No. 13 Women’s Volleyball Falls to No. 11 Purdue, 3-2 – 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 (11-2, 1-2 Big Ten) women’s volleyball team could not hold a 2-1 lead at No. 11 Purdue (13-1, 3-0) Friday night, dropping a 2-3 (26-30, 30-27, 31-29, 32-34-7-15. OSU was unable to score on two match points in game four in the loss. Ohio State’s Danielle Meyer (Jr., Cincinnati, Ohio) and Purdue’s Danita Merlau each scored a match-high 31 points in the match. Meyer collected a match-high 27 kills with three ace serves and two assist blocks. Merlau recorded 23 kills, six ace serves and four assist blocks.
Game one saw Purdue open an early five-point lead at 14-9. Ohio State cut the lead to three at 17-14 where a Marisa Main (Sr., Louisville, Ky.) kill and two Purdue errors tied the game at 17. Purdue regained the lead off two OSU errors to lead 19-17. A Briana McCarthy (Jr., Beaver Dan, Wis.) kill and two ace serves by Meyer gave Ohio State a 20-19 lead. An OSU error tied the game at 20. A Purdue error, a McCarthy-Kirsten Dozier (Fr., Sandy Spring, Md.) block and an Ami Stevens (Jr., Centerburg, Ohio) ace serve gave Ohio State a 23-20. At 25-22, OSU, two Purdue kills by Merlau, one by Carrie Gurnell and an OSU error tied the game at 25. Purdue regained the lead with a Kelli Miller ace serve and a Merlau-Stephanie Lynch block at 27-25. A Main kill cut the Purdue lead to one at 27-26. A Merlau kill and a Carrie Gurnell-Elizabeth Jacques block set game point at 29-26. Purdue won the game with a kill by Samantha Mader, 30-26. The Boilermakers hit .250 for the game to .025 for the Buckeyes.
Tied at two in the second game, Ohio State scored six straight points to open an 8-2 lead. The run began with a Main kill, a Purdue error and two kills by Meyer. After a Purdue timeout, another Meyer kill and one from Anna Szerszen (Fr., Conflans Ste Hne, France) made it 8-2. After a Purdue kill by Lynch, a Boilermaker error and OSU kills by Main and Meyer expanded the lead to eight at 11-3. At 16-9, OSU, a kill by Mader, an OSU error and an ace serve by Brittany Dildine cut the lead to four at 16-12. At 17-13, a Meyer kill and a Felicia Jones (Sr., Concord, Ontario)-Meyer block made it 19-13. With Ohio State leading, 23-16, Purdue scored the next six points to close within one at 23-22. Merlau accounted for two kills and two ace serves in the run. At 25-24, a Kelli Miller kill tied the game at 25. Kills by Meyer and Lynch made it 26-all. An OSU error gave Purdue a 27-26 lead. Two Boilermaker errors returned the lead to OSU at 28-27. A Meyer-Jones block set game point at 29-27. Ohio State won the game, 30-27 with a McCarthy kill to tie the match at one game each. Ohio State hit .295 in the game to .289 for Purdue. Game three saw Ohio State break a 4-4 tied with a three point run including kills by Szerszen and Main and a Boilermaker error to take a 7-4 lead. At 9-7, kills by Meyer and Main and a Purdue error took the lead to five at 12-7. A Jacques kill made it 12-8 but a set error by Purdue and a Main ace serve made the lead six at 14-8. At 20-14, Purdue had a 7-2 run to cut the lead to one at 22-21. A Meyer ace and kill and a Szerszen-Jones block took the lead to 25-21, OSU. At 26-22, a Lynch kill and a Lynch-Emily William block cut the lead to two at 26-24. At 28-26, a Myer kill set game point for the Buckeyes at 29-26. A Merlau kill and then her ace serve stopped the first two game points at 29-28 as OSU called time out. A Mader kill tied the game at 29. A kill by Meyer made it 30-29 for OSU’s third game point. The Buckeyes closed out the game with a Jones kill to win, 31-29 and take a 2-1 lead in the match. Purdue hit .409 for the game to .370 for Ohio State
Ohio State took an early lead in game four with two Szerszen kills at 7-5. At 11-9, Purdue with two kills by Merlau and one from Dildine gave the Boilermakers a 12-11 lead. Szerszen responded with three straight kills to give OSU a 14-12 lead. At 17-15, OSU, A Buckeye error and a Merlau ace serve tied the game at 17. OSU regained the lead with a Purdue error and kills by Szerszen and McCarthy opened a 20-17 lead for OSU. At 20-18, kills by McCarthy and Meyer and a Boilermaker error made it 23-18, OSU. Ohio State expanded the lead to six with a Main kill at 25-19. Purdue rallied with six straight points to tie the game at 25. Tied at 28, an OSU error set game point for Purdue at 29-28. Meyer’s kill tied the game at 29. An OSU error made it 30-29 Purdue, serving a second game point. A Meyer kill and a Purdue error gave OSU a 31-30 lead, serving match point. Purdue responded with a Mader kill to tie the game at 31. A Szerszen kill game OSU its second match point at 32-31. A Lynch kill, a Dildine ace serve and an OSU error ended the game at 34-32 for Purdue tying the match at two games each. Ohio State hit .232 for the game to .196 for Purdue.
