Buckeyes Defeated by Rutgers in Straight Sets

Thursday, October 1

Columbus, Ohio

7 p.m.

Ohio State

8-5,1-2Big Ten

Rutgers

10-5,1-2Big Ten

Team	1	2	3	Final F
Rutgers	25	25	25	3
Ohio St.	21	14	23	0

Buckeyes Defeated by Rutgers in Straight Sets

10/1/2026 9:43:00 PM | Women's Volleyball

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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State women's volleyball team (8-5, 1-2 Big Ten) fell to Rutgers (10-5, 1-2 Big Ten) in straight sets (21-25, 14-25, 23-25) on Thursday night in the Covelli Center.

Match Recap
Set 1

The Buckeyes went on a 7-3 run to open the first set, which included two kills from Alia Schoonover.
Rutgers took a 10-8 lead over the Buckeyes but kills from Naomy Govou and Kalli Jioshvili-Ravva tied things up, 10-10.
Trailing by four, 20-16, a service error for the Scarlet Knights and a kill from Govou put the Buckeyes within two points of the lead, 20-18.
Another kill from Govou and a block by Aneta Valentová and Govou left Ohio State down by just one point, 21-20.
The Scarlet Knights, however, went on a 5-1 run to take set one, 25-21.

Set 2

The Scarlet Knights went on a 10-2 run to open the second set. A kill from Schoonover and a kill from Kelly McAuley cut the Rutgers lead to six, 10-4.
At the media timeout, Ohio State trailed the Scarlet Knights, 15-5.
A block by Hannah Jones and Valentová, a kill from Jones and an ace from Govou cut the Rutgers lead to nine, 18-9, but the Scarlet Knights remained in control and took set two, 25-14.

Set 3

An ace from Bella Humphrey and kills from Govou, Jones and Na'vea Gauthier gave the Buckeyes the early 6-2 lead over the Scarlet Knights in the third set.
Back-to-back kills from Govou kept Ohio State ahead by four, 10-6.
Jones' seventh kill of the match brought the teams to the media timeout with the Buckeyes in the lead, 15-13.
Coming out of an Ohio State timeout, two more kills from Jones gave Ohio State a three-point advantage, 21-18.
The score was soon tied, 23-23, after a 5-2 run from the Scarlet Knights, forcing Ohio State to call a timeout. Rutgers scored the game-winning points to take set three, 25-23, and the match 3-0.

Buckeyes by the Numbers

Govou led the Buckeyes with 11 kills. It is Govou's eighth match of the season with double digit kills.
Jones added 10 kills. Jones has been in double digit kills in 12 out of 13 matches.
Emily Avshalomov led the team in digs with 12.
Bailey Nakenelua led the Buckeyes in assists with 16. Mia Tuman added 10 assists.

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