Michigan State University Athletics
Friday, October 12
College Park, MD
7 pm
Michigan State University
15-5, 3-4Big Ten
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at
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Maryland
12-7, 3-4Big Ten
1st set1
2nd set2
3rd set3
4th set4
5th set5
FinalF
Michigan State
25
25
22
23
15
3
Maryland
16
20
25
25
11
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Team Stats
MSU
UMD
Kills
68
62
Errors
19
25
Attempts
144
156
Hitting %
.340
.237
Points
80.0
75.0
Assists
61
58
Aces
2
8
Blocks
10.0
5.0
Game Leaders
Kills
19
Aces
0
Blocks
7
Kills
15
Aces
0
Blocks
1
Kills
13
Aces
0
Blocks
1
Players Mentioned
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MSU Takes Five-Setter In College Park
10/12/2018 9:45:00 PM | Volleyball
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Michigan State earned a hard-fought victory on the road at Maryland on Friday night, 3-2Â (25-16, 25-20, 22-25, 23-25, 15-11). The Spartans are now 15-5 and 3-4 in Conference play while the Terps fall to 12-7, 3-4.Â
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Maddie Haggerty had her second double-double of the season (15 kills, 12 digs) and Alyssa Chronowski hit .429 with 19 kills and a career-best seven blocks.  Both freshmen middles had 13 kills – Naya Gros added five blocks and three digs, while Poljan hit .346 to Gros' 333.Â
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After a decisive 25-16 decision in the opening period , the Spartans found themselves down by as many as five points in the second frame, 18-13. MSU rallied to put seven straight points on the board and posted a 15-4 run overall to close out the second set with a 25-20 win.  The Spartans trailed again in the third set – this time by five (20-15), but rallied back to take a 22-21 lead before Maryland closed it out with a 4-0 run. The fourth set went to the home team with an eye-popping 20 kills in the set, hitting .405 – while MSU hit a more-than respectable .385. The final set started out all MSU (8-2), with the Terps fighting back to within a pair before Gros and Chronowski closed it out.
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Ericka Pritchard finished with 24 kills and three service aces for the Terps, while Liz Twilley posted 13 terminations. Maryland hit .237 in the match.
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 "This was a battle, as every Big Ten match will be. We had to fight to take the second set, and then Maryland had to do the same thing to push it to five. There's no quit in this team – this was not only a good win, but a lot of good lessons for us too. We have an entire day to prepare for playing Ohio State, and I think that we'll have some good things to look at for tomorrow."Â
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 TOP PERFORMERS
• Alyssa Chronowski had 19 kills, hit .429, and established new career bests in solo (3) and total blocks (7)
• Maddie Haggerty set a new MSU career best with 15 kills and added 12 digs for her second double-double of the season.   Â
• Freshman setter Elena Shklyar had 58 assists, six digs, and an ace.   Â
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  STATS AND STORYLINES
• Lauryn Gibbs had her second double-digit kill effort in three matches, tying her career best with 12.   Â
• Naya Gros had 13 kills, five blocks, and hit .333  Â
• The Spartans had 10 blocks in the match, their 18th time in 20 matches they have had eight or more and their fifth straight with double-digit stuffs.  Â
• Michigan State hit .340 in the match, its best in a Big Ten game this season.
 • The Green & White had four players in double-digit kills and three in double-digit digs. In addition to Haggerty and Gibbs, Jamye Cox had 12 digs.Â
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 GAME REPLAY
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•  SET ONE: MSU  rode a .778 (7-0-9) hitting percentage to an early 8-4 lead, and held that advantage until the TV time out with MSU leading 15-11. The Spartans got there with a .571 hitting percentage (9-1-15) and a 75% sideout percentage. Maryland called time out at 18-13 and again at 20-13 to try to halt the MSU momentum, but the Spartans remained composed and balanced offensively. MSU closed it out by a 25-16 margin.  Lauren Swartz had four kills, while Haggerty and Gros each had three. The Spartans hit .500 (14-2-24) in the opening frame with two blocks, while the home team had eight errors that offset its 11 kills (.111).
