WHO WHAT WHEN WHERE…
PULLMAN, Wash. --
Taylor Mims recorded career-high in kills and digs Sunday afternoon but the Washington State volleyball team (13-7 overall, 2-6 in Pac-12) fell in five sets to Oregon State (13-7, 3-5) in Bohler Gym. The visitors won with set scores of 25-17, 20-25, 25-19, 14-25 and 15-12.
Mims, a junior outside hitter from Billings, Mont., led the match with her career-high 25 kills and also recorded a career-best 18 digs along with a season-high eight blocks and one ace.
Casey Schoenlein had nine kills while
Claire Martin and
Ella Lajos added eight kills each with Martin tallying four blocks and Lajos three blocks.
Jocelyn Urias had six kills with seven blocks. Libero
Alexis Dirige led the match with 28 digs.
Penny Tusa had 32 assists and
Olivia Coale served two aces.
WSU out-blocked Oregon State 14.5 to 6 and out-dug OSU 71 to 64. The Beavers narrowly edged the Cougars in hitting stats, 61 kills to 59, and hitting percentage, .214 to .213. Each team had four aces.
WHY & HOW...
WSU Head Coach Jen Greeny said, "Oregon State is a good team, but I don't think that we played extremely well. We have to hit better, we have to dig better, we have to serve better, we have to do everything better. We've got to get ready to go on the road. We have to be able to elevate our game and I don't think that necessarily starts with the basics (but) we've got to get better.
On what WSU did well in the sets the Cougars won Greeny said, "We served better in those sets, but I feel like Oregon State didn't play as well in those sets."
WSU junior outside hitter Taylor Mims said, "We can look at this and focus more in practice about how we can execute and how we can finish. We had a great start in the fifth set. We need to learn how to carry that out and finish the game. This time we can't hold on to any losses because we have big teams like Stanford and Cal next weekend and we have to look forward in the future. We can't hold on to things like this, but it was a well-fought match and we can take that instead of a loss."
NOTES…
- There were 25 ties in the WSU-OSU five-set match including seven in the fifth set.
- Junior opposite Claire Martin is now eighth in WSU's all-time career records for block assists with 332, and tied for ninth in total blocks with a career accumulation of 364.
- Sophomore libero Alexis Dirige had 28 digs in both the Oregon and Oregon State matches this weekend; the seventh time this season she's had 20 or more digs in a match..
- Attendance: 664
MARK YOUR CALENDAR…
Washington State (13-6 overall, 2-5 in Pac-12) travels to the Bay area to take on California (11-8, 2-6) at 7 p.m. Fri., Oct. 20 at Haas Pavilion and then No. 3 Stanford (14-2, 7-0 pending 10/15 match vs No. 19 USC) at 7 p.m. Sat., Oct. 21 in Maples Pavilion.
