Volleyball Splits First Two Matches of Hoosier Invitational

Friday, September 6

Bloomington, Ind.

10:00 AM

Indiana University

4-0

Oregon State

3-0

Oregon St.

Indiana

Volleyball Splits First Two Matches of Hoosier Invitational

9/6/2019 11:54:00 PM | Women's Volleyball

Box Score 1 Box Score 2 Photo Gallery vs. Oregon State Photo Gallery vs. Oklahoma Box Score vs. Oregon State (PDF)Box Score vs. Oklahoma (PDF)

BLOOMINGTON, Ind.– The Indiana volleyball team split their opening matches of the Hoosier Invitational. The Hoosiers started the day with a victory in straight sets (25-15, 25-17, 25-18) over Oregon State and finished the night with a 3-2 (23-25, 25-23, 25-22, 14-25, 12-15) loss to Oklahoma.

Key Moments

In the Hoosiers match against Oregon State, the score was tied 14-14 in the first set, before the Hoosiers closed out the set on a 11-1 run.
With the score tied 10-10 against the Beavers in set two, the Hoosiers scored 10 of the next 15 points and went up 20-15 on a block by Deyshia Lofton and Megan Sloan.
At 21-17 in the third set, the Hoosiers scored four of the last five points to win the set 25-18 and win the match 3-0.
In set one against Oklahoma, the Hoosiers trailed 19-15, but used a 5-1 run to tie it 20-20. Oklahoma went on to win the set 25-23.
Oklahoma got out to an 11-5 lead in the second set, but the Hoosiers came back with an 8-2 run to tie it 13-13.
Tied 9-9 in set three, the Hoosiers went on a 7-2 run to go up 16-11 and won the set 25-22.
In set five, the Hoosiers faced an early 0-3 deficit before going on a 5-2 run to tie it 5-5. Oklahoma would use a 5-1 run to go up 10-6. The Hoosiers closed the gap to two at 14-12, but Oklahoma came out on top 15-12.

Notables

The Hoosiers moved to a 4-2 record after today's matches.
Senior Megan Sloan connected for 11 kills on 15 attempts with no errors to hit .733 against Oregon State. Sloan also added six blocks.
Sophomore Breana Edwards recorded 12 kills on 23 attempts to hit .522 against Oregon State.
Freshman Haley Armstrong had 15 digs in the three sets against Oregon State.
The Hoosiers recorded a season-high 14 blocks against Oklahoma.
Against Oklahoma, six different IU players had at least six kills in the match.
Junior Kamryn Malloy recorded a double-double with 10 kills and 15 digs.
Senior Jacqui Armer tallied eight blocks against Oklahoma.
A crowd of 1,974 people attended the match, the most for a match this season.

Up Next
Next up the Hoosiers host Yale at 12pm on Sunday, September 8^th for their last match of the Hoosier Invitational.

Indiana Head Coach Steve Aird
"Obviously a pretty wild night. I want to start by thanking the community and the student section. I thought it was as cool an atmosphere as we've had since we've been here. I thank the people at Adidas for such an awesome promotion and evening. I thought the atmosphere was great. Hopefully they enjoyed some good volleyball. Hats off to Oklahoma; I thought they just stayed tougher, longer. Especially in the serve and pass game, I thought they did a really good job of putting a lot of pressure on our serve/receive and we broke down a bit offensively. Kind of our worst offensive performance of the year. I don't know if that's personnel, or lineups, or Oklahoma being pretty darn good. Obviously one we wish we could've had back.

Thought it was really good volleyball for three games, and in the fourth game I thought it was pretty disappointing. Our effort was pretty disappointing. Then we tried to get the starters back in the fifth game to make a run at it, and there were one or two crucial plays in it where, you know, an overturned call, a ball-handling call, and we just kind of ran out of runway. On the whole I thought it was a great college volleyball match. Congrats to Oklahoma. I think they'll have a great year; they have a great staff. Those kids played hard. We get back in the gym tomorrow to get ready for a very cagey, and bright Yale team."