Post by weaver on Dec 11, 2004 0:53:41 GMT -5
Fifth-seeded Women's Volleyball Rallies To Defeat No. 12 Tennessee in Five Games
Ohio State's Stacey Gordon scores a match-high 38 points, scoring OSU's final four kills for the victory.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Down two games to none to 12th-seed Tennessee (32-3 overall), the fifth-seeded Ohio State (30-3) women's volleyball team rallied to win the final three games for a 3-2 (29-31, 27-30, 30-16, 30-26, 15-12) victory in the NCAA Championship Regional Semifinals in the Sports Pavilion on the University of Minnesota campus. The Buckeyes will face Big Ten foe No. 4 seed Minnesota (31-4), a 3-2 (25-30, 30-22, 30-24, 46-48, 15-9) winner over Georgia Tech (27-7) in the second semifinal, Saturday night at 8 p.m. ET. The match will be carried live by College Sports Television (CSTV). Ohio State's Stacey Gordon (Sr., Oshawa, Ontario) scored a match-high 38 points for the Buckeyes with Maya Mapp (Sr., Washington, D.C.) adding 22 and Ami Stevens (Fr., Centerburg, Ohio) 20. Gordon had a match-high 35 kills (.316) with an ace serve, a solo block and two assists. She scored the final four OSU kills in game five for the win. Mapp had a season-high 19 kills (.350) with six assist blocks and Meyer added 15 kills, an ace serve, two solo blocks and four assists. Tennessee's Michelle Piantadosi had a team-high 27.5 points for the Lady Vols with Yuliya Stoyanova adding 15.5. Piantadosi recorded a team-high 26 kills (.350) and had three assist blocks while Stoyanova had 14 kills and three assist blocks.
Tennessee opened game one with a 3-0 lead off three OSU errors. Trailing 5-1, two kills by Danielle Meyer (Fr., Cincinnati, Ohio), one from Marisa Main (So., Louisville, Ky.) and a Tennessee error tied the game at five. Tied at seven, an Stevens kill and a Tennessee error gave the Buckeyes a 9-8 lead. At 11-10, OSU, A Vol error and kills from Gordon and Meyer made it 14-10. A Sarah Blum kill and an OSU error cut the lead to 14-12. A Gordon kill made it 15-12. Tennessee, with three OSU errors tied the game at 15. Tied at 17, a Mapp kill made it 18-17. Tennessee, with kills by Andre Kristen and Michelle Piantadosi took the lead at 19-19. Gordon tied the game at 19 with a kill. Piantadosi gave Tennessee a 21-20 lead with a kill. Buckeye kills by Briana McCarthy (So., Beaver Dam, Wis.), Gordon and Meyer put OSU ahead, 23-21. At 25-23, two kills by Amy Morris tied the game at 25. OSU went up 26-25 with a Stevens kills. Tennessee tied the game at 26 with a block by Kristen Andre and Julie Knytych. A Stevens kill and an OSU error moved the score to 27-all. A Gordon kill made it 28-27, OSU. Piantadosi tied the game at 28 with a kill. OSU reached game points with a kill from Meyer at 29-28. Blum's kill tied the game at 29. Back-to-back ace serves from Whitney Gifford ended the game in favor of Tennessee, 31-29. The Lady Vols hit .255 for the game to .242 for OSU.
