Friday, October 5
East Lansing, MI
7 pm
Michigan State University
14-4, 2-3Big Ten
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vs
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Indiana
11-5, 2-3Big Ten
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2
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4
5
F
Indiana
20
25
23
25
13
2
Michigan State
25
23
25
19
15
3
Team Stats
IND
MSU
Kills
54
74
Errors
19
36
Attempts
160
186
Hitting %
.219
.204
Points
77.0
88.0
Assists
53
68
Aces
4
4
Blocks
19.0
10.0
Game Leaders
Kills
25
Aces
0
Blocks
0
Kills
14
Aces
1
Blocks
1
Kills
9
Aces
0
Blocks
1
Players Mentioned
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/ VolleyballMSU Outlasts Hoosiers, 3-2
10/5/2018 11:16:00 PM | Volleyball
Spartans set 16 individual career bests in home victory
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Michigan State outlasted visiting Indiana on Friday night at Jenison Field House, taking a 3-2 victory over the Hoosiers (25-20, 23-25, 25-23, 19-25, 15-13). MSU picks up its 14th win of the season overall and wins its second straight in Big Ten play to improve to 2-3 in Conference action. The Hoosiers fall to 11-5 and 2-3 in the B1G.
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In MSU's first five-set match of the season, the Spartans set or tied a total of 16 individual career highs.  Alyssa Chronowski established a new career best for the second consecutive match, posting 25 kills and adding eight digs. . Freshman setter Elena Shklyar set a new career high with 63 assists, while Maddie Haggerty had her first MSU double-double with 14 kills and 14 digs, both her best in Green and White.
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Breana Edwards led the Hoosiers with 14 kills and four blocks, hitting .355. Deyshia Lofton had 12 kills, and Hayden Huybers led all players with seven blocks.Â
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IU out-hit the Spartans .219- .204, and had 19 team blocks to just 10 for the Green and White. MSU had 74 kills compared to 54 for Indiana, and had a season-best 82 digs, led by 28 for sophomore libero Jamye Cox, one shy of her career best. MSU had four players in double-digit digs: in addition to Cox and Haggerty, freshman Lauryn Gibbs had 12 digs and three assists (both her season best), and Sam McLean tied her career high for the second straight match with 13 digs.
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 MSU wraps up its four-game homestand when it plays No. 14 Purdue at home on Saturday evening at Jenison Field House.   The Boilermakers were swept by Michigan on Friday, 3-0.
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 "These are the tests you get in the Big Ten – teams push each other and have to fight some nights for every point. I have liked how our team has continued to fight with their backs against the wall. There were a lot of career bests tonight, and in our first five-set match of the season, I liked a lot of what I saw. However, we have a really tough Purdue team coming in here tomorrow and we are going to need to be just as tenacious, just as tough, and clean up some of the errors we made tonight."Â
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 TOP PERFORMERS
• Alyssa Chronowski had a career-best 25 kills and eight digs, hitting .314.  Â
• Elena Shklyar established a new career best with 63 assists, and added five digs and two blocks.
• Maddie Haggerty posted a double-double with 14 kills and 14 digs, both MSU bests.   Â
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  STATS AND STORYLINES
• Jamye Cox's 28 digs was a match-best and led MSUs four players with double-digits in that category.  Â
• Naya Gros posted 13 kills, hit .375, and added four blocks.Â
• MSU won its second straight after three straight losses to start Big Ten play.  Â
• MSU had double-digit blocks for the third straight game and for the eighth time overall this season. MSU has eight or more blocks in 16 of 18 matches this season.   Â
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 GAME REPLAY
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•  SET ONE: MSU opened up a four-point lead, (12-8), but saw the Hoosiers cut it down to a one-point game at 13-12. The Spartans kept themselves in the driver's seat with strong defense and aggressive offense – MSU hit .324 as a team, led by six kills from CHronowski, four from Haggerty and three from Gros. MSU maintained its five-point edge, getting to set point at 24-19 on a kill from Gros on the slide. A kill by Deyshia Lofton fended off the inevitable, and a termination from Molly Johnson gave MSU the 25-20 opening-set victory. Both teams had two blocks, with Johnson having a hand in each for MSU. The Hoosiers had four players with three kills each in the frame.  Â
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•  SET TWO:  Michigan  State mirrored its opening-set assertiveness and pulled ahead by four, then six points (18-12), hitting .391 to that point of the set compared to four kills against four errors for the Hoosiers. MSU led 19-12 before the Hoosiers staged a 6-0 run to pull back within a point, and after MSU's time out Gros stopped the run with a kill on the slide. IU came back with three straight points to take a 21-20 lead, but MSU and the visitors engaged in a back-and forth with entertaining rallies. IU took it by a 25-23 score to send the teams into the intermission with a 1-1 tie. Chronowski had five kills in the set, while Haggerty added four more to her total. MSU was out-blocked in the frame, which helped IU come back from its seven-point deficit. Kamryn Malloy had a pair of kills and three blocks for the Hoosiers.Â
