Volleyball Falls At #11 Oregon, 3-1

Sunday, October 18

Eugene, Ore.

4:00 PM

Rutgers

10-10,1-7Big Ten

Oregon

16-2,7-1Big Ten

Team	1	2	3	4	Final F
Rutgers	13	32	18	12	1
Oregon	25	30	25	25	3

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Rutgers volleyball during pregame at Matthew Knight Arena vs. #11 Oregon

Oct 18 | Women's Volleyball

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EUGENE, Ore. – Another afternoon of Big Ten volleyball action with Rutgers meant another marathon set.

The Scarlet Knights took a frame from an opponent ranked or receiving votes in the AVCA Top 25 Poll for the fifth straight match, but host #11 Oregon took the 3-1 win.

The Ducks opened with a 25-13 first-set win, but the Scarlet Knights punched back with a marathon set two featuring seven set points between the two squads before RU evened the match behind a 32-30 win. Oregon, however, claimed set three, 25-18, and closed out the match with a 25-12 fourth-set victory to win its seventh straight.

STANDOUT STATS

Malia Romes swung away for a team-leading 12 kills as the only Scarlet Knight in double figures. Both Imani Howell and Aspen Maxwell added eight.
RU delivered six aces, the most since the Iowa match back on Sept. 26. Karis Willow led with three points from the line while Lily Bolen moved four aces closer to the 100 career mark.
Bolen also put up 20 assists to go along with seven digs. Brooke Baldwin added another six helpers and an ace.
Kenzie Dyrstad finished the afternoon with a match-high 14 digs.

KEY MOMENTS

SET 1 (13-25) | Oregon opened the match on a 6-1 run and never trailed. The Ducks hit .464 with 16 kills while RU was limited to seven, while also making seven errors. Aspen Maxwell fired off three kills in the frame.

SET 2 (32-30) | It was another Big Ten marathon as the squads went for set point seven times as Kaila Kalama-Bajet put away the frame on her second career kill just after punching in her first career kill just a few points earlier to keep the Scarlet Knights in the hunt. Rutgers held a 19-14 edge when Oregon went on a 9-4 burst for its first chance to take the set. The Ducks misfired on a serve and Imani Howell fired back to knot the score at 25-25. RU went to the middle again, this time from Zharia Harris-Waddy, for RU's first chance at the frame and third overall. The tables turned as a kill from Oregon's Sjakkie Donkers and miscue by the Scarlet Knight attack for the Ducks' third opportunity and fourth overall at ending the frame. A Harris-Waddy kill kept the set moving along and Kalama-Bajet pushed across her first career kill as set point when back to the Scarlet Knights for the second set point opening and fifth overall. The game kept going, however, as Dalia Vrlan came up with the kill for the Ducks and Donkers put the hosts at the line for their fourth set point and sixth overall. RU went back-to-back-to-back on kills to finish up the set. A Skylar George swing halted Oregon's chance; Imani Howell fired back for the frame's seventh set point, and Kalama-Bajet's second kill of the day secured the victory.

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SET 3 (18-25) | The third set was neck and neck early with seven ties. Malia Romes found the floor, and a Duck attack error had RU up 11-10; later, a swing from Maxwell and an ace from Karis Willow saw the set even at 14-14. Oregon, however, took a 7-2 run to take the lead for good to follow. A Willow attack saw the Scalet Knights down by three, trailing 21-18, before three RU miscues gave the Ducks the set. Romes added a trio of kills to her stat line.

SET 4 (12-25) | Oregon finished out the afternoon hitting .500 with only one error as they never trailed. Back-to-back kills from the hands Harris-Waddy knotted the score at 7-7 and a swing from Romes saw the set even at 8-8, but the Ducks responded with 11 unanswered en route to the win.

UP NEXT

The Scarlet Knights return home to Jersey Mike's Arena to host #22 Michigan State on Friday, Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. and #23 Illinois on Saturday, Oct. 24 at 7 p.m. Click here to purchase tickets.

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