Tied at seven in game two, a kill and ace serve by Amy Morris, an OSU error and a Piantadosi kill opened an 11-7 Tennessee lead. Two OSU kills by Mapp and Tennessee kills by Piantadosi and Blum made it 13-9. Two more Piantadosi kills and an OSU error made it 16-9 Tennessee. Kills by Meyer and Stoyanova made it 17-10. A Lady Vol error and kills by Gordon, Stevens and Meyer cut the Tennessee lead to 17-14. Kills by Blum and Meyer made it 18-15. A Stoyanova kill and a block by Main and Mapp moved the score to 19-16, Tennessee. A Morris kill took the lead to four at 20-16 for the Lady Vols. A four-point Buckeye rally tied the game at 20. Kills by Stevens and Gordon started the run. A Gordon-Mapp block and a Mapp kill tied the game at 20. Tennessee regained the lead at 22-20 with an Andre kill and a block by Blum and Knytych. After kills from Gordon and Piantadosi (23-21), a Meyer kill cut the lead to one at 23-22. A Blum kill and a Tennessee service error made it 24-23. Two kills by Stoyanova gave Tennessee a 26-23 lead. A Stevens kill made it 26-24. A Stoyanova and Andre block made it 27-24. A Mapp kill cut the margin to 27-25. Andre's kill made it 28-25. OSU made it a one-point game with a Mapp kill and a McCarthy-Mapp block at 28-27. Tennessee closed out the game with kills from Piantadosi and Knytych for a 30-27 win and a 2-0 lead in the match. Tennessee hit .372 for the game to .357 for the Buckeyes.
Down 0-2 in the match, Ohio State opened game three with a Mapp kill and a McCarthy-Mapp block for a 2-0 lead. A Blum kill cut the lead to 2-1. Ohio State scored the next five points to open up a 7-1 lead. The run contained two Gordon kills, kills from McCarthy and Mapp and a Tennessee error. Stoyanova stopped the run with a kill at 7-2. A Mapp kill made it 8-2 but another Stoyanova kill made it 8-3. OSU took a 10-3 lead off a Gordon kill and a Meyer solo block. After a UT timeout, Stoyanova, with a kill, made it 10-4. Another five-point run by the Buckeyes took the score to 15-4. The run had two kills from Gordon, two from Stevens and one from Main. An OSU service error stopped the run at 15-5. A Stevens kill and a UT error made it 17-5. A Buckeye error and a Mapp kill made it 18-6. Another Buckeye error made it 18-7. A Stevens kill and an OSU error moved the score to 19-8. A McCarthy kill and an OSU error made it 20-9. A Gordon kill and a block by Meyer and Gordon made it 22-9. A UT kill by Gifford with a Buckeye block by Meyer and Main put the score at 23-10. Kills by Gifford and Main made it 24-11. A Piantadosi kill made it 24-12. A Tennessee error and a Stevens kill made it 26-12. An OSU service error made it 26-13. Kills by Mapp and Stoyanova moved the score to 27-14. A Gifford kill and two from Gordon set match point at 29-16. Gordon's kill ended the game at 30-16 and made the Tennessee lead 2-1 in games. Ohio State hit .500 for the game to .049 for Tennessee.
After kills by Meyer and Stoyanova tied game four at 1, Ohio State scored six straight points to open a 7-1 lead. A Meyer kill and a Tennessee error started the run. Kills by Stevens and Main, a Stevens-Map block and a Main kill completed the run. Kills by Andre and Mapp made it 8-2. Two Piantadosi kills cut the OSU lead to 8-4. Kills by Stevens and Piantadosi made it 9-5. OSU took the lead to 12-5 with a kill by Mapp, a Meyer-McCarthy block and a UT error. Piantadosi stopped the run with a kill at 12-6. A Gordon kill, a block by Meyer and Main and a UT error made it 15-6, OSU. A Tennessee block by Stoyanova and Blum made it 15-7. Back-to-back service errors made it 16-9. A four-point Tennessee run cut the OSU lead to 16-12. Kills by Andre and Stoyanova started the run. An OSU error and a Morris kill made it 16-12. A Meyer kill and an OSU error made it 17-13. A Tennessee error made it 18-13. Two OSU errors and a Piantadosi kill cut the lead to 18-15. Kills by Mapp and Piantadosi moved the score to 19-16. An OSU error and a Gordon kill made it 20-17. A Stoyanova kill and a Morris-Blum block cut the OSU lead to one at 20-19. A UT error and a Gordon kill made it 22-19, OSU. Stoyanova and Yuliya combined for a block to made it 22-20. Kills by Gordon and Andre moved the score to 23-21. The Buckeyes made it 25-21 with kills by Meyer and Stevens. Tennessee responded with kills from Andre and Piantadosi to cut the lead to 25-23. Kills by Mapp and Knytych moved the score to 26-24. Stevens and Piantadosi added kills to make it 27-25. Two Gordon kills set game point at 29-25. Blum stopped the game point with a kill at 29-26.. Meyer closed out the game with a kill for a 30-26 Buckeye win, tying the match at two games each. Ohio State hit .286 for the game to .265 for Tennessee.
