Ohio State Women's Volleyball (WKU Tournament recap)

After going 3-0 in the Maryland Invitational, the Buckeyes made their way down to Bowling Green, KY for the WKU Tournament.  The Buckeyes again went 3-0 as they beat Dayton (3-2), IUPUI (3-1), and Western Kentucky (3-1).

Dayton, ranked #10 in the nation at the time, gave Ohio State a tough 5 set match but the Bucks proved to be too much as they won 25-22, 21-25, 25-20, 21-25, 15-12.

Mari Hole again led the way with 21 kills on 52 attacks while Mariah Booth had her best match of the season to that point with 17 kills on 29 attacks.  Emily Danks had her share of struggles with only 12 kills on 40 attempts to go with 5 errors.  This came out to a .175 percentage.  Senior setter Amanda Peterson chipped in with 6 kills and 30 assists while libero Davi DiSalvatore had 2 aces and 18 digs.

For Daytong, Rachel Krabacher recorded 26 kills while Megan Campbell and Shayne Brown chipped in with 10 each.

Later on the same day, Ohio State had an up and down match against IUPUI.  The Buckeyes dominated the first set before struggling in the next two and shutting it down in the 4th set.  OSU ended up winning 25-9, 22-25, 26-24, 25-16.

Four different Buckeyes had double digit kills.  Hole again had a team high 18, Kaitlyn Leary had 17, Booth recorded 13, and (by her standards) Danks struggled again with 12 kills and 6 errors on 31 attacks.  Peterson had 17 assists in two sets at setter while normal backup Taylor Sherwin had 34 assists in extensive action throughout the other three sets of the match.

Kelsey Hoefer had 12 kills for IUPUI while Moriah Fair added 10.

On September 8th Ohio State matched up against the host team, Western Kentucky, and won 3-1.  The scores were as follows: 25-17, 25-18, 21-25, 25-23.

Hole had another solid match with 13 kills while Leary added 10, Danks struggled yet again with 6 errors and only 9 kills and Amanda Peterson did her part with 31 assists and 16 digs.

Jordyn Skinner had 15 kills for WKU but also had 10 errors and Heather Boyan added in 10 kills of her own.  Setter Melanie Stutsman had 40 assists on the match.