Beavers to Welcome Arizona Schools for Senior Weekend

Friday, November 15

Corvallis, OR

7:00 PM

Oregon State

Arizona State

Photo by: Karl Maasdam/Oregon State Athletics

November 12, 2019 | Women's Volleyball

OSU vs Arizona State & Arizona notes

By: Athletic Communications

ON TAP
• Oregon State remains at home this week to host Arizona State and Arizona at Gill Coliseum.
• OSU (9-16, 3-11 Pac-12) welcomes Arizona State (13-12, 5-9) on Friday at 7 p.m. for Senior Night.
• Oregon State returns to action on Sunday to host Arizona (12-14, 2-12).
• The Beavers will complete the season with two weekends on the road, first at the L.A. schools next week, then a single match at Utah on Nov. 27, and in Eugene to face Oregon on Nov. 29.

PROMOTIONS
• Prior to Friday's match against Arizona State, OSU will recognize its six seniors in a Senior Night celebration.
• Friday home volleyball matches are Faculty/Staff Friday games. Oregon State faculty and staff can purchase tickets for $5 with a valid OSU ID.
• On Sunday, fans who present a ticket stub from Saturday's OSU football game against Arizona State are eligible to receive a free general admission ticket to the match against Arizona.
• 2019 volleyball summer camp participants also receive free admission to every 2019 volleyball match if they show up wearing their official camper t-shirt.

LIVE STREAM/LIVE STATS
• Both of this week's matches be available for live streaming online as well as live stats.
• Fans can find both the stream and live stats by visiting the volleyball schedule page on osubeavers.com.

SOCIAL MEDIA
• Fans are encouraged to follow the Oregon State volleyball program via social media. There are several platforms to follow the team including:
• Twitter: @BeaverVBall
• Instagram: @BeaverVBall
• Facebook: /BeaverVBall

SENIOR NIGHT
• Friday is Senior Night at Gill Coliseum. Four Oregon State seniors - Makenna Browne, Serena Bruin, Kory Cheshire, Shekinah Clarke, Montanna Gubrud and Amy Underdown - will be honored prior to pre-game introductions.
• Browne, a defensive specialist, will graduate from OSU's Honors College in June with a degree in biochemistry and molecular biology with a minor in chemistry.
• Bruin, a middle blocker, will graduate in June with a degree in psychology.
• Cheshire, also a middle blocker, graduated with a double-degree in sociology and psycholgy with an option in crime and justice and a minor in leadership last December. She is scheduled to complete her Master's in Interdisciplinary Studies in the spring.
• Clarke, an outside hitter, is on track to graduate in the spring with a degree in human development and family sciences.
• Gubrud, a setter, is majoring in marketing and will graduate in June.
• Underdown, another outside hitter, is scheduled to graduate in December with a degree in sociology with an option in crime and justice.

AGAINST THE SUN DEVILS
• Oregon State trails the all-time series with Arizona State 22-45. ASU beat the Beavers earlier in the season in Tempe, but OSU has won three of the last five meetings

AGAINST THE WILDCATS
• Arizona holds the advantage in the all-time series at 48-18. However, the Beavers defeated the Wildcats in five sets in Tucson in October.

LAST WEEK
• Oregon State won the opening set against No. 24 Washington State on Thursday, before ultimately falling in four sets. Haylie Bennett converted 14 kills and Chloe Brown added 10 kills and 10 digs and Amy Underdown scored on a pair of aces. Kory Cheshire registered five blocks and Grace Massey corraled 17 digs for the Beavers.
• OSU took a set from No. 14 Washington on Sunday but fell in four. Haylie Bennett was on fire again notching 19 kills and Amy Underdown added 10. Grace Massey collected 15 digs and Lindsey Schell turned away the Huskies at the net three times.

TESTING THE DEPTH
• Oregon State, for the second season in a row, has been battered by injuries. A squad that head coach Mark Barnard suggested was the deepest he's had, was tested early in the season. Four outside hitters went down within a matter of days - Chloe Brown (injury) and Amy Underdown were injured during Week 2 at the Hoosier Invite and were unable to finish the tourney. While Maddie Goings (injury) and Cecilee Max-Brown (illness) played through ailments but were sidelined the following week.
• With that foursome sidelined, the Beavers played at the Redhawk Invitational with Haylie Bennett, the starting opposite in 2017 and '18, Shekinah Clarke, who had been rehabbing last year's season-ending knee injury, and Kory Cheshire, who moved from starting middle blocker to opposite and then to the left side.
• Goings was able to return to the lineup at the UNC/CSU Classic after missing one week, while Brown and Underdown returned for the opening week of Pac-12 play ... Max-Brown finally returned from illness last weekend after missing five weeks.
• While the hitters have returned to health, the Beavers lost senior DS Makenna Browne to a season-ending knee injury at the end of September during the victory over Oregon.
• In addition, starting setter Maddie Sheehan and freshman Amya Small are now injured and both have been unavailable the last four weekends.

BENNETT FIRING BULLETS
• Junior opposite Haylie Bennett is back. Bennett suffered through an injury-marred season in 2018 missing time with three separate injuries playing in only 20 matches.
• Bennett began the 2019 season coming off the bench, but when injuries struck the outside hitter position, she was called into full-time duty and has seized the opportunity refusing to relinquish her role.
• Bennett leads the Beavers with 247 kills and is second with a career-high 2.84 kills/set overall. In conference play, she enters the weekend with a team-high 154 kills and is second with 3.02 k/s.

