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Volleyball Falls to Buffs in Colorado
November 01, 2017 | Volleyball
WHO WHAT WHEN WHERE…
BOULDER, Colo. -- The Washington State volleyball team (14-11 overall, 3-10 in Pac-12) was looking for another win against the Buffaloes this season but Colorado (18-6, 8-5) found revenge with a 25-14, 25-17, 25-23 win over the Cougars Wednesday night in the Coors Events Center in Boulder, Colo. WSU won the first meeting against then-No. 5 Colorado, 3-1 in Pullman Oct. 6.
Taylor Mims led the match with 13 kills and Casey Schoenlein added another eight kills but the Cougars could not find much more offensive success. Jocelyn Urias led the match with seven blocks with Claire Martin collecting three blocks, Cameron Antoine-Dillon had three blocks and Mims had two blocks. Alexis Dirige had a match-high 13 digs and joined setters Ashley Brown, Penny Tusa, Nicole Rigoni in combining for 26 assists. Olivia Coale, Urias and Brown each served one ace.
Colorado out-hit the Cougars 40 to 28, out-dug WSU 45-39 and out-blocked the visitors 8.5 to 8. Colorado hit .200 as a team and WSU was held to a -.019 team hitting percentage.
WHY & HOW...
WSU Head Coach Jen Greeny when asked about the offensive woes tonight said, "We hit negative tonight and you can't get much worse than that. For some reason we just couldn't connect. I thought we did a pretty good job defensively to holding them but we couldn't get any hitters to put the ball away. That's a problem. We have to set a little bit better. I thought we passed really well and our hitters just…we didn't have anybody tonight.
"I thought we served well and passed well and with that normally you have a couple of hitters doing a good job. We didn't have anyone tonight. I can't really put my finger on why so we're going to have to try and regroup and see what we can do in the quick turnaround."
NOTES…
MARK YOUR CALENDAR…
Washington State (14-11 overall, 3-10 in Pac-12) flies to Salt Lake City tomorrow morning to play No. 15 Utah (17-6, 8-4) Thurs., Nov. 2 at 6 p.m. PT. The match will be live streamed online, go to wsucougars.com volleyball schedule page for the link.
BOULDER, Colo. -- The Washington State volleyball team (14-11 overall, 3-10 in Pac-12) was looking for another win against the Buffaloes this season but Colorado (18-6, 8-5) found revenge with a 25-14, 25-17, 25-23 win over the Cougars Wednesday night in the Coors Events Center in Boulder, Colo. WSU won the first meeting against then-No. 5 Colorado, 3-1 in Pullman Oct. 6.
Taylor Mims led the match with 13 kills and Casey Schoenlein added another eight kills but the Cougars could not find much more offensive success. Jocelyn Urias led the match with seven blocks with Claire Martin collecting three blocks, Cameron Antoine-Dillon had three blocks and Mims had two blocks. Alexis Dirige had a match-high 13 digs and joined setters Ashley Brown, Penny Tusa, Nicole Rigoni in combining for 26 assists. Olivia Coale, Urias and Brown each served one ace.
Colorado out-hit the Cougars 40 to 28, out-dug WSU 45-39 and out-blocked the visitors 8.5 to 8. Colorado hit .200 as a team and WSU was held to a -.019 team hitting percentage.
WHY & HOW...
WSU Head Coach Jen Greeny when asked about the offensive woes tonight said, "We hit negative tonight and you can't get much worse than that. For some reason we just couldn't connect. I thought we did a pretty good job defensively to holding them but we couldn't get any hitters to put the ball away. That's a problem. We have to set a little bit better. I thought we passed really well and our hitters just…we didn't have anybody tonight.
"I thought we served well and passed well and with that normally you have a couple of hitters doing a good job. We didn't have anyone tonight. I can't really put my finger on why so we're going to have to try and regroup and see what we can do in the quick turnaround."
Taylor Mims with her 5th kill of S1. #RiseAgain pic.twitter.com/mSMijmaxkt
— Cougar Volleyball (@wsuvolleyball) November 2, 2017
Cameron Antoine-Dillon with a HUGE BLOCK. Great Spark off the bench. #GoCougs #RiseAgain pic.twitter.com/DCHhAPJj13
— Cougar Volleyball (@wsuvolleyball) November 2, 2017
Jocelyn Urias back-to-back points ties up S3 at 22. #GoCougs #WinTheDay pic.twitter.com/PLy5S9j01Y
— Cougar Volleyball (@wsuvolleyball) November 2, 2017
NOTES…
- Freshman Cameron Antoine-Dillon contributed three blocks tonight, including a solo block, the first in her collegiate career.
- Alexis Dirige, sophomore libero, has reached 914 career digs for 17th in WSU all-time career records. She has tallied double-digit digs in 20 of 25 matches this year.
- Junior Claire Martin continues to add to her career blocking top-10 marks. Martin's 351 block assists is fifth-best and her 383 total blocks is seventh-best in the WSU all-time career rankings.
- Attendance: 942
MARK YOUR CALENDAR…
Washington State (14-11 overall, 3-10 in Pac-12) flies to Salt Lake City tomorrow morning to play No. 15 Utah (17-6, 8-4) Thurs., Nov. 2 at 6 p.m. PT. The match will be live streamed online, go to wsucougars.com volleyball schedule page for the link.
Team Stats
WSU
COLO
Kills
28
40
Errors
30
18
Attempts
108
110
Hitting %
-.019
.200
Points
39.0
49.5
Assists
26
33
Aces
3
1
Blocks
8.0
8.5
Game Leaders
Kills
13
Aces
0
Blocks
2
Kills
8
Aces
0
Blocks
0
Kills
3
Aces
0
Blocks
3
Kills
2
Aces
1
Blocks
7
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