The No. 15 Ohio State women’s volleyball team defeated No. 21 Purdue on Friday night 3-0. in West Lafayette.  Senior Mari Hole had 17 kills and 10 digs en route to her sixteenth double-double of the season.

In the first set, Purdue led 11-4 before the Buckeyes cut the lead to 11-9 after a 5 point run.  The set was tied at 14-14 before a few Purdue miscues allowed Ohio State to take a 17-15 lead. A 4 point run gave the Buckeyes a 21-17 lead, and an Emily Danks block would give them the set 25-19.

An early Boilermaker run in the second set was quelled by a few errors on their part that led to Ohio State taking a 7-6 lead.  Later in the set, a Hole kill gave the Buckeyes a 24-19 lead, but the Boilermakers fought back to tie … [Read More]

Holding onto a one point lead, the redshirt freshman saw an onslaught from who many considered the best wrestler in the country.

After escaping from bottom just 20 seconds into the third period, Oliver went on the offense, looking for numerous openings by dropping his knee to the mat and putting together several take down attempts with forward motion and hand control.

Down 4-3, everyone in the building had a feeling the defending champion would seize any small mistake made by the opposing redshirt freshman. Oliver had pinned all of his opponents on the way to the semi-finals, and cruised his way to finals mat with an 8-2 victory over Illinois’ B.J. Futrell.

For the first time though in two years, … [Read More]