BGSU Tallies Fourth Straight Victory Behind Season-Best Hitting Percentage

Wednesday, October 19

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BGSU Tallies Fourth Straight Victory Behind Season-Best Hitting Percentage

October 19, 2022 | Volleyball

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By: by Kyle Edmond, BGSU Athletics

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – The Bowling Green State University volleyball program picked up their sixth straight win at home with a 3-0 victory over the Miami RedHawks on Wednesday night (Oct. 19). The Falcons jumped out to a strong lead in the first set and followed up with a 7-0 start in the second set, propelling BGSU to a quick 2-0 match lead. The RedHawks took a lead in the third set, but the Falcons were able to battle back and force extra points before ultimately winning the set 29-27 to secure the 3-0 match win.

On the court, Lauryn Hovey led the Falcons with another double-double, her sixth of the season. Katelyn Meyer was atop the stat sheet for BGSU in kills with 13 while contributing a .385 hitting percentage to a season-best mark of .349 for the team. The win moves the Falcons to 13-7 on the season while being 8-1 within the Mid-American Conference. Bowling Green has now won three straight matches by a 3-0 score.

How It Happened
Set 1: Bowling Green 25, Miami 15

The Falcons jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first set and continued to build momentum, using a 4-1 stretch to carry the match into the media timeout with a 15-9 lead.
Bowling Green added two more points out of the timeout to push the stretch to 6-1, including a 4-0 run, to prompt a timeout from the Miami bench.
The run continued for the Falcons with three more points out of the timeout to bring another Miami timeout in the middle of a 7-0 run.
The Redhawks used a 4-0 run out of the timeout to cut the lead to 20-13, but the Falcons were able to hold on for a 25-15 set win, ending the set with an ace from Julia Walz.

Set 2: Bowling Green 25, Miami 18

The Falcons began the second set with a 7-0 run to take a commanding lead, but the RedHawks chipped away to bring the score to 8-6 and force a timeout from the BGSU bench.
Bowling Green soon went on a 5-0 run to increase their lead to 16-9 and bring a timeout from the RedHawks. The lead held for the Falcons to the next stoppage with the score at 20-13.
The Orange and Brown pushed through to the end of the set with a 25-18 score to go up 2-0 for the match.

Set 3: Bowling Green 29, Miami 27

The third set saw a close start with the first stoppage coming from a Bowling Green timeout with the score tied at 9-9 after a 3-0 Miami run.
The set remained close until a timeout from the Falcons paused the action with the score at 23-20 Miami.
The Falcons were able to force the set into extra points after trailing 24-22 and came out with a 29-27 set win to secure the 3-0 sweep.

Falcon Stat Leaders
Kills: Katelyn Meyer (13)
Assists: Jaden Walz (23)
Digs: Yelianiz Torres (14)
Aces: Jaden Walz, Petra Indrova (2)
Blocks: Jessica Andrews, Lauryn Hovey, Alexis Mettille (3)

Falcon Stat Facts

Lauryn Hovey tallied her sixth double-double of the season with 21 assists and 13 kills. Hovey was just three digs shy of registering her second triple-double of the season, ending with seven. Hovey has now logged a double-double or triple-double in four of the last five matches.
For the second consecutive match, the Falcons have registered a season-best hitting percentage after logging a mark of .349 against Miami.
Katelyn Meyer led the BGSU attack with 13 kills. Meyer also concluded the match with a hitting percentage of .385, the best mark of the season for the fifth-year senior.
Jessica Andrews, Alexis Mettille and Kat Mandly all logged season-bests for attack percentage. Andrews tallied three kills on four attacks for a mark of .750. Mettille also had a mark of .750 with six kills on eight attacks. As for Mandly, she finished with a percentage of .316 with nine kills.
The Falcons have now won three straight matches by scores of 3-0 and are winners of four straight as well as eight of the last nine. The Orange and Brown have also won six straight matches at home.
BGSU has now topped Miami in seven straight matches as well as eight straight inside the Stroh Center against the RedHawks.

Up Next
The Falcons will return to the road this weekend for a pair of matches in Ypsilanti, Mich. against the Eastern Michigan Eagles. Friday (Oct. 21) will start the weekend series with a 6:00 p.m. first serve. The weekend matchup will conclude on Saturday (Oct. 22) with a 4:00 p.m. start.

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