Indiana Volleyball Drops Match Against No. 5 Nebraska

Friday, October 25

Bloomington, Ind.

8:00 PM

Indiana University

12-10,1-8Big Ten

#5 Nebraska

15-3,7-2Big Ten

Nebraska

Indiana

Indiana Volleyball Drops Match Against No. 5 Nebraska

10/25/2019 11:07:00 PM | Women's Volleyball

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind.– The Indiana volleyball team opened their match against No. 5 Nebraska with a win in the first set, but would ultimately come up short and lose 3-1 (25-22, 13-25, 16-25, 14-25) on Friday at Wilkinson Hall.

Key Moments

In the first set against Nebraska, a Deyshia Lofton solo block made it 9-7, but Nebraska answered with a 3-0 run to take a 10-9 lead. The Hoosiers would use a 9-5 run to go up 18-15, with a Kendall Beerman kill and Jacqui Armer solo block forcing two Nebraska timeouts along the way.
Breana Edwards gave IU a 21-16 lead and forced a Nebraska timeout late in set one. Edwards scored points 21 through 24 for the Hoosiers, and her four consecutive kills gave IU a 24-20 lead. Nebraska would win consecutive set points to close the gap to 24-22, but IU held on to win 25-22.
With Nebraska up 12-6 in set two, Breana Edwards reached across the scorer's table to save a ball, getting it over and allowing IU to eventually win the point on a block by Lofton and Sloan and close the deficit to 12-7.
Nebraska used a 10-3 run to go up 22-10, but a 3-0 run by IU featuring kills by Beerman and Edwards forced a Nebraska timeout. Nebraska would use a 3-0 run of their own to win the second set 25-13.
The Hoosiers responded to Nebraska getting out to a 5-1 lead in set three by using a 7-3 run to tie the score 8-8. Nebraska would come back with a 14-4 run to push their lead to 22-12.
A Hayden Huybers kill would end a 4-0 Nebraska run, and a 3-0 IU run closed the deficit to 22-15. Nebraska would close out the third set and win 25-16.
IU went up 1-0 in the fourth set, but Nebraska would answer with a 10-4 run to go up 10-5. The Hoosiers would close the gap to 10-7 on a solo block by Kamryn Malloy.
Nebraska would win eight of the next nine points, going on a 7-0 run during the stretch to go up 18-8. The Hoosiers would later fight off a set point with the help of a Kamryn Malloy kill that closed the gap to 24-14, but Nebraska won set four 25-14.

Notables

The Hoosiers fell to 12-10 overall and 1-8 in Big Ten play. Nebraska improved to 16-2 overall and 8-1 in the Big Ten.
With a win in the first set, IU accomplished something no Hoosier volleyball team has done since Nov. 9, 2012 in taking a set from the Huskers.
Sophomore Breana Edwards led the Hoosiers with 15 kills while hitting .200 (15-7-40). Edwards also added five digs and one ace.
Redshirt Junior Kendall Beerman recorded double-digit kills for the fifth time this season with 10 in the match.
Senior Victoria Brisack and freshman Emily Fitzner each provided a double-double for the Hoosiers. Brisack contributed 16 assists and 10 digs, while Fitzner added 16 assists and a season-high 13 digs.

Up Next
Up next the Hoosiers are at home for the second consecutive day as conference foe Iowa comes to Wilkinson Hall on Saturday, Oct. 26 at 7:00p.m. EST.

Indiana Head Coach Steve Aird
"We've established Nebraska is pretty good. I thought they were excellent in the last three games. Took their game to a different level, which you expect from a team that is as good as they are. Really proud of our kids in game one. I thought not only the energy of the building, but [also] how hard we played. I thought we played clean and did some really good things for extended periods of time in game one. It is like anything else; I don't think we are a top ten team, but I think there are times this year we have played really good volleyball. I felt good about that. Then they made some adjustments and their kids started to get going a little bit and that is just how it is.

I think we are a pretty good volleyball team. We do good things for stretches, but we have to do things for really long stretches to beat teams like that. We'll take the good from it now, and we go on into tomorrow in a match we'd like to win for sure. On the whole, hate to lose but I thought there were some positive things tonight for sure."