Michigan
16-8,6-7Big Ten
Ohio State
11-12,4-9Big Ten
Wolverines Drop Five-Set Home Match to Ohio State
11/8/2024 11:03:00 PM | Volleyball
» Michigan lost to Ohio State in five sets, winning the second and fourth sets.
» Jacque Boney tallied a career-high 16 kills and added six block assists.
» Morgan Burke and Valentina Vaulet each had a double-double.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- In a sold-out Cliff Keen Arena, the University of Michigan volleyball team fell to Ohio State in a five-set battle (20-25, 25-21, 20-25, 25-21, 7-15) on Friday night (Nov. 8) at Cliff Keen Arena.
Michigan (16-8, 6-7 Big Ten) was led by a career night from Jacque Boney who tallied a career-high 16 kills and added six block assists. Morgan Burke and Valentina Vaulet both had double-doubles, with Burke tallying 49 assists and 10 digs and Vaulet registering 10 kills and 10 digs. Kendyl Reaugh was the third Wolverine to tally double-digit kills with 14. Maddi Cuchran led the team with 14 digs.
Ohio State (11-12, 4-9 Big Ten) opened the match on a 3-1 run, but Michigan tied the match at four. U-M kept it close until a five-point OSU run put the Buckeyes up 12-7. The Wolverines came back after some strong plays from Serena Nyambio with a kill and block and an ace from Cuchran that pulled U-M within 14-13. Ohio State held a slim lead, but a kill from Ella Demetrician and OSU error tied the match at 18. The teams traded the next two points before the Buckeyes ended the first set on a 6-1 run to win 25-20.
Boney opened the second set with a kill, one of seven in the set with no errors, as U-M got out to a 4-1 lead. OSU tied the match at four and five, but Michigan remained in front for the rest of the set. Nyambio and Vaulet tallied a block to put U-M up 7-5 and kills from Reaugh and Vaulet forced an OSU timeout at 11-7. Vaulet extended the Michigan lead with an ace and back-to-back kills from Boney led to the second Ohio State timeout of the set at 17-11. U-M closed out the second set with a block from Demetrician and Boney to secure a 25-21 set win.
The third set was the hardest-fought set of the match with six lead changes and 14 tied scores. With the first 20 points of the set going back and forth, Ohio State was the first to get a two-point lead at 12-10, but U-M countered with a kill from Boney and an ace from Vaulet to tie the match. The two teams then split the next six points before a 4-0 OSU run put it in the lead. The Buckeyes kept the lead for the rest of the set and won 25-20.
Michigan started strong in the fourth set with a 9-4 opening run to force an early OSU timeout with Demetrician tallying three straight kills during the run. Out of the timeout, Nyambio and Vaulet combined on a block, but the Buckeyes hung around. OSU brought the score to 14-11 -- which forced the first U-M timeout of the set -- and later tied the set at 18 to force the second. Reaugh recorded a kill out of the timeout and an ace from Cuchran put Michigan up 20-18. The Wolverines took the remaining five points they needed with Boney recording the final two kills in a 25-21 set win.
Reaugh opened the fifth set with a kill and after a service error, Boney put Michigan back in front, but the Buckeyes responded and tied the set at two. OSU then went on a 6-1 run for an 8-3 lead. A kill from Demetrician ended the run, but Ohio State did not give up the lead and won the fifth set 15-7.
The Wolverines travel to West Lafayette, Ind., for a match against Purdue on Sunday (Nov. 10) at 1 p.m. The match will be streamed live on B1G+.
