Bowling Green State University
Kent State
Volleyball Stops KSU In Five Games
September 29, 2000 | Volleyball
Sept. 29, 2000
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - Junior Caty Rommeck had a career-best 29 kills as the Bowling Green State University volleyball team recorded a five-game win over Kent State University at Anderson Arena Friday night (Sept. 29). The Falcons won the Mid-American Conference match by scores of 15-13, 9-15, 15-4, 9-15, 15-9.
BGSU, now 8-4 overall and 1-2 in MAC action, captured a close first game in which neither team ever led by more than three point. Freshman Susie Norris, who finished second on the team with 15 kills, closed out game one with a kill.
The Golden Flasehs (4-9, 1-2) came back to win game two, reeling off the last seven points of that game.
After the intermission, the visitors continued the run, breaking out to a 3-0 lead in the third game. But, the Falcons responded in a big way. A kill by junior setter Natalie Becker was followed by a Rommeck kill, igniting a 14-0 BGSU run. Norris had four kills among the Falcons' last six points of the game.
In the fourth game, KSU broke a 3-3 tie with a 9-0 run, then saw the Falcons score six unanswered points. Rommeck figured in the scoring in five of those points, with four kills and a block assist. The Flashes, however, scored the next three points to force the decisive fifth game.
In that fifth game, the Falcons trailed by a 2-1 count early, but took a 5-3 lead. Then, after KSU tied the contest at 5-all, BGSU scored the next three points and never trailed again. The Golden Flashes got as close as two points on three occasions, but a Rommeck kill gave BG an 11-8 lead and began the match-ending 5-1 run.
Rommeck hit a match-best .429 in the win, with just five attack errors in her 56 attempts. Junior Shyann Robinson joined Rommeck and Norris in double digits with 12 kills.
Defensively, Norris led five double-digit Falcon diggers with a total of 27, while senior JoAnna Papageorgiou had 18. Becker had 60 assists in the win.
Shiva Davis led the Flashes with 18 kills, while Carrie McEnery had 17 kills and a .326 hitting percentage. McEnery added a team-best 21 digs.
The Falcons return to action Saturday night (Sept. 30), concluding a seven-match homestand with a contest against Marshall University. First serve for the MAC match is scheduled for 7:00 p.m.
