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Score: Ohio 3, Florida Gulf Coast 1 (15-25, 25-18, 25-18, 25-17)
Location: Fort Meyers, Fla. (Alico Arena)
Record: Ohio 10-3, Florida Gulf Coast 7-6
Short Story: The Ohio volleyball team (10-3) completed a perfect 3-0 weekend in the Sunshine State courtesy of a 3-1 (15-25, 25-18, 25-18, 25-17) victory at Florida Gulf Coast (7-6) on Saturday (Sept. 19) at Alico Arena in Fort Myers, Fla.

THE BASICS
• Ohio attacked at a .264 pace while limiting Florida Gulf Coast to a .188 hitting percentage.
• Sophomore outside hitter Jaime Kosiorek (Chagrin Falls, Ohio) led the match with 18 kills and just missed out on a double-double with nine digs. She also contributed two assisted blocks.
• Senior middle blocker Karin Bull (Bloomington, Minn.) tallied a match-high eight assisted blocks and chipped in eight kills and an assist.
• Senior middle blocker/outside hitter Shelby Walker (Bradenton, Fla.) recorded nine kills and two total blocks (one solo, one assisted).
• Redshirt sophomore middle blocker Ali Lake (Liberty Township, Ohio) notched nine kills, an assisted block and two digs.
• Senior setter Abby Gilleland (Bull Valley, Ill.) achieved a double-double with a match-high 42 assists in addition to 12 digs. She also piled up a season-high five total blocks (one solo, four assisted) in addition to three kills and two service aces.
• Senior libero Meredith Ashy (Louisville, Ky.) compiled a match-high 26 digs to go along with six assists and a service ace.
• Junior outside hitter/libero Mallory Salis (Oak Lawn, Ill.) and freshman libero Erica Walker (Wheaton, Ill.) joined Gilleland and Ashy with double-digit digs, tallying 14 and 10, respectively. Salis added three kills, two servie aces and an assisted block while Walker contributed two service aces and an assist.
• Freshman outside hitter Amanda Carroll led Florida Gulf Coast with 14 kills and achieved a double-double with 11 digs. She also tallied an assisted block.
• Freshman outside hitter Karissa Rhoades added 11 kills, an assisted block and an assist for the Eagles while junior middle blocker Marlene Moeller finished with nine kills and a dig.
• Freshman setter Maggie Rick led Florida Gulf Coast with 40 assists and chipped in three kills and nine digs.
• Senior outside hitter Vanessa Benke totaled a team-high 25 digs in addition to a kill, a service ace and four assists for the Eagles. Sophomore outside hitter/libero Mackenzie Allen also finished with double-digit digs, recording 13 to go along with seven kills. 

HOW IT HAPPENED
• Florida Gulf Coast seized a 10-point victory in the opening set. The Eagles opened with a 13-8 advantage thanks to three kills apiece by Rhoades and Carroll and a solo block by freshman middle blocker Elisa Anne Aldrich. Kills by Shelby Walker and Salis cut Florida Gulf Coast's edge down to three at 13-10, but the Eagles closed out the set win on a a 12-5 run due in large part to five errors by the Bobcats.
• The second set saw the two squads trade points in the early going until Ohio broke an all-tie by going on a 17-10 run to even the match at one-all. The Bobcats used two kills apiece by Shelby Walker and Kosiorek to take a 15-10 lead. The Eagles counterd with a 6-1 run to tie the set at 16-all, but three kills by Kosiorek, kills by Gilleland and Shelby Walker and double blocks by Bull and Gilleland and Kosiorek and Bull allowed the Bobcats to close out the set victory with a 9-2 run.
• Four kills by Kosiorek, kills by Bull, Lake and redshirt freshman middle blocker Katie Nelson (Regina, Saskatchewan) and a service ace by Ashy allowed Ohio to take a 10-7 lead in the third set. A kill by Rhoades and a triple block by Carroll, Rhoades and sophomore middle blocker Lauren Tutwiler and a kill by Carroll helped the Eagles rattle off four straight points and take an 11-10 lead. The teams continued to trade points until, with the set tied at 15-all, Ohio took a 2-1 match lead with a 10-3 run that included two kills apiece by Kosiorek and Nelson, kills by Lake, Salis and Shelby Walker.
• Ohio jumped out to an early 5-4 edge in the fourth set and never relinquished the lead en route to an eight-point victory that sealed the match victory. Lake tallied five kills in the set while Bull posted three assisted blocks.

BEYOND THE BOX SCORE
• The win marked Ohio's second in a row over Florida Gulf Coast. The Bobcats also recorded a 3-1 (25-20, 20-25, 25-11, 25-20) victory over the Eagles on Friday (Sept. 18). The Green & White opened its weekend with a 3-1(25-20, 25-22, 23-25, 25-20) win over Florida Atlantic earlier Friday afternoon.
• Kosiorek finished with double-digit kills for the 10th time this season and fifth match in a row. She's achieved the feat 24 times in her career.
• Bull tallied five or more total blocks for the seventh time this year and fifth time in the last six matches. She' s done so 34 times in her career.
• Gilleland achieved her seventh double-double of the season and 32nd of her career. She has recorded double-digit assists 105 times and double-digit digs 35 times in her career.
• Ashy -- the two-time reigning Mid-American Conference East Division Defensive Player of the Week -- recorded double-digit digs for the 12th time in 2015 and finished with 20 or more for the sixth time. She's notched double-digit digs 96 times in her career and has tallied 20 or more on 38 occasions.
• Salis posted double-digit digs for the sixth time this year and 22 times in her career.
• Erica Walker has compiled double-digit digs four times in 2015 and in each of the last two matches.

QUOTABLE
"This weekend was a good tune up for beginning MAC play next week. FAU and FGCU are different style teams from each other, and they both pushed us. Playing the same opponent on back-to-back nights was an unusual experience, and we didn't do a good job being focused to start the match tonight. We recovered well, though, and hit over .300 for the remainder of the match." -- Second-year head coach Deane Webb

WHAT'S NEXT
Ohio begins its quest for a 10th MAC regular season title next weekend at the Convocation Center, hosting Bowling Green on Friday (Sept. 25) and archrival Miami on Saturday (Sept. 26) in a 'Battle of the Bricks' matchup. Both matches are set to get underway at 7 p.m. ET.

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