Women's Volleyball Forces Four-Set Match With Ohio State

Wednesday, October 23

Columbus, OH

6:00 PM

Rutgers University

6-14, 0-9B1G

Ohio State

11-10, 4-5B1G

Rutgers

Ohio State

Photo by: (Ben Solomon/Rutgers Athletics)

Women's Volleyball Forces Four-Set Match With Ohio State

Oct 23 | Women's Volleyball

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Scarlet Knights Lead Entire Third Set

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Rutgers women's volleyball team closed out the season series with Ohio State playing the Buckeyes in a tight four-set match in front of the BTN cameras on Wednesday night at the Covelli Center. The Scarlet Knights (6-14, 0-9 Big Ten) dropped the first two sets by scores of 25-20 and 25-18 before leading the entire third set 25-18. The Buckeyes (11-10, 4-5 Big Ten) took the fourth set 25-20 for the win.

STANDOUT STATS

Junior Beka Kojadinovic led RU with nine kills, including a .500 hitting percentage in RU's third set win, along with 10 digs.
Senior middle Stasa Miljevic led the game with seven block assists.
Sophomore setter Inna Balyko held direct the offense with 29 assists.
Senior libero Karysa Swackenberg collected 12 digs and a pair of aces that sealed the third set victory.

KEY MOMENTS

Set 1 | After going ahead 20-10, the Buckeyes had to fight off a late 7-3 rally by the Scarlet Knights to take the first set, 25-20.
Set 2 | Rutgers opened with a 3-1 lead before Ohio State went in front with five-straight points. Trailing 18-8, the Scarlet Knights scored six-straight points. RU continued the pressure and outscored the Buckeyes, 9-2, to close the gap to within three, 20-17, before OSU took the set, 25-18.
Set 3 |Inna Balyko served up a pair of aces to help Rutgers open with the 4-0 edge and grew the advantage to 9-3 before the Buckeyes called time. A 6-0 run by RU capped by the ace from Beka Kojadinovic saw the Scarlet Knights pull ahead 12-3. The Scarlet Knights grew its lead to 19-11 before a Buckeyes surge saw RU holding on to a 21-18 lead. Rutgers denied any more OSU points and Karysa Swackenberg put away the set with back-to-back aces for the 25-18 win.
Set 4 | The final set opened with three ties and two lead changes before the Buckeyes rattled off four consecutive points to take the lead for good. Ohio State held a 21-14 advantage, which RU managed to whittle down to four. It took OSU five chances at set point before earning the 25-20 victory.

KNIGHT NOTES

With her 29 assists, Inna Balyko moved up to eighth all-time in assists past Roxy Calder (2005-08) and currently has 1,663.
Karysa Swackenberg moved up to fourth on the all-time digs list with 1,194, surpassing Dawn Christjaener (2001-02) and needs just two more to move up the list into third.
Ohio State's .129 attack percentage was the lowest by a Scarlet Knight Big Ten opponent this season.

UP NEXT

The Rutgers women's volleyball team is back home at the College Ave. Gym to host Northwestern on Sunday, Oct. 27 at 1 p.m.

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