Tennessee opened the scoring in game five with a Piantadosi kill. Gordon's kill tied the game at one. A Blum-Knytych block put UT ahead, 2-1. A UT error tied the game at two. Kills by Main and Piantadosi moved the score to three-all. A solo block by Meyer and a Stevens kill gave OSU a 5-3 lead. Two Stoyanova kills tied the game at five. Meyer scored with a kill and ace serve for a 7-5 OSU lead. An Andre kill cut the lead to 7-6. Ohio State opened a 10-6 lead with a Mapp kill, a McCarthy-Mapp block and another Mapp kill. Tennessee responded with a Morris kill, an Andre-Piantadosi block, a Piantadosi kill and an OSU error to tie the game at 10. A kill from Stevens gave OSU an 11-10 lead. Tennessee tied the game at 11 with a Piantadosi kill. Back-to-back Gordon kills gave the Buckeyes a 13-11 lead. A Piantadosi kill cut the lead to 13-12. Gordon closed out the game with back-to-back kills for a 15-12 OSU win, taking the match, 3-2. The Buckeyes hit .286 for the game to .222 for Tennessee.
Ohio State hit .324 for the match to .237 for Tennessee. The Buckeyes had a season-high 98 kills in the match to 76 for the Lady Vols. Tennessee had a three-to-two margin in ace serves while OSU gave up eight service errors to five for the Lady Vols. Defensively, Ohio State recorded a season-high 104 digs to 82 for Tennessee. OSU's Stevens recorded a match and career-high 27 digs for the Buckeyes. At the net, OSU had a 13 to 11 advantage in team blocks. Tennessee's Blum had a match-high eight assist blocks in the contest. Ohio State's Main recorded a career-high 86 assists in the match to Knytych's 61.
Ohio State's Stacey Gordon scores a match-high 38 points, scoring OSU's final four kills for the victory.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Down two games to none to 12th-seed Tennessee (32-3 overall), the fifth-seeded Ohio State (30-3) women's volleyball team rallied to win the final three games for a 3-2 (29-31, 27-30, 30-16, 30-26, 15-12) victory in the NCAA Championship Regional Semifinals in the Sports Pavilion on the University of Minnesota campus. The Buckeyes will face Big Ten foe No. 4 seed Minnesota (31-4), a 3-2 (25-30, 30-22, 30-24, 46-48, 15-9) winner over Georgia Tech (27-7) in the second semifinal, Saturday night at 8 p.m. ET. The match will be carried live by College Sports Television (CSTV). Ohio State's Stacey Gordon (Sr., Oshawa, Ontario) scored a match-high 38 points for the Buckeyes with Maya Mapp (Sr., Washington, D.C.) adding 22 and Ami Stevens (Fr., Centerburg, Ohio) 20. Gordon had a match-high 35 kills (.316) with an ace serve, a solo block and two assists. She scored the final four OSU kills in game five for the win. Mapp had a season-high 19 kills (.350) with six assist blocks and Meyer added 15 kills, an ace serve, two solo blocks and four assists. Tennessee's Michelle Piantadosi had a team-high 27.5 points for the Lady Vols with Yuliya Stoyanova adding 15.5. Piantadosi recorded a team-high 26 kills (.350) and had three assist blocks while Stoyanova had 14 kills and three assist blocks.
