Beavers Knock Off Virginia to Open the Season

Friday, August 24

Ames, IA

2:00 PM

Oregon State

1-0

Virginia

0-2

Virginia

Oregon State

Photo by: Dave Nishitani/Oregon State Athletics

August 24, 2018 | Women's Volleyball

Box Score

By: Athletic Communications

AMES, Iowa – It took five sets, and extra time in the fifth, but the Oregon State volleyball team earned a season-opening win over Virginia (0-2) at the Iowa State Challenge Friday afternoon.

The Beavers won by scores of 19-25, 25-14, 16-25, 25-22 and 17-15 to earn their third straight season-opener under third-year head coach Mark Barnard.

Oregon State had to come from behind in the fourth stanza to force a fifth, and deciding, set. Trailing 11-7 with momentum against them, the Beavers capitalized on a pair of attack errors by the Cavaliers to begin to get back into the match. A kill by Maddie Goings, who led the Beavers with 17, tied it up at 12 forcing Virginia into a timeout. It continued to be a back-and-forth affair until junior transfer Amy Underdown came alive with kills on three out of four to give the Beavers their first lead of the set at 21-19. A pair of Underdown blocks to go with a pair of Goings kill gave the Orange and Black the set and evened the match at two sets apiece.

OSU took the momentum into the fifth set and quickly took a 3-0 lead. But Virginia wasn't through, regained its footing and rolled off six straight points to reclaim a 9-5 lead. A quick kill by Serena Bruin, who had just entered the match for the first time, righted the ship for the Beavers, who nabbed seven of the next eight points to move ahead 12-10. The teams, again, went back-and-forth with ties at 12, 13, 14 and 15, before Goings' 17th kill of the match gave the Beavers match point for the second time. Oregon State finished it off when UVA's Jelena Novakovic's attack went wide and OSU secured the set 17-15.

The Beavers, who dropped the opening set 25-19, rebounded in the second with a strong performance. OSU recorded 18 kills with only a single attack error to hit an impressive 65.4 percent.

Game Notes: Friday's match marked the first ever meeting between Oregon State and Virginia … Three Beavers made their first starts at OSU including transfer setter Allison Hughes, transfer outside hitter Amy Underdown and redshirt freshman middle blocker Lindsey Schell … Freshman setter Maddie Sheehan also made her OSU debut on Friday … Maddie Goings led three Beavers in double figures with 17 kills. Schell added 16 … Underdown registered her first career double-double at OSU with 14 kills and 12 digs … Oregon State registered 15 blocks, including seven by Schell.

Next Up: OSU plays twice on Saturday, first taking on Ole Miss at 8 a.m. PDT, before facing No. 21 Iowa State at 4:30 p.m. PDT.

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