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•  SET TWO:  The Terps came out with .714 hitting percentage (5-0-7) in the second set to establish a 7-5 lead, but a trio of service aces kept the home from establishing much momentum. The home team's largest lead of the match came at the media time out in the second set with a 15-10 advantage, hitting 10-1-18 (.500) compared to just four terminations on 14 swings for the Spartans (4-2-14, .143). MSU rebounded and pulled back within three on kills by Chronowski and Haggerty (x2), and Poljan buried an overpass that made it 18-15. After an error by Pritchard, Maryland called time out with its lead down to two, 18-16. Out of the break, a Maryland shot by Emma Schriner sailed long that brought MSU within a point, but the Terps challenged the call to see if there was a touch; the point remained with MSU. Trailing now by only a point, Haggerty put up a solo block on Pritchard to the the score, then put down a dagger into the back right corner that gave MSU its first lead of the set. The Spartans closed out the set on a 15-4 run overall to take a 2-0 match lead, behind five kills in the frame from Poljan and three each from both Haggerty and Chronowski. MSU rebounded from its early hitting woes to hit .345 (14-4-29), and added three blocks and 12 digs – four each for Jamye Cox and Lauryn Gibbs.  Pritchard had six kills and Twilley five for the home team, which hit .250.Â
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•  SET THREE:     The home team started off with another strong hitting performance in the third set, terminating six of its first eight swings to take an 11-8 advantage. The Terrapins tried to exend their lead, but the Spartans rallied to tie it at 14-14, getting a pair of kills from Gros and the tying point on a block from Swartz and Poljan. The Terps continued their strong hitting – they were 9-2-21 (.333) when they took a 15-14 lead to trigger the media time out – but were hampered with double-digit service errors on the night. Back-to-back kills by Pritchard and Schriner, followed by an MSU error, allowed the home team to go back up by three (18-15), and MSU called time out to regroup. A kill and an ace for the Terps out of the break made it a five-point edge, but a service error gave MSU the side out at 20-16. Chronowski came up with a solo block and and an error by the Terps allowed MSU back within two (20-18) – which forced the home team into a time out. MSU tied it at 20 on a kill by Chronowski, and the teams then engaged in a point-for-point battle. With the set tied at 22-all, Maryland got a kill from Pritchard, an ace by Allegra Rivas, and a Spartan error to take the third set 25-22. MSU's hitting percentage in the frame dropped to .194 (12-6-31), with as many errors as it had in the first two sets combined. Gros had four kills, while Chronowski added three with another solo block – her career-best third of the match. Â
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•  SET FOUR:   MSU took an early 6-4 advantage, and pushed it out to a four-point lead at 12-8 despite errors on both sides of the net, but a pair of key kills from Chronowski and Poljan. The Terps called their second time out of the frame with MSU leading 15-9, as MSU connected on 10 of its first 16 swings (hitting .562).  Two Pritchard kills and a service ace quickly helped the home team trim its deficit down to 15-13, and MSU responded out of its time out with a kill from Chronowski to stop the Terp run. It was a point-for-point battle, as the Spartans kept their lead alternating between two and three points, and won the race to 20 with a Poljan kill that made it a three-point lead (20-17). Rainelle Jones and Twilley put consecutive kills on the board to pull within a point. Down 22-21, the Terps sent each of its next four sets to Pritchard, and she connected on all four to close it out 25-23 to tie the match at 2-2. Alyssa Chronowski had eight kills without an error in the frame (8-0-13), and MSU hit .385 (18-3-39) – but Maryland had an eye-popping 20 kills on 42 swings with just three errors (.405). Pritchard had seven kills.Â
