Box Score PULLMAN, Wash. -- The No. 23 Washington State volleyball team (17-8 overall, 7-6 Pac-12) lost in four sets to Oregon State (10-14, 3-10) Friday night before a Dad's Weekend crowd of 1,612 fans in Bohler Gym. OSU won with set scores of 19-25, 27-25, 25-23, and 25-19.
 
Cougar senior Kyra Holt led the match with 21 kills and had five digs and five blocks. Casey Schoenlein landed a career-high 14 kills and had two blocks. Taylor Mims had 13 kills, hitting an outstanding .750 on the night, and had six blocks. Claire Martin added three kills and led WSU with seven blocks. Setters Haley MacDonald and Nicole Rigoni both had 25 assists and Alexis Dirige led the match with 17 digs.
 
Oregon State's Mary-Kate Marshall led the Beavs with 18 kills and had two aces, seven digs, and four blocks. Lila Toner had 10 kills and five blocks. Serena Bruin led the match with nine blocks and Katelyn Driscoll added seven more blocks. McKenna Hollingsworth and Sam Rouleau combined for 41 assists while Kayla Ellis had 14 digs.
 
The visitors out-blocked WSU 17.5 to 14 while the Cougars out-hit OSU 59 to 53. The Beavers hit .221 for the match and WSU hit .220.
 
"I thought we came out really well, and were really aggressive from the beginning. It was tough to lose that second set, it was so close," Cougar Head Coach Jen Greeny said. "We were up and then the momentum switched again and we lost a tight one in the third and then just didn't play very well at all in the fourth. They blocked exceptionally well tonight. As hitters, we have to be able to see that block and move the ball around. We struggled a little bit with passing at times, which made us a little more predictable, but they just did a fantastic job of shutting our offense down."
 
"We definitely need to be more consistent in both from week to week and from match to match." Greeny said. "Casey played exceptionally well. I think she was supper aggressive and we have just been talking about that, that it doesn't matter, one mistake, to come back with an aggressive mentality and she certainly did that tonight. I think that we had some people that played really well tonight, and some that didn't and we have to be able to rely on everybody. We might need to mix our lineup a bit, and see what we can get going."
 
Schoenlein said, "It's hard when you lose, and it's tough to look at the positives; you just want to think about what we can improve on. But I thought that we had some very aggressive moments in the match, we had some good coverage, and unfortunately we did not carry that all the way through tonight which would have helped us. I think the first thing we need to do is flush this loss. It's over and done, learn from it, take things we work on in practice tomorrow and apply it to the Oregon game."
 
WSU hosts No. 20 Oregon (15-6, 8-5), Friday night 3-0 upset winners over No. 8 UW, Sunday, Nov. 6 at 11 a.m. in a match to be broadcast live on the Pac-12 Network.