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Score: Louisville 3, Ohio 2 (25-19, 25-27, 23-25, 25-22, 15-9)
Records: Ohio (7-3), Louisville (5-3)
Location: Louisville, Ky. (Cardinal Arena)
Short Story: The Ohio volleyball team (7-3) dropped a hard-fought 3-2 (25-19, 25-27, 23-25, 25-22, 15-9) decision to host Louisville (5-3) on Saturday (Sept. 12) in the final match of the Active Ankle Challenge at Cardinal Arena.

THE BASICS
• Sophomore outside hitter Jaime Kosiorek (Chagrin Falls, Ohio) led the Bobcats with 12 kills and added 11 digs. She also tallied a match-high three service aces.
• Senior middle blocker Shelby Walker (Bradenton, Fla.) totaled 11 kills and two assisted blocks.
• Senior setter Abby Gilleland (Bull Valley, Ill.) tallied a team-high 44 assists as well as 15 digs. She also recorded four kills and four assisted blocks.
• Senior libero Meredith Ashy (Louisville, Ky.) -- the reigning Mid-American Conference East Division Defensive Player of the Week -- reeled in a team-high 25 digs and also contributed three assists.
• Senior middle blocker Karin Bull (Bloomington, Minn.) posted a season-high eight assisted blocks to lead the match. She also tallied five kills.
• Redshirt sophomore middle blocker Ali Lake (Liberty Township, Ohio) notched eight kills, four assisted blocks and a dig.
• Junior outside hitter/libero Mallory Salis (Oak Lawn, Ill.) compiled15 digs, as well as six kills, two service aces and an assist.
• Louisville was led by senior outside hitter Erin Fairs with 22 kills. She also totaled eight digs and three total blocks (two solo, one assisted).
• Sophomore middle blocker/opposite hitter Tess Clark recorded 19 kills and three assisted blocks for Louisville.
• Junior outside hitter Maya McClendon pitched in 13 kills, two service aces, a solo block and six digs for the Cardinals.
• Junior outside hitter/middle blocker Janelle Jenkins achieved a double-double for the Cardinals, racking up 12 kills and 13 digs to go along with three assisted blocks, two service aces and an assist.
• Sophomore middle blocker Maggie DeJong posted 10 kills and three total blocks (one solo, two assisted) for Louisville.
• Senior setter Katie George tallied a match-high 67 assists for the Cardinals and recorded a double-double with 12 digs. She also posted two total blocks (one solo, one assisted). 
• Freshman libero Molly Sauer totaled a match-high 30 digs and chipped in two service aces and two assists for the Cardinals.

HOW IT HAPPENED
• Ohio and Louisville traded point-for-point to begin the opening set. Tied at 9-all, Ohio got on a 6-3 run to take a 15-12 lead and force Louisville to call timeout. Ohio saw their lead quickly fade, as Louisville rallied with a 7-1 run to take a 19-16 lead. Down three points, Lake grabbed two kills to cut Ohio's deficit, but Louisville's offense took control with four kills to take the first set, 25-19.
• Down 10-8 in the second set, Ohio drew closer to the Cardinals. Louisville grabbed three consecutive kills to push the Bobcats further down, 13-8, then took a six-point advantage, 19-13, after Ohio's timeout. The Bobcats battled back, though. A 6-1 run for the Green & White brought them to a 20-19 deficit. Ohio took its first lead of the set on a kill from Salis, and from there Kosiorek and Walker got kills to give the Bobcats a 23-22 lead. With the 'Cats sitting on set point, 24-22, Louisville was able to score two points to tie the set. Ohio's 3-1 run to close the set victory was highlighted by kills from Walker and redshirt freshman middle blocker Katie Nelson (Regina, Saskatchewan).
• The third set saw a tight, point-for-point set. Louisville and Ohio battled to a 15-all tie until Kosiorek's two aces and Louisville's attack error allowed Ohio to gain a two-point edge at 18-16. Gilleland and Bull each posted two kills to give Ohio its largest lead of the set, 20-14. The Bobcats sat on set point 24-19, but Louisville wouldn't go away. Four straight points by the Cardinals cut Ohio's lead down to one, but the Bobcats got a kill from Bull to finish the set, 25-23.
• The Cardinals wasted no time in the fourth set, jumping out to a 14-8 lead on Ohio to start. Louisville kept rolling, riding a 5-1 run to take the largest lead of the match, 19-9. Attack errors by the Cardinals let the Bobcats pick and chew at Louisville's lead, and soon Ohio found themselves down by only two at 23-21. Ohio allowed two Cardinal kills to end the set, though, giving Louisville a 25-22 set win and pushing the match to a decisve fifth set.
• The beginning of the fifth set saw Ohio and Louisville tied 5-5, but the Cardinals rattled off an 8-2 run to take a 13-7 lead. A Cardinal service error and a double block by Nelson and Lake cut Louisville's avantage down to four, but back-to-back kills by Fairs ended the match.

BEYOND THE BOX SCORE
• The Bobcats closed out the Active Ankle Challenge with a 2-1 mark. Ohio opened the weekend by sweeping Seton Hall on Friday (Sept. 11), 3-0 (25-20, 26-24, 25-19), then sweeping Utah, 3-0 (25-16, 26-24, 25-17) on Saturday afternoon.
• Ashy and Gilleland were named to the All-Active Ankle Challenge Team.
• Kosiorek tallied double-digit kills for the seventh time this season and second match in a row. She also achieved her fifth double-double of the year.
• Walker posted double-digit kills for the third time this season.
• Bull has tallied five or more total blocks on five occasions this year -- including each of the last three matches.
• Gilleland has recorded five double-doubles this year. She's post 40 or more assists on four occasions this season.
• Salis has totaled double-digit digs four times this season.

WHAT'S NEXT
Ohio travels to a warmer climate for its final non-conference tournament of the 2015 season, visiting Fort Myers, Fla., for the Florida Gulf Coast Invitational next weekend. The Bobcats will play Florida Atlantic on Friday (Sept. 18) at 12:30 p.m. ET, then take on the host Eagles at 7 p.m. ET. Ohio will face Florida Gulf Coast again on Saturday (Sept. 19) at 6 p.m. ET.

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