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•  SET FIVE:   Chronowski had two early kills for MSU as it built a 5-2 edge, and a tip by Swartz made it 6-2 which forced Maryland into a time out. The Spartan lead kept growing, with Swartz getting a kill on a soft tip and Gros putting up a solo stuff on Pritchard around a Terp hitting error to give MSU a commanding 8-2 lead at the crossover, hitting ..833 (5-0-6).   After the Terps cut it to four, MSU got kills from Haggerty and Swartz to make it a 10-5 edge. Up 13-11, Gros put down a kill inside the line and then teamed up with Chronowski for a block to seal the win. MSU hit .286 in the final frame, compiling 10 kills and three blocks – Gros with two kills and three stuffs (one solo), and Chronowski three kills and two blocks.Â
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Michigan State earned a hard-fought victory on the road at Maryland on Friday night, 3-2Â (25-16, 25-20, 22-25, 23-25, 15-11). The Spartans are now 15-5 and 3-4 in Conference play while the Terps fall to 12-7, 3-4.Â
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Maddie Haggerty had her second double-double of the season (15 kills, 12 digs) and Alyssa Chronowski hit .429 with 19 kills and a career-best seven blocks.  Both freshmen middles had 13 kills – Naya Gros added five blocks and three digs, while Poljan hit .346 to Gros' 333.Â
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After a decisive 25-16 decision in the opening period , the Spartans found themselves down by as many as five points in the second frame, 18-13. MSU rallied to put seven straight points on the board and posted a 15-4 run overall to close out the second set with a 25-20 win.  The Spartans trailed again in the third set – this time by five (20-15), but rallied back to take a 22-21 lead before Maryland closed it out with a 4-0 run. The fourth set went to the home team with an eye-popping 20 kills in the set, hitting .405 – while MSU hit a more-than respectable .385. The final set started out all MSU (8-2), with the Terps fighting back to within a pair before Gros and Chronowski closed it out.
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Ericka Pritchard finished with 24 kills and three service aces for the Terps, while Liz Twilley posted 13 terminations. Maryland hit .237 in the match.
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MSU is back in action on Sunday, when it plays a 1 pm matinee at Ohio State that will air live on ESPNU.  Â
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 QUOTABLE
 "This was a battle, as every Big Ten match will be. We had to fight to take the second set, and then Maryland had to do the same thing to push it to five. There's no quit in this team – this was not only a good win, but a lot of good lessons for us too. We have an entire day to prepare for playing Ohio State, and I think that we'll have some good things to look at for tomorrow."Â
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 - Head Coach Cathy GeorgeÂ
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 TOP PERFORMERS
• Alyssa Chronowski had 19 kills, hit .429, and established new career bests in solo (3) and total blocks (7)
• Maddie Haggerty set a new MSU career best with 15 kills and added 12 digs for her second double-double of the season.   Â
• Freshman setter Elena Shklyar had 58 assists, six digs, and an ace.   Â
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  STATS AND STORYLINES
• Lauryn Gibbs had her second double-digit kill effort in three matches, tying her career best with 12.   Â
• Naya Gros had 13 kills, five blocks, and hit .333  Â
• The Spartans had 10 blocks in the match, their 18th time in 20 matches they have had eight or more and their fifth straight with double-digit stuffs.  Â
• Michigan State hit .340 in the match, its best in a Big Ten game this season.
 • The Green & White had four players in double-digit kills and three in double-digit digs. In addition to Haggerty and Gibbs, Jamye Cox had 12 digs.Â
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 GAME REPLAY
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•  SET ONE: MSU  rode a .778 (7-0-9) hitting percentage to an early 8-4 lead, and held that advantage until the TV time out with MSU leading 15-11. The Spartans got there with a .571 hitting percentage (9-1-15) and a 75% sideout percentage. Maryland called time out at 18-13 and again at 20-13 to try to halt the MSU momentum, but the Spartans remained composed and balanced offensively. MSU closed it out by a 25-16 margin.  Lauren Swartz had four kills, while Haggerty and Gros each had three. The Spartans hit .500 (14-2-24) in the opening frame with two blocks, while the home team had eight errors that offset its 11 kills (.111).
