Yep. We looked completely out of it the first set, then woke up and dominated the last three. Shondell said setter Meghan Renner played “probably her best match of the year” and Kyle picked Chinn as the player of the game.
The serve/recieve that had been pretty awful against Northwestern and in the first set today suddenly returned to excellence in the last 3 sets, despite IU having a reputation of being good in that area. We had 17 blocks for the match compared to IU’S 4. And after committing 8 errors in the first set, we only had 4 TOTAL in the last three sets hitting 0.374 for the match.
Mady Saris, IU’S best player, was held to only 7 kills for the match.
Kyle said on the radio broadcast that Dave had a stern talk with Raven Colvin after the Northwestern game (which surprised me) but as you said, she sure did well today.
Of note is that Balensiefer and Koch only played in one set. Obviously Shondell is saying that you need to produce to be placed in the rotations.
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