The No. 14 Oregon Ducks (12-6, 5-3 Pac-12) were upset by the unranked Utah Utes (11-8, 3-5 Pac-12) in four sets (22-25, 18-25, 26-24, 23-25) on Sunday in Salt Lake City.
The Ducks started the match without three of their starters, Brooke Nuneviller, Brooke Van Sickle and Willow Johnson, due to a violation of team rules. Oregon went from a seven-player rotation to a six-player rotation after outside hitter Taylor Borup went down with a foot injury in the second set.
Oregon quickly found itself down two sets after Utah held Oregon to a .154 hitting percentage in set one and .062 hitting percentage in set two. Utah’s big block in front of the net was able to get a total of eight through the first two sets to stifle Oregon’s offense.
The Ducks rallied to win the third set with only a six-player rotation that included Camryn Tastad, a 5-foot-3 libero playing the front row.
Lindsey Vander Weide and Sumeet Gill led the Oregon offense throughout the match, but especially in set three. Vander Weide tallied 19 kills on 53 takes and Gill had 13 kills on 19 takes and accounted for 14.5 points.
Oregon, despite having a late comeback, committed a service error by August Raskie (46 assists, 10 digs) to go down 24-23, and a block by Megan Yeet and Kennedi Evans on Ronika Stone ended the game to give the Utes the upset.
Oregon will head back home after a four-match road trip to take on Cal and No. 2 Stanford this weekend at Matthew Knight Arena.
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No. 14 Oregon volleyball upset at Utah
Gabriel Ornelas
October 13, 2018
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