Tennessee opened game one with a 3-0 lead off three OSU errors. Trailing 5-1, two kills by Danielle Meyer (Fr., Cincinnati, Ohio), one from Marisa Main (So., Louisville, Ky.) and a Tennessee error tied the game at five. Tied at seven, an Stevens kill and a Tennessee error gave the Buckeyes a 9-8 lead. At 11-10, OSU, A Vol error and kills from Gordon and Meyer made it 14-10. A Sarah Blum kill and an OSU error cut the lead to 14-12. A Gordon kill made it 15-12. Tennessee, with three OSU errors tied the game at 15. Tied at 17, a Mapp kill made it 18-17. Tennessee, with kills by Andre Kristen and Michelle Piantadosi took the lead at 19-19. Gordon tied the game at 19 with a kill. Piantadosi gave Tennessee a 21-20 lead with a kill. Buckeye kills by Briana McCarthy (So., Beaver Dam, Wis.), Gordon and Meyer put OSU ahead, 23-21. At 25-23, two kills by Amy Morris tied the game at 25. OSU went up 26-25 with a Stevens kills. Tennessee tied the game at 26 with a block by Kristen Andre and Julie Knytych. A Stevens kill and an OSU error moved the score to 27-all. A Gordon kill made it 28-27, OSU. Piantadosi tied the game at 28 with a kill. OSU reached game points with a kill from Meyer at 29-28. Blum's kill tied the game at 29. Back-to-back ace serves from Whitney Gifford ended the game in favor of Tennessee, 31-29. The Lady Vols hit .255 for the game to .242 for OSU.
Tied at seven in game two, a kill and ace serve by Amy Morris, an OSU error and a Piantadosi kill opened an 11-7 Tennessee lead. Two OSU kills by Mapp and Tennessee kills by Piantadosi and Blum made it 13-9. Two more Piantadosi kills and an OSU error made it 16-9 Tennessee. Kills by Meyer and Stoyanova made it 17-10. A Lady Vol error and kills by Gordon, Stevens and Meyer cut the Tennessee lead to 17-14. Kills by Blum and Meyer made it 18-15. A Stoyanova kill and a block by Main and Mapp moved the score to 19-16, Tennessee. A Morris kill took the lead to four at 20-16 for the Lady Vols. A four-point Buckeye rally tied the game at 20. Kills by Stevens and Gordon started the run. A Gordon-Mapp block and a Mapp kill tied the game at 20. Tennessee regained the lead at 22-20 with an Andre kill and a block by Blum and Knytych. After kills from Gordon and Piantadosi (23-21), a Meyer kill cut the lead to one at 23-22. A Blum kill and a Tennessee service error made it 24-23. Two kills by Stoyanova gave Tennessee a 26-23 lead. A Stevens kill made it 26-24. A Stoyanova and Andre block made it 27-24. A Mapp kill cut the margin to 27-25. Andre's kill made it 28-25. OSU made it a one-point game with a Mapp kill and a McCarthy-Mapp block at 28-27. Tennessee closed out the game with kills from Piantadosi and Knytych for a 30-27 win and a 2-0 lead in the match. Tennessee hit .372 for the game to .357 for the Buckeyes.
Down 0-2 in the match, Ohio State opened game three with a Mapp kill and a McCarthy-Mapp block for a 2-0 lead. A Blum kill cut the lead to 2-1. Ohio State scored the next five points to open up a 7-1 lead. The run contained two Gordon kills, kills from McCarthy and Mapp and a Tennessee error. Stoyanova stopped the run with a kill at 7-2. A Mapp kill made it 8-2 but another Stoyanova kill made it 8-3. OSU took a 10-3 lead off a Gordon kill and a Meyer solo block. After a UT timeout, Stoyanova, with a kill, made it 10-4. Another five-point run by the Buckeyes took the score to 15-4. The run had two kills from Gordon, two from Stevens and one from Main. An OSU service error stopped the run at 15-5. A Stevens kill and a UT error made it 17-5. A Buckeye error and a Mapp kill made it 18-6. Another Buckeye error made it 18-7. A Stevens kill and an OSU error moved the score to 19-8. A McCarthy kill and an OSU error made it 20-9. A Gordon kill and a block by Meyer and Gordon made it 22-9. A UT kill by Gifford with a Buckeye block by Meyer and Main put the score at 23-10. Kills by Gifford and Main made it 24-11. A Piantadosi kill made it 24-12. A Tennessee error and a Stevens kill made it 26-12. An OSU service error made it 26-13. Kills by Mapp and Stoyanova moved the score to 27-14. A Gifford kill and two from Gordon set match point at 29-16. Gordon's kill ended the game at 30-16 and made the Tennessee lead 2-1 in games. Ohio State hit .500 for the game to .049 for Tennessee.
