Ball State University Athletics
Ball State University
0-2
Dayton
2-0
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | Final F |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ball State | 17 | 16 | 14 | 0 |
| Dayton | 25 | 25 | 25 | 3 |
Dayton Sweeps WVB In First Of Two Saturday Matches
August 29, 2009 | Women's Volleyball
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - - With two of its top passers out of the line-up due to injury, the Ball State (0-2) women's volleyball team struggled to find its rhythm in a 3-0 (25-17, 25-16, 25-14) loss to Dayton (2-0) in the first of two Saturday matches in the Mortar Board Premier Tournament hosted by Purdue.
Missing in the BSU line-up were juniors Hannah Sullivan (New Albany, Ind./New Albany H.S.) and Alyssa Rio (Wayne, Ill./St. Francis H.S.).
One bright spot for the Cardinals came late in the second set when senior Julie Breivogel (Boonville, Ind./Boonville H.S.) became just the 10th player in program history to record 1,000 career kills when she smashed an attack off the Dayton block. Breivogel ended the match with five kills to raise her career total to an even 1,000.
Fellow senior Alisha Green (Country Club Hills, Ill./Hillcrest H.S.) paced the Ball State attack with seven kills. Dayton's Rachel Krabacher was the matches' top scorer, racking up 17 kills, while helping the Flyers hold a .349 (40-10-86) to .073 (25-19-82) overall attacking advantage.
The teams opened the match by trading four-point runs, before a surge from the Flyers forced the Cardinals to call timeout trailing 10-5. A kill from Green after the break cut the UD advantage to four, but Dayton tacked on the next five points and pulled ahead by eight at 15-7. However, three kills from Breivogel helped lead a five-point BSU run which cut the Dayton advantage to 16-12.
Ball State drew within three points moments later after another Green kill, followed by a Dayton ball handling error, moved the score to 19-16. The Flyers responded with six of the next seven points, going on to win the set 25-17 on a block from Lindsay Fletemier and Amanda Cowdrey.
After falling behind 3-1 early in the second set, the Cardinals grabbed their first lead of the afternoon as Brittany McGinnis (Fraser, Mich./Fraser H.S.), Charde' Phillips (Elyria, Ohio/Elyria H.S.) and Green connected for three straight kills to make the score 4-3. From there, the teams traded several one-point leads as the score moved to a 12-12 deadlock.
Dayton followed with the next five points, pulling ahead 17-12. The Cardinals would get no closer than four points the rest of the frame, falling 25-16. At the 19-15 mark of the frame, Breivogel notched her 1,000th career kill by tooling the Dayton block.
The Flyers carried over the momentum in the third set, scoring the first five points on the way to a 25-14 frame victory.
Ball State concludes play in the Mortar Board Premier tournament later this afternoon with a 5 p.m. match versus Coastal Carolina.
