Wednesday, November 13
East Lansing, Mich.
7 pm
Michigan State University
14-11, 5-10BIG
0
vs
3
Nebraska
21-3, 13-2B1G
1
2
3
F
Nebraska
25
25
25
3
Michigan State
20
18
23
0
Team Stats
NEB
MSU
Kills
46
37
Errors
14
15
Attempts
108
112
Hitting %
.296
.196
Points
56.0
43.0
Assists
44
34
Aces
3
3
Blocks
7.0
3.0
Game Leaders
Kills
10
Aces
0
Blocks
1
Kills
8
Aces
0
Blocks
1
Kills
4
Aces
0
Blocks
0
Players Mentioned
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Huskers Edge Spartans
11/13/2019 9:56:00 PM | Volleyball
East Lansing, Mich. -- Michigan State battled through a hard-fought match with No. 6 Nebraska on Wednesday, but could never quite get over the hump in any of the three close sets and fell by a 3-0 margin to the Huskers (25-20, 25-18, 25-23). The match featured 22 tie scores and seven lead changes,
Michigan State hit .196 in the match, with just eight unforced hitting errors (37-15-112), its highest hitting percentage since an Oct. 18 win over Rutgers. The Huskers were big at the net, out-blocking MSU by a 7-3 margin and hitting .296.
Lauren Swartz had 10 kills, hit .296, and added two assist for MSU, while the freshmen made another impression – Biamba Kabengele had eight kills, hit .300, and added two digs and a block; Emma Monks had four kills and two blocks for the Spartans, who fell to 14-11, 5-10 Big Ten.
The Huskers (21-3, 13-2 B1G) were led by 16 kills from freshman Madi Kubik, followed by Lexi Sun with nine kills, nine digs, and four blocks. Callie Schwarzenbach had six of Nebraska's seven blocks, and added five kills, while Lauren Stivrins had seven kills and hit .667.
Michigan State completes the week of action at No. 7 Wisconsin on Saturday.
PLAYER HIGHS
STATS & STORYLINES
SET SYNOPSIS
Michigan State hit .196 in the match, with just eight unforced hitting errors (37-15-112), its highest hitting percentage since an Oct. 18 win over Rutgers. The Huskers were big at the net, out-blocking MSU by a 7-3 margin and hitting .296.
Lauren Swartz had 10 kills, hit .296, and added two assist for MSU, while the freshmen made another impression – Biamba Kabengele had eight kills, hit .300, and added two digs and a block; Emma Monks had four kills and two blocks for the Spartans, who fell to 14-11, 5-10 Big Ten.
The Huskers (21-3, 13-2 B1G) were led by 16 kills from freshman Madi Kubik, followed by Lexi Sun with nine kills, nine digs, and four blocks. Callie Schwarzenbach had six of Nebraska's seven blocks, and added five kills, while Lauren Stivrins had seven kills and hit .667.
Michigan State completes the week of action at No. 7 Wisconsin on Saturday.
PLAYER HIGHS
- Lauren Swartz led Michigan State 10 kills and hit .296, adding twow assists and a block.
- Biamba Kabengele had eight kills, hit .300, and added two digs and a block.
- Jamye Cox finished with 17 digs, two assists, and an ace.
STATS & STORYLINES
- Swartz had double-digit kills for the second time this season and posted them in consecutive games.
- Both Meredith Norris and Elena Shklyar had six digs, Shklyar adding 15 assists and Norris four kills.
- Freshman Emma Monks led the Spartans with a pair of blocks, and also added four kills on 10 swings without an error.
SET SYNOPSIS
- SET ONE: MSU and its guests alternated points to get to 8-8, with a kill by Swartz followed by a block from Gros serving as the first consecutive points for either team, giving MSU a 9-8 lead. MSU took a 13-10 lead with a 4-0 run capped by a Jamye Cox ace, and a block by Monks and Kabengele, Nebraska got the first point out of its time out, but MSU scored the next two on a Swartz kill and a Stivrins error to push the lead out to 15-11. The Huskers were struggling with a .147 hitting percentage at the midpoint of the match (thanks in part to a pair of MSU blocks), and MSU was cruising along with a .375 (10-1-24) as it maintained a three-point lead at 18-15. Nebraska responded with three kills around an MSU error to go up 19-18, and the Spartans called time out. Nebraska got three straight out of the break to push their run to six straight and push their lead out to 22-18, and Gros put the brakes on a bit with a cross-court kill that brought MSU back within three. The visitors got to set point, which Kabengele temporarily put off with a kill of the overpass, but Stivrins closed it out for a five-point win. The teams both hit just over .200, with Nebraska burying 15 kills and MSU 12. Madi Kubik led Nebraska with six kills, while Swartz had four and a block for the Spartans. Nicklin Hames had seven assists, eight digs, and a pair of kills for the Huskers.
- SET TWO: The teams traded points again early in the second set, with the Huskers taking a 7-4 lead when Stivrins went off the block after a pair of kills by Kubik. MSU got back within a point on back-to-back errors from the Huskers, but they came back with a kill by Sun and a block by Schwarzenbach to re-establish the three-point edge. The Huskers put up three consecutive blocks to take their lead from three to six, and MSU called time out. Nebraska was hitting .381 in the frame with a 16-10 lead (10-2-21), with the Husker block causing havoc on MSU's hitting percentage (8-6-31, .065). Nebraska won the race to 20 at 20-12 on another block by Schwarzenbach (her fifth), and the Nebraska hitters were finding their way tooling the Spartan block for kills at the pins. MSU kept fighting, but couldn't make headway to trim down the deficit, and trailed 23-17 after a Monks kill out of the middle, and again wr-18 after a Johnson termination, but the Huskers closed it out 25-18 for a 2-0 match lead. Kabengele put down four kills without an error in the frame, while Cox added six digs. Both Kubik and Sun had four kills each for the visitors, while Schwarzenbach had four blocks.
- SET THREE: MSU twice found itself down by three in the early part of the third, but the Spartans battled back with a 3-0 run capped by a Midgette ace that tied things up at 11's. An ace by Gibbs and a tool off the block by Norris gave MSU its first lead at 14-13, and Monks followed when she put down a quick set in the middle to take a 15-13 edge. The Huskers called time out, but MSU came out of the break with a big block from Johnson and Monks to go up 16-13, and then Nebraska countered with five of the next six points to go up 20-18, triggering an MSU time out. The Spartans and their guests then began to trade points to get to 22-20 Nebraska, but then MSU scored three of the next four – a Shklar dump on two, a Monks kill, and a Nebraska error, to tie things up at 23-all. The Spartans, however, could not keep things going, committing back-to-back errors to close out the set for Nebraska, 25-23. MSU managed to hit a match-best .323 in the set (14-4-31) in the set, but the Huskers were equally as successful, (15-5-29, .345) to earn the sweep.
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