After kills by Meyer and Stoyanova tied game four at 1, Ohio State scored six straight points to open a 7-1 lead. A Meyer kill and a Tennessee error started the run. Kills by Stevens and Main, a Stevens-Map block and a Main kill completed the run. Kills by Andre and Mapp made it 8-2. Two Piantadosi kills cut the OSU lead to 8-4. Kills by Stevens and Piantadosi made it 9-5. OSU took the lead to 12-5 with a kill by Mapp, a Meyer-McCarthy block and a UT error. Piantadosi stopped the run with a kill at 12-6. A Gordon kill, a block by Meyer and Main and a UT error made it 15-6, OSU. A Tennessee block by Stoyanova and Blum made it 15-7. Back-to-back service errors made it 16-9. A four-point Tennessee run cut the OSU lead to 16-12. Kills by Andre and Stoyanova started the run. An OSU error and a Morris kill made it 16-12. A Meyer kill and an OSU error made it 17-13. A Tennessee error made it 18-13. Two OSU errors and a Piantadosi kill cut the lead to 18-15. Kills by Mapp and Piantadosi moved the score to 19-16. An OSU error and a Gordon kill made it 20-17. A Stoyanova kill and a Morris-Blum block cut the OSU lead to one at 20-19. A UT error and a Gordon kill made it 22-19, OSU. Stoyanova and Yuliya combined for a block to made it 22-20. Kills by Gordon and Andre moved the score to 23-21. The Buckeyes made it 25-21 with kills by Meyer and Stevens. Tennessee responded with kills from Andre and Piantadosi to cut the lead to 25-23. Kills by Mapp and Knytych moved the score to 26-24. Stevens and Piantadosi added kills to make it 27-25. Two Gordon kills set game point at 29-25. Blum stopped the game point with a kill at 29-26.. Meyer closed out the game with a kill for a 30-26 Buckeye win, tying the match at two games each. Ohio State hit .286 for the game to .265 for Tennessee.
Tennessee opened the scoring in game five with a Piantadosi kill. Gordon's kill tied the game at one. A Blum-Knytych block put UT ahead, 2-1. A UT error tied the game at two. Kills by Main and Piantadosi moved the score to three-all. A solo block by Meyer and a Stevens kill gave OSU a 5-3 lead. Two Stoyanova kills tied the game at five. Meyer scored with a kill and ace serve for a 7-5 OSU lead. An Andre kill cut the lead to 7-6. Ohio State opened a 10-6 lead with a Mapp kill, a McCarthy-Mapp block and another Mapp kill. Tennessee responded with a Morris kill, an Andre-Piantadosi block, a Piantadosi kill and an OSU error to tie the game at 10. A kill from Stevens gave OSU an 11-10 lead. Tennessee tied the game at 11 with a Piantadosi kill. Back-to-back Gordon kills gave the Buckeyes a 13-11 lead. A Piantadosi kill cut the lead to 13-12. Gordon closed out the game with back-to-back kills for a 15-12 OSU win, taking the match, 3-2. The Buckeyes hit .286 for the game to .222 for Tennessee.
Ohio State hit .324 for the match to .237 for Tennessee. The Buckeyes had a season-high 98 kills in the match to 76 for the Lady Vols. Tennessee had a three-to-two margin in ace serves while OSU gave up eight service errors to five for the Lady Vols. Defensively, Ohio State recorded a season-high 104 digs to 82 for Tennessee. OSU's Stevens recorded a match and career-high 27 digs for the Buckeyes. At the net, OSU had a 13 to 11 advantage in team blocks. Tennessee's Blum had a match-high eight assist blocks in the contest. Ohio State's Main recorded a career-high 86 assists in the match to Knytych's 61.
I wish I was there to see it....