Bowling Green Outlasts Miami In Five-Set Dogfight

Thursday, November 14

Bowling Green, Ohio

6:00 PM

Bowling Green State University

16-11,10-5MAC

Miami (Ohio)

16-10,11-4MAC

Miami (OH)

Bowling Green

Photo by: Isaiah Vazquez/BGSU Athletics

November 14, 2019 | Volleyball

Box Score

By: by Kyle Edmond, BGSU Athletics

Bowling Green, Ohio - The Bowling Green State University volleyball program outlasted the Miami RedHawks Thursday night (Nov. 14) with a 3-2 victory, taking the second, fourth and fifth sets. The win moves the Falcons record 10-5 within the conference and 16-11 on the season while the RedHawks fall to 11-4 in the MAC and 16-10 overall. With one match left in the regular season, the Orange and Brown need a win and a Miami loss on Saturday (Nov. 16) to claim a share of the MAC East Regular Season title. The Falcons will host Northern Illinois while Miami will return to Oxford to face Western Michigan.

Next Home Match: Bowling Green will return to the Stroh Center on Nov. 16 to take on Northern Illinois. Tickets for that match, and all BGSU matches, can be purchased HERE.

Set Scores (Box Score PDF)
Set 1 - Miami 25, Bowling Green 20
Set 2 - Bowling Green 26, Miami 24
Set 3 - Miami 25, Bowling Green 20
Set 4 - Bowling Green 25, Miami 18
Set 5 - Bowling Green 15, Miami 11

Play-By-Play Notes

Bowling Green jumped out to a 10-6 lead early in the first set on the back of three team aces before Miami called a timeout.
Miami would rally back to tie the set at 10-10, setting up a back-and-forth match for much of the set before Miami took a 17-14 lead with a 3-0 run, ended with a BGSU timeout.
The cushion for Miami would stick before the Falcons called another timeout late in the set.
The RedHawks would claim the first set 25-20 to take the early match advantage.
In the second set, the Falcons again jumped out in front, 6-2, before Miami took a quick timeout.
The run would continue past the timeout for Bowling Green, extending to 4-0 and an 8-2 lead, but Miami would answer with a 5-0 run to bring the score to 8-7 BGSU with the Falcons calling a timeout.
The set would remain close, but the Falcons would stay in front with the action being paused by a Miami timeout with the score at 20-17 Bowling Green.
Out of the timeout, the RedHawks went on a 3-0 run to tie the set at 20-20 with the Falcons calling a timeout of their own.
The set would remain close with the Falcons edging out the RedHawks in extra points with a 26-24 set win.
The third set would start out close with Miami holding a small lead for most of the set up until the first stoppage, coming via BGSU timeout with the score at 12-9 RedHawks.
The action would continue until another Falcon timeout with the score at 19-13.
The score moved closer with Miami taking a timeout of their own with a 22-17 lead.
Miami's next timeout would come with the score at 24-20 RedHawks as the Falcons continued to close the gap.
The RedHawks landed their final point of the set immediately out of the timeout to take a 2-1 lead in the match.
In the third set, the Falcons opened out on top with an 11-8 lead before the first stop in the action, coming from a Miami timeout.
The lead would increase for the Falcons with another timeout coming from the Miami bench with the score reading 18-12 BGSU.
The lead would roll into a set win for Bowling Green, forcing a fifth set at the Stroh.
To begin the fifth set, the RedHawks lept to a 5-2 lead with the Falcons taking a timeout.
Out of the timeout, the Falcons utilized a 4-0 run to take a 6-5 lead and force the RedHawks to call a timeout of their own.
Miami would go on to take the lead, but a 3-0 run would swing the score back to the Falcons, 11-9 forcing Miami to burn the final timeout of the match.
From there, the Falcons would close the door on the match, winning 15-11.

Strong Individual Performances

A well-rounded team effort for the Falcons, three players registered double-digit kills, being Katie Kidwell (14), Katelyn Meyer (11) and Jacqueline Askin (11). Kidwell's 14 was a season-high.
The team also totaled 14 blocks, five solo and nine assists. Lexi Sauber led the way with two solo and five assists while Isabelle Marciniak had five of her own, one solo and four assists. Kidwell logged four assists, moving her up to eighth all-time for career block assists with 324. Similarly, Meyer also had two assists, giving her 33 total blocks on the season, which is a single season career high, topping her 32 from last season.
For digs, Julia Walz had 33, moving her season total to 550, which moves her up to eighth on the all-time list for single season digs, needing just nine more to move to seventh and 19 for sixth.
Staying in the dig category, Paulina Iacobelli had 13 digs, matching her season-high, while Yelianiz Torres had 10 to set a new career-high. As a team, everyone who saw action for Bowling Green tallied at least one dig in the match.
Marciniak not only had five blocks, but led the team in assists with 36 while also having three kills.
As a team, the Falcons had nine service aces, three of which belonged to Jessi Holly with both Torres and Hanna Laube having two apiece. Marciniak and Walz supplied one each as well.

Up Next

The Orange and Brown will conclude the regular season on Saturday night (Nov. 16), taking on Northern Illinois for a 5 p.m. first serve. The match will be both Senior Night and Frozen Night with one fan winning tickets to see Frozen 2 in theaters.

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