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•  SET TWO:  The Terps came out with .714 hitting percentage (5-0-7) in the second set to establish a 7-5 lead, but a trio of service aces kept the home from establishing much momentum. The home team's largest lead of the match came at the media time out in the second set with a 15-10 advantage, hitting 10-1-18 (.500) compared to just four terminations on 14 swings for the Spartans (4-2-14, .143). MSU rebounded and pulled back within three on kills by Chronowski and Haggerty (x2), and Poljan buried an overpass that made it 18-15. After an error by Pritchard, Maryland called time out with its lead down to two, 18-16. Out of the break, a Maryland shot by Emma Schriner sailed long that brought MSU within a point, but the Terps challenged the call to see if there was a touch; the point remained with MSU. Trailing now by only a point, Haggerty put up a solo block on Pritchard to the the score, then put down a dagger into the back right corner that gave MSU its first lead of the set. The Spartans closed out the set on a 15-4 run overall to take a 2-0 match lead, behind five kills in the frame from Poljan and three each from both Haggerty and Chronowski. MSU rebounded from its early hitting woes to hit .345 (14-4-29), and added three blocks and 12 digs – four each for Jamye Cox and Lauryn Gibbs.  Pritchard had six kills and Twilley five for the home team, which hit .250.Â
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•  SET THREE:     The home team started off with another strong hitting performance in the third set, terminating six of its first eight swings to take an 11-8 advantage. The Terrapins tried to exend their lead, but the Spartans rallied to tie it at 14-14, getting a pair of kills from Gros and the tying point on a block from Swartz and Poljan. The Terps continued their strong hitting – they were 9-2-21 (.333) when they took a 15-14 lead to trigger the media time out – but were hampered with double-digit service errors on the night. Back-to-back kills by Pritchard and Schriner, followed by an MSU error, allowed the home team to go back up by three (18-15), and MSU called time out to regroup. A kill and an ace for the Terps out of the break made it a five-point edge, but a service error gave MSU the side out at 20-16. Chronowski came up with a solo block and and an error by the Terps allowed MSU back within two (20-18) – which forced the home team into a time out. MSU tied it at 20 on a kill by Chronowski, and the teams then engaged in a point-for-point battle. With the set tied at 22-all, Maryland got a kill from Pritchard, an ace by Allegra Rivas, and a Spartan error to take the third set 25-22. MSU's hitting percentage in the frame dropped to .194 (12-6-31), with as many errors as it had in the first two sets combined. Gros had four kills, while Chronowski added three with another solo block – her career-best third of the match. Â
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•  SET FOUR:   MSU took an early 6-4 advantage, and pushed it out to a four-point lead at 12-8 despite errors on both sides of the net, but a pair of key kills from Chronowski and Poljan. The Terps called their second time out of the frame with MSU leading 15-9, as MSU connected on 10 of its first 16 swings (hitting .562).  Two Pritchard kills and a service ace quickly helped the home team trim its deficit down to 15-13, and MSU responded out of its time out with a kill from Chronowski to stop the Terp run. It was a point-for-point battle, as the Spartans kept their lead alternating between two and three points, and won the race to 20 with a Poljan kill that made it a three-point lead (20-17). Rainelle Jones and Twilley put consecutive kills on the board to pull within a point. Down 22-21, the Terps sent each of its next four sets to Pritchard, and she connected on all four to close it out 25-23 to tie the match at 2-2. Alyssa Chronowski had eight kills without an error in the frame (8-0-13), and MSU hit .385 (18-3-39) – but Maryland had an eye-popping 20 kills on 42 swings with just three errors (.405). Pritchard had seven kills.Â
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•  SET FIVE:   Chronowski had two early kills for MSU as it built a 5-2 edge, and a tip by Swartz made it 6-2 which forced Maryland into a time out. The Spartan lead kept growing, with Swartz getting a kill on a soft tip and Gros putting up a solo stuff on Pritchard around a Terp hitting error to give MSU a commanding 8-2 lead at the crossover, hitting ..833 (5-0-6).   After the Terps cut it to four, MSU got kills from Haggerty and Swartz to make it a 10-5 edge. Up 13-11, Gros put down a kill inside the line and then teamed up with Chronowski for a block to seal the win. MSU hit .286 in the final frame, compiling 10 kills and three blocks – Gros with two kills and three stuffs (one solo), and Chronowski three kills and two blocks.Â
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