Iowa State Sweeps OU Volleyball

NORMAN, Okla. - The Oklahoma volleyball team dropped its fifth straight match Wednesday night in a sweep (30-26, 30-23, 30-23) to the Iowa State Cyclones in Ames, Iowa. The Sooners fell to 6-20 overall and 1-16 in the Big 12 while ISU snapped its six-match losing streak and improved to 14-14 and 7-10 in the conference.

"We cost ourselves a lot of points on reception errors and poor serving on our part," head coach Santiago Restrepo said. "Once we got down, we couldn't seem to fight back as well as we should have."

Boxscore: ISU 3, OU 0 | 2005 Season Stats

Once again, it was Oklahoma errors that were costly in the match as the Sooners only hit at a .115 clip while the Cyclones' hitting percentage was .192. OU recorded 28 attack errors in the three-game match while Iowa State only tallied 22. ISU was also impressive behind the line, recording seven aces against the Sooners.

Despite its offensive struggles, juniors Eliane Santos and Joanna Schmitt led all scorers in the match. Santos pounded a match-high 15 kills on a team-high .393 clip while Schmitt posted 12 kills in the loss.

The top two leaders for Iowa State were Erin Boeve and Jessica Klein who tallied 11 and 10 kills, respectively.

Iowa State showed why its one of the top defensive teams in the Big 12, collecting 51 digs to OU's 41.

Leading the defensive front for Iowa State were Laura Cady and Nicole Lorenzen, who each collected a match-high 12 digs, while Katie Churm, the Big 12 leader in digs per game, added 11 digs for the Cyclone defense.

Oklahoma could not match Iowa State's effort and only had one Sooner tally double-digit digs, sophomore Julie Chester who collected 10. Schmitt followed with nine.

At the net, Oklahoma edged the Cyclones posting 11 total blocks to Iowa State's 10. Santos led the effort at the net as well, recording six block assists while sophomore Anna Stadel followed with five.

Oklahoma will look to get back on the winning track as it prepares for a home match against the Baylor Bears this Saturday at 7 p.m. inside the Howard McCasland Field House. The Bears suffered a sweep to the No. 1 Nebraska Cornhuskers Wednesday night.

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