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•  SET THREE:    MSU's lead didn't go above four in the third set, but the Spartans were purposeful and stayed aggressive. The Spartan block came alive, getting a solo stuff from Shklyar that made it 12-10, a stuff by Haggerty and Poljan that made it 18-14, and a block by Poljan and the setter one play later at 19-15. IU battled back again within a point at 20-19, but after the teams traded kills,  Chronowski and Swartz put up back-to-back terminations before an IU net violation made it 23-20. Adsell got the sideout for IU, but Swartz – who was a handful for the Hoosiers all set – came back with another termination. A block by the Hoosiers was followed by an MSU miscue, but the Spartans went back to Swartz who picked up her sixth kill of the set and MSU closed it out, 25-23.  IU out-blocked the Spartans by a 6-3 margin, and MSU held a slight edge in hitting percentage (.278-.265). Jamye Cox corralled eight digs in the frame, and Lauryn Gibbs had six – which alone would tie her career best.Â
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•  SET FOUR:    IU jumped out to an 8-6 lead, and maintained its two-point edge until MSU tied it up at 10-10 on a kill by Chronowski, which tied her career high with her 20th kill. With the two teams tied at 16, IU put together a 7-2 run to take a 23-18 lead. IU used four big blocks in that run to pull ahead, and a Spartan error got the Hoosiers to set point at 24-19. A kill by Bayli Lebo closed it out, and the teams headed to a fifth set. MSU had eight hitting errors in the set against 12 kills (.085), compared to just five errors against 12 kills for IU. The set had 11 tie scores and four lead changes, which led to MSU's first five-set match of the season. Chronowski's five kills and Haggerty's four pushed both over their personal career match highs in terminations, and Cox added seven digs in the set.Â
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•  SET FIVE:    The Spartans and Hoosiers battled point-for-point early, with the intensity certainly being felt on both sides of the net. Gros came alive with two early kills, and MSU got two more from Poljan that pushed the lead to 7-5. An IU error gave MSU an 8-5 edge at the crossover. With a 10-7 lead, the Spartans got back-to-back kills from Gros and Johnson to pull ahead 12-7 and force IU into a time out. IU got those two points back on a Edwards kill and a block by Huybers, but Chronowski halted the run with a sharp kill to make it 13-9.  MSU committed a pair of errors to allow the Hoosiers back within two at 13-11, but Gros's block got the Spartans to match point at 14-12. IU fought it off with a kill by Lexi Johnson, but then a service error for the Hoosiers gave the match to the Spartans. MSU hit .261 compared to .278 for Indiana, and each team had a pair of blocks. Gros had four of her 13 kills in the fifth set, with Chronowski adding three.
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Michigan State outlasted visiting Indiana on Friday night at Jenison Field House, taking a 3-2 victory over the Hoosiers (25-20, 23-25, 25-23, 19-25, 15-13). MSU picks up its 14th win of the season overall and wins its second straight in Big Ten play to improve to 2-3 in Conference action. The Hoosiers fall to 11-5 and 2-3 in the B1G.
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In MSU's first five-set match of the season, the Spartans set or tied a total of 16 individual career highs.  Alyssa Chronowski established a new career best for the second consecutive match, posting 25 kills and adding eight digs. . Freshman setter Elena Shklyar set a new career high with 63 assists, while Maddie Haggerty had her first MSU double-double with 14 kills and 14 digs, both her best in Green and White.
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Breana Edwards led the Hoosiers with 14 kills and four blocks, hitting .355. Deyshia Lofton had 12 kills, and Hayden Huybers led all players with seven blocks.Â
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IU out-hit the Spartans .219- .204, and had 19 team blocks to just 10 for the Green and White. MSU had 74 kills compared to 54 for Indiana, and had a season-best 82 digs, led by 28 for sophomore libero Jamye Cox, one shy of her career best. MSU had four players in double-digit digs: in addition to Cox and Haggerty, freshman Lauryn Gibbs had 12 digs and three assists (both her season best), and Sam McLean tied her career high for the second straight match with 13 digs.
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 MSU wraps up its four-game homestand when it plays No. 14 Purdue at home on Saturday evening at Jenison Field House.   The Boilermakers were swept by Michigan on Friday, 3-0.
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 "These are the tests you get in the Big Ten – teams push each other and have to fight some nights for every point. I have liked how our team has continued to fight with their backs against the wall. There were a lot of career bests tonight, and in our first five-set match of the season, I liked a lot of what I saw. However, we have a really tough Purdue team coming in here tomorrow and we are going to need to be just as tenacious, just as tough, and clean up some of the errors we made tonight."Â
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 - Head Coach Cathy GeorgeÂ
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 TOP PERFORMERS
• Alyssa Chronowski had a career-best 25 kills and eight digs, hitting .314.  Â
• Elena Shklyar established a new career best with 63 assists, and added five digs and two blocks.
