Nebraska volleyball sweeps Maryland, bouncing back from Wisconsin loss

A second set that was virtually all domination for the Nebraska volleyball group was the spotlight of a three-set win in opposition to Maryland on Saturday.

The 25-16, 25-9, 25-19 win on the Devaney Sports activities Heart gave the No. 1 Huskers some confidence again after getting swept by No. 5 Wisconsin on Wednesday.

So Nebraska (19-2, 11-1 Huge Ten) remains to be tied with Wisconsin and Ohio State for first place within the league.

Late within the second set, Madi Kubik served an 8-0 run that included two aces and put the Huskers up 19-5. Earlier than that, Whitney Launenstein served a 4-0 run to steer 11-4.

Maryland had extra hitting errors (eight) than kills (six) within the second set and had a detrimental hitting proportion. Nebraska, in the meantime, was clicking with 12 kills on 25 makes an attempt to hit .440 for the set.

Coach John Cook dinner stated Nebraska’s serving brought on Maryland all types of issues through the lopsided second set.

“I understand how they felt, as a result of that’s we felt Wednesday night time,” Cook dinner stated. “When you’ll be able to’t move serves, it’s actually exhausting to kill a ball in opposition to an amazing defensive group. We’re an amazing defensive group.”

Maryland is glad to be finished enjoying Nebraska, with its worst two hitting matches of the season every coming in opposition to Nebraska.

On Saturday, Maryland had a .000 hitting proportion. Earlier this month, the Terrapins hit simply .046 in a four-set loss in opposition to Nebraska.

“We had been actually sharp and simply form of deflated Maryland, I feel,” Cook dinner stated. “Particularly once we began blocking them.”

Maryland didn’t have the success it did blocking in opposition to Nebraska within the first match, when the Terrapins had 18 blocks. On Saturday Maryland didn’t get a block till late within the first set, solely had two via two units and completed with a season-low 5 blocks.

Nebraska had 12 blocks, led by Kaitlyn Hord with 9 and Lauenstein with eight.

And Nebraska’s two-setter offense produced one other balanced assault with all six hitters having no less than 5 kills.

Bekka Allick, Lindsay Krause and Lauenstein every had seven kills. Ally Batenhorst, Kubik and Hord had 5 apiece

“Which means we’re spreading across the ball and everybody was caring for enterprise tonight,” Husker setter Nicklin Hames stated. “It was super-easy to run our offense as a result of everybody was terminating. And we actually bought the middles concerned, which I feel opened up lots of issues.”

Nebraska had a .263 hitting proportion.

Nebraska had six ace serves, and didn’t concede one in a robust total match in serve-receive. Maryland picked on Kubik whereas serving, however she held up nicely by not getting aced on 22 makes an attempt.

“I feel Madi was on a mission,” Cook dinner stated. “All our passers had been on a mission after Wednesday night time. We didn’t have a great effort up there.”

Getting swept by the Wisconsin brought on lots of reflection by the Nebraska gamers.

“Whenever you wish to win one thing so dangerous, it’s actually draining and irritating once you don’t have a profitable consequence,” Hames stated. “And I feel that’s how we felt on Wednesday. We had been disillusioned with how we performed, as a result of we knew it could possibly be loads higher. Nevertheless it simply reveals the place we have to go.”

Nebraska will get one other crack at Wisconsin through the last week of the season, and now they know what degree they should get to by then.

“We’re simply going to attempt to go good to nice, and play our greatest in these huge moments, which I feel we struggled with on Wednesday,” Hames stated.