Ohio State Edged in Five Sets Against No. 15 Minnesota

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Ohio State Edged in Five Sets Against No. 15 Minnesota

10/27/2024 4:58:00 PM | General, Women's Volleyball

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The Buckeyes wrapped up their span of four top-15 opponents in 10 days on Sunday in the pink match.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State women's volleyball team (8-12, 1-9 B1G) fell in five sets (25-16, 25-18, 22-25, 16-25, 10-15) to No. 15 Minnesota (14-6, 7-3 B1G) on Sunday afternoon in the Buckeyes' annual pink match.

Ohio State used runs of 4-0 and 5-0 to separate themselves for a 25-16 win in the first set. The Buckeyes held off a late Gopher push in the second set to win the set by a 25-18 margin. Minnesota held a lead for the majority of the third set and earned a 25-22 set win. The Gophers won the fourth set by a 25-16 margin to force a fifth set. Minnesota took the fifth set by a 15-10 margin after Ohio State held an early lead in the set.

Emily Londot sealed the second set of the match with her 10^th kill and finished with 21 kills and 13 digs, good for her 12^th double-double of the season. Emmi Sellman (16) joined Londot in double-figure kills. Olivia Hasbrook recorded her 18^th match of the season with at least 10 digs, totaling a team-high 14 digs today.

How it Happened
Sellman and Eloise Brandewie open the match with a block and teams alternated scoring until a 3-0 Minnesota run gave the Gophers a 6-4 lead. Ohio State used a 4-0 run to take a 10-8 advantage and then led by a 15-11 margin at the media timeout following back-to-back kills from Londot. The Buckeyes extended their lead to 18-11 on a 5-0 run. Ohio State clinched a 25-16 set win on a block from Rylee Rader and Mia Tuman.

Minnesota scored the first two points of the second set before three-consecutive kills from Sellman. Ohio State strung together four-unanswered points to take a 9-5 lead. The Gophers called timeout after back-to-back Buckeye points gave OSU a 12-7 lead. Ohio State extended its lead to 19-11 with a 5-0 run and led by as many as nine points at 21-12. After a 5-0 Minnesota run, OSU closed the set with four of the final five points to win the set by a 25-18 margin on Londot's 10^th kill of the match.

Ohio State scored the first two points of the third set, but the next three points belonged to Minnesota. The set was tied at seven after an ace from Londot. The Gophers scored the next four points to take an 11-7 lead and led 15-12 at the media timeout. The Buckeyes used an extended 5-1 run to get within one at 18-17 and force a Gophers timeout. Minnesota scored the next two points out of the timeout and Ohio State called timeout trailing 20-17. The Buckeyes got within one again at 22-21 on a kill from Sellman but the Gophers extended the match with a 25-22 set win.

The Buckeyes opened scoring in the fourth set with a kill from Reese Wuebker and held a narrow lead until the Gophers tied the set at points seven through nine and took their first lead of the set at 10-9. Minnesota put together a 3-0 run to take a 13-10 lead and prompt an Ohio State timeout. The Gophers extended their lead to 20-13 on the back of a 5-1 run to force a second OSU timeout. Minnesota won the set by a 25-16 margin.

Ohio State scored the first three points of the fifth set but Minnesota used a 5-0 run to take an 8-6 lead. Out of the media timeout, the Gophers extended their lead to 9-6 before a kill from Reese Wuebker. OSU called timeout trailing 11-8 and again at 13-8. Minnesota won the set by a 15-10 margin.

Highlights

Match Notes

This is Ohio State's fourth-consecutive match against a top-15 team in the span of 10 days.
Every Buckeye who started recorded at least two digs.
Emily Londot was the first Buckeye to reach 10 kills and finished with 21 kills. She added 13 digs for her 12^th double-double of the season. She's totaled at least 10 kills in every match this season and has surpassed 20 kills in five matches.
Rylee Rader and Eloise Brandewie started the match hitting a combined 13-of-20 (.650) before committing their first error in the middle.
Emmi Sellman totaled 10+ kills for the fourth time this season and finished the match with 16 kills today.
Olivia Hasbrook recorded her 18^th match of the season with at least 10 digs as she finished the match with a team-high 14 digs and reached 300 digs this season.
S1: Ohio State hit .414 as a team in the set compared to Minnesota's .115.
S2: The Buckeyes did not trail in the set after 4-3.

What They Said

Head Coach Jen Flynn Oldenburg on growing from a close loss…
- "What are we about? If you're going to give up, you might as well just turn in your jerseys and go home. This is about us and our pride and how hard are we going to work for the rest of the season."
Graduate middle Rylee Rader on what the team could've done to win the match…
- "We needed to go back to playing simple volleyball. If we played the same as we did in the first and second sets, I think we would have that game – not by doing anything special but just playing how we normally play and playing Buckeye volleyball."
Sophomore middle Eloise Brandewie on what changed between the second and third sets…
- "I think the whole match we fought really hard but between the second and third sets there was a dip in our energy and our consistency. We let our emotions get the best of us."

Up Next
Ohio State hosts Iowa on Thursday for a 7:30 p.m. ET match on BTN.

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