• Maddie Haggerty posted a double-double with 14 kills and 14 digs, both MSU bests.   Â
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  STATS AND STORYLINES
• Jamye Cox's 28 digs was a match-best and led MSUs four players with double-digits in that category.  Â
• Naya Gros posted 13 kills, hit .375, and added four blocks.Â
• MSU won its second straight after three straight losses to start Big Ten play.  Â
• MSU had double-digit blocks for the third straight game and for the eighth time overall this season. MSU has eight or more blocks in 16 of 18 matches this season.   Â
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 GAME REPLAY
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•  SET ONE: MSU opened up a four-point lead, (12-8), but saw the Hoosiers cut it down to a one-point game at 13-12. The Spartans kept themselves in the driver's seat with strong defense and aggressive offense – MSU hit .324 as a team, led by six kills from CHronowski, four from Haggerty and three from Gros. MSU maintained its five-point edge, getting to set point at 24-19 on a kill from Gros on the slide. A kill by Deyshia Lofton fended off the inevitable, and a termination from Molly Johnson gave MSU the 25-20 opening-set victory. Both teams had two blocks, with Johnson having a hand in each for MSU. The Hoosiers had four players with three kills each in the frame.  Â
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•  SET TWO:  Michigan  State mirrored its opening-set assertiveness and pulled ahead by four, then six points (18-12), hitting .391 to that point of the set compared to four kills against four errors for the Hoosiers. MSU led 19-12 before the Hoosiers staged a 6-0 run to pull back within a point, and after MSU's time out Gros stopped the run with a kill on the slide. IU came back with three straight points to take a 21-20 lead, but MSU and the visitors engaged in a back-and forth with entertaining rallies. IU took it by a 25-23 score to send the teams into the intermission with a 1-1 tie. Chronowski had five kills in the set, while Haggerty added four more to her total. MSU was out-blocked in the frame, which helped IU come back from its seven-point deficit. Kamryn Malloy had a pair of kills and three blocks for the Hoosiers.Â
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•  SET THREE:    MSU's lead didn't go above four in the third set, but the Spartans were purposeful and stayed aggressive. The Spartan block came alive, getting a solo stuff from Shklyar that made it 12-10, a stuff by Haggerty and Poljan that made it 18-14, and a block by Poljan and the setter one play later at 19-15. IU battled back again within a point at 20-19, but after the teams traded kills,  Chronowski and Swartz put up back-to-back terminations before an IU net violation made it 23-20. Adsell got the sideout for IU, but Swartz – who was a handful for the Hoosiers all set – came back with another termination. A block by the Hoosiers was followed by an MSU miscue, but the Spartans went back to Swartz who picked up her sixth kill of the set and MSU closed it out, 25-23.  IU out-blocked the Spartans by a 6-3 margin, and MSU held a slight edge in hitting percentage (.278-.265). Jamye Cox corralled eight digs in the frame, and Lauryn Gibbs had six – which alone would tie her career best.Â
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•  SET FOUR:    IU jumped out to an 8-6 lead, and maintained its two-point edge until MSU tied it up at 10-10 on a kill by Chronowski, which tied her career high with her 20th kill. With the two teams tied at 16, IU put together a 7-2 run to take a 23-18 lead. IU used four big blocks in that run to pull ahead, and a Spartan error got the Hoosiers to set point at 24-19. A kill by Bayli Lebo closed it out, and the teams headed to a fifth set. MSU had eight hitting errors in the set against 12 kills (.085), compared to just five errors against 12 kills for IU. The set had 11 tie scores and four lead changes, which led to MSU's first five-set match of the season. Chronowski's five kills and Haggerty's four pushed both over their personal career match highs in terminations, and Cox added seven digs in the set.Â
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•  SET FIVE:    The Spartans and Hoosiers battled point-for-point early, with the intensity certainly being felt on both sides of the net. Gros came alive with two early kills, and MSU got two more from Poljan that pushed the lead to 7-5. An IU error gave MSU an 8-5 edge at the crossover. With a 10-7 lead, the Spartans got back-to-back kills from Gros and Johnson to pull ahead 12-7 and force IU into a time out. IU got those two points back on a Edwards kill and a block by Huybers, but Chronowski halted the run with a sharp kill to make it 13-9.  MSU committed a pair of errors to allow the Hoosiers back within two at 13-11, but Gros's block got the Spartans to match point at 14-12. IU fought it off with a kill by Lexi Johnson, but then a service error for the Hoosiers gave the match to the Spartans. MSU hit .261 compared to .278 for Indiana, and each team had a pair of blocks. Gros had four of her 13 kills in the fifth set, with Chronowski adding three.
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