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    Volleyball Splits Two Matches Against Northern Illinois

    in Buffalo Bulls Other Sports

    Posted · Edited by dj_paige

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    Junior right side Stacia Gollogly
    Photo Credit: Mark Debortoli

    On Friday night, the UB Women's Volleyball team struggled greatly against Northern Illinois, and was swept by the Huskies 25–20, 25–21 and 25–18. This was the Bulls' fourth loss in the last five matches, all losses via a sweep. The Huskies picked up their 8th straight win.

    Buffalo could only manage a 0.054 hitting percentage against Northern Illinois. Only one player, senior middle blocker Courtney Okwara, hit above 0.200. Buffalo's other middle blocker, senior Abby Leigh, leading the team in scoring so far this year, only managed 2 kills and only had 12 attack attempts. The problem was that the Bulls passing was poor, and the offense was not in system very often. Fifth year outside hitter Cali Assaley led the team with 9 kills and sophomore outside hitter Katrin Trebichavská had 8 kills. Sophomore setter Mandy Leigh had 23 assists. Okwara and both Leighs had 4 blocks. Mandy Leigh led the team with 16 digs.

    After that match, where the Bulls led on only one play the entire match, Buffalo fans could be excused if they were totally surprised by what happened next.

    In the second match, on Saturday, Buffalo responded with some of their best passing of the season, and pulled of a sweep of their own (25–23, 25–22 and 25–21), allowing the Huskies to lead for just three plays during the match. In each set, Buffalo withstood rallies by the Huskies which brought them close to the Bulls late in the set, but Buffalo never surrendered the lead. It was a very poised team response to the Huskies rallies. In the final set, after Buffalo led by 3 at 17–14, the Huskies came back to close within one point at 22–21, but then the Bulls finished the match scoring the last three points, the final point coming on an ace by sophomore libero Maria Futey.

    The strong passing enabled Mandy Leigh to get her middle blockers and right-side attacker much more involved in the offense. Abby Leigh had 9 kills and just one error on 19 swings, Okwara had 11 kills and just one error on 19 swings and junior right side Stacia Gollogly had 11 kills and just 2 errors. The Bulls hit 0.284 as a team. Trebichavská had 14 kills to lead the team, nine coming in the first set. Mandy Leigh had 18 assists in the first set (a huge number for one set, especially compared to just 23 for the entire previous match), and 44 assists for the match (again, that's a big number for three sets).

    Futey led the team with 17 digs, while Mandy Leigh had 15 and Assaley had 12. Gollogly and the two middle blockers each had two blocks.

    The Bulls are now 2-3 in the MAC and 10–7 overall. They play next weekend at Toledo on Friday and Ball State on Saturday.

    Notes:

    • Trebichavská entered the match leading the MAC in aces and in aces per set, but had a huge number of service errors. In the first match, after two service errors by Trebichavská in the first set, she was replaced in the serving rotation by junior defensive specialist Emilie Davis, who at the time was 8th in the MAC in aces per set. Davis scored an ace on her first serve and did not commit a service error the rest of the way. In the second match, Trebichavská served the entire match, had 1 ace and 1 error.
    • Futey has been putting up some very good numbers since taking over the libero position. She has 51 digs in 12 sets, that's well over 4 digs per set, which would make her 6th in the MAC if you just count games at libero (but she has played other positions, which brings her average down).

    Volleyball Sweeps Akron

    in Buffalo Bulls Other Sports

    Posted · Edited by dj_paige

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    Photo credit: Mark DeBortoli

    The UB Volleyball team put together an all-around effort to pick up their first MAC win, a 3–0 victory over Akron. Buffalo snaps a 4 match and 11 set losing streak.

    The Bulls were led by junior right-side Stacia Gollogly, who got her first start this year at that position and picked up 15.5 points on 11 kills, a team high 2 aces and 5 blocks. She did not commit an attacking error and hit 0.611.

    Gollogly, however, had a lot of help, as senior middle blocker Abby Leigh had 10 kills, just 1 error and a team high 8 blocks. Fifth year outside hitter Cali Assaley had her best night as a Bull, leading the team with 12 kills, just one error, and hit 0.476.

    Buffalo won the first set after Akron played even most of the way. At 17–17, Buffalo went on a 4–0 run, three of those points coming on kills from Gollogly. The Bulls would win 25–22. In the second set, the score was 16–15 in favor of Buffalo, and then the Bulls scored the next eight points, four of those coming on kills from Gollogly. That 8–0 run was served by sophomore libero Maria Futey, who has put together long serving runs many times this season. The third set was never close, and Buffalo won easily 25-17.

    For the match, Buffalo hit a scorching 0.385, as the team's passing was markedly better than a weekend ago at Western Michigan. Buffalo held Akron to just 0.152 hitting. Buffalo had 11 blocks to just 4 from Akron.

    Sophomore setter Mandy Leigh had 34 assists. Futey led the team with 11 digs.

    Notes:

    • Sophomore outside hitter Katrin Trebichavská was the only UB player who struggled. She had just 4 kills and hit 0.000, and also 3 service errors. Although Trebichavská leads the MAC in aces, she did not pick up an ace, and in the second set, Buffalo coach Scott Smith took her out of the serving rotation and replaced her with senior defensive specialist Jenna Sonnenberg, who did not commit an service error the rest of the way.
    • Sorry, but I don't seem to have a good picture of Stacia Gollogly.
    • Buffalo returns to Alumni Arena this weekend, facing Northern Illinois in two matches — Friday, September 30 at 6pm (ESPN+) and Saturday, October 1 at 1pm (YouTube).
    • Akron libero Lauren Latka is so popular in the Akron area that they named a potato pancake after her.
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    22-23 tickets

    in Buffalo Bulls Basketball

    Posted · Edited by dj_paige

    I called the ticket office. They say the ticket renewals will be sent out by e-mail in the next 2 weeks. No paper mail (and probably no paper tickets, so much less time needed to get everyone's tickets to them).

    Volleyball — results and upcoming tournament

    in Buffalo Bulls Other Sports

    Posted

    The 7-2 Bulls play at Florida Gulf Coast University Friday Sept 16 and Saturday Sept 17. Other teams in the tournament are St. Francis (NY) and Florida Atlantic. The host team went to the 2nd round of the NCAA Tournament last year, and so while I'm hoping for a UB upset, realistically, winning even 1 set would be a good showing for the Bulls. Only the game against FGCU is streamed (on Facebook Live) on Friday at 7pm. Read my story about last weekend's results in which Buffalo swept the WNY Invite Tournament: https://www.ubbullrun.com/volleyball/2022/9/10/23345704/abby-leigh-leads-bulls-to-tournament-title

    Effort and Energy

    in Buffalo Bulls Basketball

    Posted

    On 1/29/2022 at 9:54 AM, Sportsfan said:

    The Ohio post game quote about " incredibility disappointed in the effort" was striking.  Facing the top rated team in the MAC, at home, and after a loss, and  not have effort.

    ... and the team that beat UB in the MAC championship game in March.

    What's going on with Mballa these days? Is he still not 100% after he was out with COVID?

    NIU/UB women’s game

    in Buffalo Bulls Basketball

    Posted

    Agreeing with all of your concerns. Adding, I think Fair is injured but still playing with the injury, or is fatigued. And I think Hemphill is fatigued, she too only 8 shots all game. And I think Woolley is also showing signs of fatigue. And maybe Camp too, she only had 1 assist yesterday and took only 1 shot. I have no particular advice for FLJ, she is in a difficult position with only 8 healthy players and two of them aren't really producing (Jordan, Keita) and the rest are playing huge number of minutes.

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