{"id":206910,"date":"2025-09-07T06:03:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T06:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/206910\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T06:03:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T06:03:20","slug":"ohio-volleyball-drops-five-set-battle-to-jacksonville-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/206910\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Volleyball Drops Five Set Battle to Jacksonville State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ohio_state_logo.png\" alt=\"Ohio State\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Match:<\/p>\n<p>vs. Ohio State<\/p>\n<p>9\/12\/2025 | 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Sep. 12 (Fri) \/ 3 p.m.&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ohio_state_logo.png\" alt=\"Ohio State\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        vs.\u00a0Ohio State&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/ohiobobcats.com\/sports\/wvball\/opponent-history\/ohio-state\/13\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    <strong>CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. \u2013 <\/strong>The Ohio volleyball team (2-4, 0-0 MAC) fell to Jacksonville State (2-3, 0-0 CUSA) 3-2 (19-25, 25-23, 17-25, 25-23, 10-15) on Saturday, Sept. 7.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOhio finished with 39 kills, 11 aces, 16 blocks, 34 assists and 43 digs. Jacksonville State finished with 45 kills, nine aces, 41 assists and 62 digs.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFreshman <a href=\"https:\/\/ohiobobcats.com\/sports\/wvball\/roster\/bailey-blair\/5695\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5695\" target=\"_blank\">Bailey Blair<\/a> (Louisville, Ky.) led the team&#8217;s offense with 11 kills and 16.5 points. Freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/ohiobobcats.com\/sports\/wvball\/roster\/mady-long\/5692\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5692\" target=\"_blank\">Mady Long<\/a> (Vincent. Ohio) finished with 10 kills in addition to three aces, seven digs and 14 points.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nJunior <a href=\"https:\/\/ohiobobcats.com\/sports\/wvball\/roster\/kendall-hickey\/5514\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5514\" target=\"_blank\">Kendall Hickey<\/a> (Fishers, Ind.) tallied a team-high 13 digs. Blair led the team in blocking with one block solo and nine block assists. Junior <a href=\"https:\/\/ohiobobcats.com\/sports\/wvball\/roster\/emily-waddell\/5525\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5525\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Waddell<\/a> (Carmel, Ind.) added five block assists.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSenior <a href=\"https:\/\/ohiobobcats.com\/sports\/wvball\/roster\/kendall-white\/5526\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5526\" target=\"_blank\">Kendall White<\/a> (Gahanna, Ohio) and sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/ohiobobcats.com\/sports\/wvball\/roster\/bryn-janke\/5517\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5517\" target=\"_blank\">Bryn Janke<\/a> (Westfield, Wis.) combined for 30 assists.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nJacksonville State gained an early 1-0 lead after taking the first set, 25-19.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOhio answered back with a 25-23 win in the second set, tying the game at 1-1. In the second set, the Bobcats found success behind 13 kills, four aces and six block assists.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Gamecocks&#8217; 25-17 win in the third set once again gave them a lead.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWith the game on the line, Ohio battled back against Jacksonville State in the fourth set. The Bobcats tied the game at 2-2 with a 25-23 win.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nOhio was unable to quell Jacksonville State&#8217;s dominant effort in the fifth set. The Gamecocks went on the win the fifth in a 15-10 decision, ultimately taking the game 3-2.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Bobcats will be back in action at the Tru By Hilton Dayton Beavercreek Invitational. Ohio will face in-state rival Ohio State on Friday, Sept. 12 at 3 p.m. ET.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>#OUohyeah<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Match: vs. Ohio State 9\/12\/2025 | 3 p.m. &#13; Sep. 12 (Fri) \/ 3&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":206911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-206910","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115161504422459501","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}