Volleyball Cruises to Three Set Victory Over Kent State

Thursday, October 1

Kent, Ohio

6 p.m.

Bowling Green State University

11-3,3-0MAC

Kent State

6-8,0-3MAC

Team	1	2	3	Final F
Bowling Green	25	25	25	3
Kent St.	16	20	22	0

Avery Anders celebrates a point with Sydnie Herandez at the Stroh Center

Photo by: Lucas Segulin, BGSU Athletics

October 01, 2026 | Volleyball

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BGSU Has Won 12 Straight Meetings Against the Golden Flashes

By: by Sam Hughes, BGSU Athletics

Kent, Ohio – Senior Avery Hobson recorded a match-high 18 kills on 37 attempts to hit at a .432-clip and lead Bowling Green to a 3-0 (25-16, 25-20, 25-22) sweep of Kent State in Mid-American Conference volleyball action on Thursday evening at the M.A.C. Center.

Sophomore Anastasija Bozic added 11 kills as the Falcons racked up 47 kills throughout the match while hitting at a .261 efficiency. Senior Amanada Otten dished out a match-high 30 assists while teammate Sydnie Hernandez was credited with a match-best 14 digs. As a team, BG recorded an 18-10 advantage in block assists with sophomore Cecily Waynar being credited with seven of those.

For Kent State, Mercedez Brown led the way with eight kills for a Golden Flashes offense that averaged just .087 throughout the evening. Christina Vigil scored 24 assists, and Lesley Furuta tallied 12 digs.

With the score level at 2-2 in the opening frame, BGSU jumped ahead, 8-3, with a 7-1 run. A few points later, the Falcons went on an 11-2 spree to balloon the lead up to 19-8 with three of those 11 points coming from kills by Hobson. The Golden Flashes pieced together four straight points late in the set, but a pair of Kent State attack errors closed the door to any possible comeback as BGSU won the first set, 25-16.

Bowling Green jumped out to a hot start once again, using an early 7-2 run to gain advantage. Kent State slowly narrowed the deficit to trail by just two at 17-15 until a kill out of the hands of Hobson ignited the Falcons to grab five straight points to open a 21-15 lead that eventually granted BGSU the frame with a 25-20 victory.

In the third frame, the two sides found themselves even at 20-20 until Hobson came to the rescue again, adding two more kills to take a 22-20 lead before knocking home the final point to lock in a 25-22 set victory and complete the sweep.

Falcon Facts

Bowling Green improved to 3-0 in conference play for the third consecutive season and the seventh time in the past eight years.
With the win, BGSU increased its record against Kent State to 71-24 and have claimed a victory in 12 straight meetings. The winning stretch is the longest against any current MAC opponent.
The Falcons have held their opponents to hit under the .100 mark three times this season, including twice during conference play. Opponents are averaging a .160 hitting percentage through 14 contests this year which is the lowest opponent attack percentage in program history at this point in a season since the COVID-shortened 2020-21 campaign (.157).
The .164 attack percentage by opponents is the lowest by any MAC team and is the 29th-lowest in the nation.
Bowling Green's 47 kills mark the highest total in any three-set match this season, beating out the 46 kills that were recorded in a sweep of Fresno State (Aug. 30).
Otten's 30 assists grow her career total to 2,771 career assists, moving into eighth place in program history. She sits 100 assists out of matching Sam Fish (2007-10) who holds the seventh-most assists in program history and the fourth highest in the Rally Scoring Era.
Hernandez notched her 936^th career dig, 64 away from the 1,000-dig milestone.

Up Next
Bowling Green concludes its weekend series with the Golden Flashes tomorrow evening. First serve between BGSU and Kent State is scheduled for 6 p.m. and can be viewed here.

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