Kidwell Totals Seven Blocks Against Buffalo, Moves To 10th All-Time For Career Blocks

Friday, November 8

Buffalo, NY

2:00 PM

Bowling Green State University

14-11,8-5MAC

Buffalo

10-15,6-7MAC

Bowling Green

Buffalo

Photo by: Isaiah Vazquez/BGSU Athletics

Kidwell Totals Seven Blocks Against Buffalo, Moves To 10th All-Time For Career Blocks

November 08, 2019 | Volleyball

Box Score

By: by Kyle Edmond, BGSU Athletics

Buffalo, N.Y. - The Bowling Green State University volleyball program traveled to snowy Buffalo to face the Bulls on Friday afternoon (Nov. 8) for a rare 2 p.m. first serve at the Alumni Arena with Buffalo being victorious, 3-1. The Falcons took the first set before the Bulls came back to win the match with wins in the second, third and fourth sets. The loss moves Bowling Green to 8-5 in the MAC while being 14-11 overall.

Next Home Match: Bowling Green will return to the Stroh Center on Nov. 14 to take on Miami. Tickets for that match, and all BGSU matches, can be purchased HERE.

Set Scores (Box Score PDF)
Set 1 - Bowling Green 25, Buffalo 21
Set 2 - Buffalo 25, Bowling Green 23
Set 3 - Buffalo 25, Bowling Green 23
Set 4 - Buffalo 25, Bowling Green 16

Play-By-Play Notes

The Bulls and Falcons began the match going back-and-forth in the first set, needing a media timeout with the score at 15-13 Buffalo to stop the action.
Out of the media timeout, Bowling Green nearly tied the match, getting the score within one, but a run by Buffalo would force a timeout from the Falcon bench with the score at 18-15.
Out of the timeout, the Falcons used a 3-0 run to tie the match followed by a Buffalo timeout. BGSU continued the run, pushing it to 5-0 for a 20-18 lead.
The momentum would carry through the set for the Falcons, leading to a set victory to claim a 1-0 advantage.
In the first set, Bowling Green registered a .355 hitting percentage, being led by Katelyn Meyer registering eight kills on 12 attempts with just one error for a .583 hitting percentage.
The second set would pause for a media timeout at 15-13, just like the first set. However, the second set saw two pauses prior for challenges, both from Bowling Green. The Falcons won one of the two challenges.
Out of the timeout, the Falcons would soon use their third and final challenge, winning the challenge, to tie the match at 16-16.
A 3-0 run would follow closely for the Orange and Brown, taking a 20-18 lead and forcing a timeout from Buffalo.
The Bulls closed in, moving the score to 21-20 Bowling Green with a timeout being called from the Falcons' bench.
The lead was extended by the Falcons to 22-20, but a 3-0 run by Buffalo would swing the score to favor the Bulls, 23-22, forcing another BGSU timeout.
From there, the Bulls closed out the set with a 25-23 win, tying the match at a set each.
In the third set, the Bulls began out in front thanks to a 4-0 run, giving them a 9-6 advantage on the scoreboard.
The set would continue to be close seeing multiple ties and momentum shifts, concluding with 25-23 set win for Buffalo.
The fourth set began similarly to the third with Buffalo leading 9-5 at the first stoppage.
The set would grow to a 15-7 lead for the Bulls with another timeout being called by Bowling Green.
Buffalo would conclude the match with a 25-16 set win in the fourth.

Strong Individual Performances

Katie Kidwell totaled seven blocks over the course of the match, one solo and six assists, moving her career total to 374 total blocks, putting her 10th all-time. The six block assists also give her 317 career block assists, placing her just five away from moving up to eighth all-time.
Katelyn Meyer began the match on the attack, going five-for-five to start, setting up a 24-kill match, her third 20+ kill match in the last four.
Isabelle Marciniak nearly had another double-double, logging 39 assists and eight digs. Marciniak now has 3,650 career assists, needing 130 to move up to second in program history.
With 18 digs, Julia Walz now has 497 on the season, tying her with Chrissy Gothke for 10th all-time in a single season. This marks the eighth consecutive season that a Falcon has entered the top 10 all-time for digs in a season with one player adding their name in each of Coach Tomic's seasons at the helm of the program.

Up Next

The Falcons will conclude their final road trip of the regular season on Saturday night (Nov. 9) taking on the Akron Zips with a 7 p.m. start time.
Bowling Green will return to the Stroh Center on Thursday night (Nov. 14) to face Miami with a 6 p.m. start. The match will be Future Falcons Kids Club Night, featuring post-match autographs. Additionally, it will be Greek Night and the Meserve Cup match.
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 two tickets to see Frozen 2 in theaters.

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