Buckeyes Best Bulls in Five Sets

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Buckeyes Best Bulls in Five Sets

9/14/2024 8:44:00 PM | General, Women's Volleyball

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Ohio State secured a thrilling five-set win against Buffalo on Saturday in the Sports Imports Classic.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State women's volleyball team (5-2) earned a five-set win (16-25, 25-19, 21-25, 25-21, 15-11) against Buffalo (3-6) on Saturday as part of the Sports Imports Classic.

Buffalo began the match with a 25-16 win in the first set. Ohio State evened the match with a 25-19 win in the second set, using a pair of runs to take the lead midway through the set. The Bulls won the third set by a 25-21 margin after taking the lead late in the set. The Buckeyes started the fourth set strong and held off a late UB push to even the match with a 25-21 set win. The fifth set was back-and-forth early before a 5-0 Buckeye run midway through the set gave OSU a lead it would not relinquish.

Emily Londot moved up to third in program history in career points and was the first in the match to 10 kills today, finishing with a season-high 29 kills. Londot added 11 digs and a season-high seven blocks. Rylee Rader tallied a season-high eight blocks. Olivia Hasbrook was the first Buckeye to reach 10 digs and finished with 14 digs in the match.

How it Happened
Buffalo got on the board first, but Ohio State took its first lead at 5-4 on the back of a 4-0 run. The set was tied at the next few points before the Bulls strung together a 6-1 run to take a 12-8 lead and prompt an OSU timeout. The Buckeyes took another timeout trailing 19-12 and Buffalo went on to earn the 25-16 set win.

The Bulls scored the first two points of the second set. The Buckeyes used a 4-0 run to take a 9-7 lead, forcing a UB timeout. Buffalo won a challenge out of the timeout and tied the set at nine before six-unanswered Ohio State points gave the Buckeyes a 15-9 lead and prompted a second Bulls timeout. OSU led by as many as seven points at 16-9 but UB got as close as four points at 19-15. The Buckeyes scored the next four points and called timeout leading 23-18. Ohio State evened the match with a 25-19 set win.

Ohio State scored six of the third set's first seven points before three-straight UB points. The Buckeyes responded with the next four points to increase their lead to 10-4. An extended 6-1 Bulls run got UB back within one at 12-11, forcing a Buckeye timeout. Ohio State scored first out of the timeout, but Buffalo used a 3-0 run to tie the set at 17. UB took its first lead of the set at 19-18 and forced an OSU timeout as the Buckeyes trailed 22-19. Buffalo earned the 25-21 set win.

Londot opened the fourth set with her 17^th kill of the match and recorded three kills and a block early as the Buckeyes jumped out to a 6-1 lead. Ohio State used a 5-0 run, including a pair of aces from Rader, to extend its lead to 11-2. The Buckeyes led by as many as 10 points but the Bulls got as close as three points at 18-15 to force an OSU timeout. Buffalo got within one at 19-18 but Ohio State responded with a 5-0 run amidst a UB timeout and closed the 25-21 set win with a kill from Londot.

Buffalo opened scoring in the fifth set and neither team scored more than two points in a row early and the set was tied at six apiece. Ohio State put together a 5-0 run to take a 9-6 lead amidst a Bufalo timeout. The Bulls got within one at 10-9 but back-to-back Buckeye points gave OSU the 12-9 advantage. Ohio State clinched the 15-11 set win with Londot's 29^th kill of the day.

Highlights

Match Notes

This is the Buckeyes' first five-set win of the season.
Ohio State totaled a season-high 14 blocks.
Emily Londot moved into third in program history in career points as she now owns 2,095 points. Holly O'Leary previously held that third spot with 2,064 points.
Londot was the first in the match to reach 10 kills, doing so early in the first set and finishing with a season-high 29 kills. Londot has at least 10 kills in every match this season and has surpassed 20 kills twice.
Londot added a season-high seven blocks and totaled 11 digs to record her third double-double of the season.
Rylee Rader tied her season-high six blocks in the third set and finished the match with eight blocks.
Londot and Rader are tied for ninth in program history with 325 block assists apiece.
Olivia Hasbrook recorded 10+ digs for the sixth time this season, totaling a team-high 14 digs today.
Eloise Brandewie recorded her 200^th career kill and Grace Egan recorded her 100^th career kill.
S1: Londot totaled nine kills in the set, hitting .727 as she recorded only one error on 11 attacks.
S2: Ohio State used an 11-2 run midway through the set to take a lead that would not be relinquished.
S3: Buffalo took the lead late in the set, which was the only lead change in the set.
S4: Ohio State got off to an 11-2 start and held off a late push from the Bulls to lead wire-to-wire.
S5: The Buckeyes' 5-0 run midway through the set created the separation needed for the win. Ohio State had only one error in the set.

What They Said

Head Coach Jen Flynn Oldenburg
- "Emily Londot is a leader for us and we rely on her in big moments and even in the start of sets. She was scoring early on tips and then they started to pick it up and she felt a little bit out of rhythm. At the start of the fourth, we talked about it with Mia Tuman and said, 'what do you need to swing again?'. Mia gave Londot a couple medium tempo balls and she started swinging. Everybody responds after Londot or anyone takes a big swing like that but I think it really turned the match in a sense. Buffalo had a little momentum there and Londot taking big rips helps everyone else loosen up a bit."
Sophomore setter Mia Tuman
- "It was definitely exciting. We love to keep it interesting and it meant a lot to have Buckeye Nation and a lot of fans in the crowd to give us energy and feed into us a lot."
Freshman libero Olivia Hasbrook
- "I think my teammates helped me a lot and put me in good situations, which makes my job a lot easier. When you have an awesome block and awesome defenders around you and people you know you can trust – it makes my job easy having great girls around me."

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