 10 margin in team blocks. IU’s Moddrell recorded a match-high 10 blocks with two solos and eight assists. OSU setter Main had a match-high 56 assists while IU’s Regas had 41.
Ohio State returns home after four consecutive road matches to face No. 14 Wisconsin Friday at 7 p.m. and Minnesota, Sunday at 2 p.m. in St. John Arena.