Ohio State kills by Szerszen and Meyer gave OSU a 2-1 lead in game five. Purdue, with an eight to one run opened a 9-3 lead. A kill and ace by Szerszen cut the margin to 9-5. Purdue held an 11-7 lead where a Mader kill and three OSU errors ended the game at 15-7. Purdue hit .417 for the game to -.143 for Ohio State.
Purdue hit .293 for the match to .200 for OSU. The Buckeyes had a 78-74 edge in kills while Purdue had an 11-9 margin in ace serves. OSU gave up 13 service errors to eight for Purdue. Defensively, Purdue had an 85-65 margin in digs with Dildine collecting a match-high 27. At the net, the Boilermakers had a 14 to six advantage in team blocks. Purdue’s Lynch had a match-high eight blocks with two solos and six assists. OSU setter Main had a match-high 54 assists in the match with Sam Gray and Lindsay Shondell recording 31 assists each for Purdue.
Ohio State continues on the road Saturday to face Indiana at 7 p.m.
Volleyball Box Score 2006 Ohio State Women’s Volleyball #13 Ohio State vs #11 Purdue (9-29-06 at West Lafayette, Ind.)
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 ———————————————————————————— 6 Meyer, Danielle….. 5| 27 12 73 .205| 1| 3 5| 1| 8| 0 2 0| 0| 31.0 8 McCarthy, Briana…. 5| 10 4 29 .207| 5| 1 2| 0| 7| 0 3 0| 0| 12.5 9 Jones, Felicia…… 5| 6 4 24 .083| 0| 0 0| 0| 1| 0 4 0| 0| 8.0 12 Dozier, Kristen….. 5| 2 2 12 .000| 3| 1 1| 0| 3| 0 1 2| 0| 3.5 13 Main, Marisa…….. 5| 9 3 25 .240| 54| 1 2| 2| 9| 0 0 0| 0| 10.0 14 Szerszen, Anna…… 5| 23 9 56 .250| 0| 2 1| 1| 7| 0 2 0| 0| 26.0 7 Stevens, Ami…….. 5| 0 0 0 .000| 3| 1 2| 5| 23| 0 0 0| 0| 1.0 15 Kiel, Ashley…….. 5| 1 0 1 1.000| 2| 0 0| 2| 7| 0 0 0| 0| 1.0 ———————————————————————————— Totals………….. 5| 78 34 220 .200| 68| 9 13| 11| 65| 0 12 2| 0| 93.0
TEAM ATTACK PER GAME TOTAL TEAM BLOCKS: 6.0 Game K E TA Pct 1 12 11 40 .025 GAME SCORES 1 2 3 4 5 TEAM RECORDS 2 18 5 44 .295 Ohio State………. (2) 26 30 31 32 7 11-2, 1-2 Big Ten 3 20 3 46 .370 Purdue………….. (3) 30 27 29 34 15 13-1, 3-0 Big Ten 4 24 8 69 .232 5 4 7 21 -.143
Purdue | ATTACK |SET| SERVE |SRV|DEF| BLOCK |GEN ## Name GP| K E TA PCT| A| SA SE| RE|DIG|BS BA BE|BHE|POINTS ———————————————————————————— 2 Gray, Sam……….. 5| 0 0 1 .000| 31| 0 5| 0| 3| 0 0 0| 0| 0.0 7 Miller, Kelli……. 5| 1 2 11 -.091| 2| 1 0| 7| 31| 0 0 1| 0| 2.0 17 Mader, Samantha….. 5| 18 6 45 .267| 0| 0 0| 0| 2| 0 2 1| 0| 19.0 18 Jacques, Elizabeth.. 5| 6 0 12 .500| 0| 0 0| 0| 1| 0 6 0| 0| 9.0 20 Lynch, Stephanie…. 5| 15 3 28 .429| 1| 0 2| 0| 0| 2 6 2| 0| 20.0 35 Merlau, Danita…… 5| 23 4 52 .365| 0| 6 1| 0| 13| 0 4 1| 0| 31.0 3 Williams, Emily….. 3| 1 0 3 .333| 0| 0 0| 0| 0| 0 1 0| 0| 1.5 11 Shondell, Lindsay… 5| 2 0 2 1.000| 31| 0 0| 0| 5| 0 0 0| 0| 2.0 12 King, Krystle……. 1| 0 0 1 .000| 0| 0 0| 0| 0| 0 0 0| 0| 0.0 13 Gurnell, Carrie….. 5| 5 4 12 .083| 0| 0 0| 0| 2| 0 4 1| 0| 7.0 14 Dildine, Brittany… 5| 3 2 14 .071| 1| 4 0| 2| 27| 0 1 0| 0| 7.5 19 Mastandrea, Anne…. 4| 0 0 0 .000| 0| 0 0| 0| 1| 0 0 0| 0| 0.0 ———————————————————————————— Totals………….. 5| 74 21 181 .293| 66| 11 8| 9| 85| 2 24 6| 0| 99.0
TEAM ATTACK PER GAME TOTAL TEAM BLOCKS: 14.0 Game K E TA Pct 1 13 4 36 .250 Site: West Lafayette, Ind. (IAF) 2 17 6 38 .289 Date: 9-29-06 Attend: 2163 Time: 2:40 3 22 4 44 .409 Referees: 4 16 6 51 .196 5 6 1 12 .417
1 2 3 4 5 Total Tie scores 8 5 2 14 2 31 Lead changes 3 3 0 5 2 13