NEWCOMER CONTRIBUTIONS
• The Beavers welcomed five newcomers to the fold in 2019 - sophomore transfer OH Chloe Brown and freshmen S Mary Kate Lopez, OH Cecilee Max-Brown, DS Taylor Quinn and MB Amya Small.
• Brown and Max-Brown made an immediate impact on the squad winning both of the starting outside hitter spots. The pair of newbies led the Beavers in the opening weekend at the Oregon Classic with both earning all-tournament team honors.
• Quinn has earned playing time as a defensive and serving specialist.
• Lopez spent the early portion of the season trapped behind a pair of more experienced setters. However, with an injury taking Maddie Sheehan out of the equation, Lopez received her first extensive playing time setting a personal mark with 16 assists against UCLA.
• Small has battled against three middles with starting experience ahead of her and is likely to redshirt in 2019.

DIGGING THROUGH THE RECORD BOOKS
• Early in the preseason, junior libero Grace Massey moved into OSU's Top 10 in history. Two weeks ago, she moved in the Top 5 in OSU history and currently has with 1,392. She needs 91 more digs to tie Tricia Becker (1987-90) for fourth with 1,483.
• Massey, who entered the season with 993 digs, became the 16th player in OSU history to amass 1,000 career digs during the first match of the season, against UC Irvine at the Oregon Classic.
• She set OSU's sophomore record in 2018 with 560 digs, which also ranked as the third most prolific season in OSU history.
• Massey currently has 399 digs in 2019, which is the 5th-most by a junior in OSU history.
• Junior outside hitter Maddie Goings has also moved into the Beavers' top 30 with 805 career digs, which is good for 23rd in school history.

CHESHIRE PUTS THE ROOF ON
• Senior middle blocker Kory Cheshire is moving up the Beavers' career blocks lists this fall.
• Cheshire currently has 299 total blocks in her career ranking 13th in OSU history. She needs 10 blocks to tie Bree Knitter (2006-09) for 12th on the Beavers' all-time list.
• In addition, Cheshire has 238 block assists to rank 13th. She needs 17 more to tie former teammate Maddy Gravley (2015-18).
• And she is up to 59 career solo blocks to rank 16th in school history. She needs three solos to tie Merri Walters (1984-86) and Christy Stoeckel (1989-92) for 16th.

GOINGS GOING GONE
• Junior Maddie Goings, who moved to the right side to begin the season but has played all over the court due to injuries, has tallied 217 kills in 2019 (2.69 k/s), ranking second the team in kills and third in kills per set.
• Goings registered 56 kills at the Hoosier Invite for a 4.67 k/s clip en route to earning all-tournament honors.
• Goings now has 932 kills in her career which ranks 20th in OSU history. She needs five to tie Michele Solomon (1999-2002) for 19th place.

MAXING OUT
• Freshman Cecilee Max-Brown began the season by earning a starting spot at outside hitter. However, after earning Oregon Classic all-tournament honors and recording her first college double-double at the Hoosier Invite, she came down with an illness that sidelined her for the next five weeks.
• Max-Brown returned to action at home against USC (10/18) and made her first conference start two days later against UCLA posting 16 kills.
• Since returning to the court, Max-Brown has accounted for 58 kills across 20 sets for a team-leading 2.90 kills/set.

SETTING THE OFFENSE
• Sophomore setter Maddie Sheehan became the 13th player in school history to register 1,000 career assists.
• Sheehan has moved into 10th place all-time at OSU and currently has 1,467 career assists. Most recently, Sheehan moved past McKenna Hollingsworth and Christine Wilson and needs 298 to tie Kristy Wing (1988-91) for ninth in OSU history.
• Senior setter Montanna Gubrud, who transferred into the program in 2018, set an OSU career-high with 41 assists at California.
• Gubrud now has 421 assists in 2019 which ranks as the 10th-most by a senior in OSU history.

TH-UNDERDOWN REACHES IMPRESSIVE MARK
• Senior outside hitter Amy Underdown registered the 1,000th kill of her collegiate career against UCLA.
• Underdown tallied 537 kills during her first two seasons at Northeastern before transferring to Oregon State.
• She led the Beavers, in her first season at OSU, with 406 kills. Her 406 kills are the eighth-most by a junior in OSU history.
• Underdown's role with the Beavers in 2019 has evolved as the offense has changed throughout the season due to injuries. She had a season-best 13 kills against UCLA (10/20) including No. 1,000.

CLARKE IN THE CLUTCH
• Redshirt senior Shekinah Clarke was called upon for the first time in 2019 at the Redhawk Invitational when the Beavers were decimated by injuries. Clarke came through with a team-leading, and career-high, 15 kills in her first start against New Mexico to lead the squad to a come from behind five-set win.
• Clarke went on to tally another 19 kills in the next two matches helping the Beavers to a 3-0 record over the weekend (9/13-14).
• Was named to the Redhawk Invitational All-Tournament Team.
• Recently, Clarke has been forced into a defensive specialist-type role due to injury. She posted a career-best 13 digs in the win over Colorado (9/27).
• In an unrelated note, Clarke's brother, Onesimus, made his first career start at left guard for the Beavers' football team during the same weekend as the Redhawk Invitational -- a win over Cal Poly that Saturday (9/14).

ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAMS
• Oregon Classic - New starting outside hitters Chloe Brown and Cecilee Max-Brown were named ot the Oregon Classic All-Tournament Team in their OSU debuts. Brown led the Beavers with 12 and 13 kills respectively and registered the first double-double of her career.
• Hoosier Invite - Maddie Goings set a career-high with 26 kills against Oklahoma and totaled 56 in the Beavers' trip to Indiana. Goings was named to the all-tournament team.
• Redhawk Invitational - Kory Cheshire garnered MVP honors and Shekinah Clarke earned an all-tournament nod as the Beavers swept the competition. Cheshire set a career-high with 17 kills against Gonzaga and 23 digs against New Mexico, while Clarke registered a career-high 15 kills against the Lobos.