Indiana Volleyball Falls Short Against Maryland in Five-Set Battle

Friday, November 15

Bloomington, Ind.

7:00 PM

Indiana University

13-15,2-13Big Ten

Maryland

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Maryland

Indiana

Indiana Volleyball Falls Short Against Maryland in Five-Set Battle

11/15/2019 11:10:00 PM | Women's Volleyball

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind.– The Indiana volleyball team lost a hard-fought five-set match against conference opponent Maryland, losing 3-2 (25-18, 25-18, 22-25, 20-25, 21-23) on Friday at Wilkinson Hall. Sophomore Breana Edwards tallied a school record 39 kills.

Key Moments

The Hoosiers went up 17-10 in set one thanks to back-to-back kills by Breana Edwards. Maryland would close the gap to 17-15 before another Edwards kill put IU up 18-15.
Maryland won a challenge on a call that changed the score to 19-18. The Hoosiers went on a 6-0 run that featured three consecutive Breana Edwards kills bookended by two kills from Megan Sloan to close the first set and win 25-18.
In set two Maryland challenged a play that would've tied it at 9-9 if overturned, but they lost the challenge and saw IU go up 10-8. The Hoosiers added four more points after that to go up 14-9 and force a Maryland timeout.
Maryland would get within four at 20-16, but IU used a 4-0 run that included three points from Breana Edwards and an ace from Haley Armstrong to go up 24-16. The Hoosiers would go on to win the second set 25-18 on a Megan Sloan kill.
IU got out to a 7-2 lead in set three before an 8-2 Maryland run gave them a 10-9 lead. The score stayed within one point until IU went up 19-17 on back-to-back kills by Hayden Huybers and Megan Sloan, forcing a Maryland timeout. The Hoosiers were up 22-20 before Maryland came back to win the third set 25-22.
With Maryland up 17-13 in set four, IU got four kills from Breana Edwards during a 5-1 stretch that tied the score at 18-18 and forced a Maryland timeout. The Hoosiers would then take a 19-18 lead on a kill by Jacqui Armer.
A 4-1 Maryland run put them up 22-20 and forced an IU timeout before Maryland went on to win the fourth set 25-20.
Maryland challenged a play that would have given the winning team a 14-13 lead, and after losing the challenge Breana Edwards' 35^th kill gave IU a 14-13 lead.
Edwards would give IU a 15-14 lead with kill number 36, setting a new all-time high for Indiana University. She would add on to that high by getting the three kills that put the Hoosiers up 16-15, up 19-18, and up 21-20. Maryland would go on to win the fifth set 23-21.

Notables

The Hoosiers fell to 13-15 overall and 2-13 in Big Ten play. Maryland improved to 13-14 overall and 5-10 in the Big Ten.
Sophomore Breana Edwards led the Hoosiers with a program record 39 kills. She did so while recording the third most attacks in school history with 88, hitting .386 (39-5-88). Edwards impacted the match with seven digs and two blocks.
Freshman Emily Fitzner contributed a season high in assists with 52 while also adding a season high 15 digs.
Senior Megan Sloan tied a career-high with 12 kills while hitting .276 on a career-high 29 attacks (12-4-29). She also added three blocks.
Freshman Haley Armstrong was strong defensively with 23 digs. She also contributed six assists, one ace, and one kill. It was the sixth match this season Armstrong has tallied 20 or more digs.
Juniors Kamryn Malloy and Bayli Lebo each notched double-digit digs for the Hoosiers. Malloy provided 15 digs, four assists, three kills, and one block. Lebo added 13 digs and one ace.
Senior Jacqui Armer provided the team with seven kills, two blocks, one assist, and one ace.

Up Next
Up next the Hoosiers host conference opponent Ohio State for a match that tips at 5:00p.m. EST at Wilkinson Hall.

Indiana Head Coach Steve Aird
"Obviously it was a pretty intense match. Congrats to Maryland, I thought they played great. They fought, they battled, they found a way to win close games. So, full credit to them. I thought Breana was phenomenal tonight for us. She's a kid with a really bright future; I thought she did some great things. For me, we've got to find a way to win the match in three. I thought we had momentum, I thought we were up 7-2 in the third game.

In the process of building and doing what we're trying to do there's a lot of heartbreak and a lot of really tough losses. I think I've told my staff before, you go from getting totally blown out in matches, kind of on the rebuild, to heartbreaking losses. Then you break through and you start winning some of the close games, and then you get to the point where you can start to handle teams as the program develops. Disappointing; full credit to Maryland, I thought they were fantastic and battled. Proud of the fact we had some kids show up and compete first whistle to last whistle."