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Friday, September 23
Athens, OH
7:00 p.m.
Bowling Green State University
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Ohio Hands Falcons First Loss
September 23, 2011 | Volleyball
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Athens, Ohio – The Bowling Green State University volleyball team tasted defeat for the first time this year, losing to defending Mid-American Conference champion Ohio 25-17, 25-19, 28-26 Friday night on the road. The loss was the first for the Falcons after starting the year with a program-record 12 consecutive wins.
Bowling Green struggled to get its offense going, especially in the first two sets, as Ohio set the tone early. The Falcons had their worst set of the year statistically in the first, hitting -.079 and was only slightly better in the second, moving into the positive numbers at .105. For a team that entered the match eighth in the country with a .291 attack percentage, those numbers were jarring.
Along with having 27 attack errors during the match, Bowling Green had nine service errors that kept the Falcons from getting any runs going.
“We never got going tonight,” Head Coach Denise Van De Walle said. “Offensively, we were flat. They had a big block and I think that frustrated us. We passed great tonight which should have allowed us to run the offense but we were high-error.”
After dropping the first two sets without much of a fight, the Falcons did show some potential in the third. Bowling Green led by five points at 11-6 and still held a four-point lead at 16-12. Ohio, though, answered with a 6-1 run that put the Bobcats on top 18-17 and it was nip-and-tuck the rest of the way.
The Falcons took a 23-22 lead on a Danielle Tonyan kill, but Bowling Green then had to stave off three match points as Tonyan drilled home kills on each occasion to keep the team in the match. Finally, at 27-26, Ohio won the match on a Kelly Lamberti kill.
Tonyan ended the match with 13 kills, posting eight of those in that third frame, and hit a team-best .360.
“Danielle was the bright spot,” Van De Walle said. “She took some big swings near the end of the second and third sets that kept us in it.”
Emily Kauth added eight kills and a .278 attack percentage but Ohio bottled up Paige Penrod, who had just five kills and 10 attack errors. Penrod did find other ways to contribute, though, adding seven digs. Ashley Dunn had a team-high 11 digs and Kari Galen had three blocks, two of which were solo.
Ohio improves to 9-6 overall and 1-0 in Mid-American Conference play. Bowling Green falls to 12-1 and 0-1 in conference and will play at Kent State (7-9, 0-1 MAC) Saturday night at 7 p.m.
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