MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State placed on a present in entrance of a capability crowd of three,044 followers on the inaugural recreation of Morgan Family Arena on Friday night time, because the Wildcats defeated Omaha in straight units (25-21, 25-23, 25-23).
The Wildcats (4-0) have now gained 12 straight units marking the primary 12-1 begin since 1978.
Jason Mansfield joins former Okay-State coach Jim Moore as the one head coaches to guide off their first on the helm of this system 4-0.
Aliyah Carter registered her 17th profession double-double with a match-high 14 kills and 10 digs. Carter has produced double determine kills in three of the Wildcats’ 4 matches this season.
Junior Izzi Szulczewski dished out 25 assists to information the Cats who hit .179 on the night time. Okay-State totaled 36 kills on 112 swings with 16 errors alongside six aces, 54 digs and 10 blocks. The Wildcats have now produced double digit blocks in three matches.
The Wildcats’ protection held off the Mavs within the home opener as UNO was restricted to hit simply .080 with 32 kills led by Kali Jurgensmeier. The sophomore exterior hitter totaled a match second-best 9 kills on 32 makes an attempt to hit .094 whereas Amanda Hardt led with a .250 assault proportion.
Omaha’s (0-4) setters Ivy Leuck and Olivia Curry mixed for 25 assists to information the Mavs 6-2 offense whereas Erica Fava had 4 service aces adopted by Shayla McCormick with three.
Defensively, McCormick and Fava every tallied 11 digs with three Mavericks incomes a pair of blocks.
SET-BY-SET
Set One – Okay-State 25, Omaha 21
Okay-State led for the whole lot of the opening set and raced to a 7-4 result in begin led by a pair of kills from Kadye Fernholz. Okay-State recorded back-to-back factors led by Loren Hinkle’s service ace earlier than Szulczewski brought on havoc on the internet together with her first solo block of the season.
Carter led with 5 kills on 11 makes an attempt whereas Liz Gregorski contributed 4 because the group totaled 13 (.194).
Jurgensmeier tallied 4 for the Mavs to hit .375 whereas McCormick registered a pair of aces.
Set Two – Okay-State 25, Omaha 23
The Mavs rallied within the second set with a 7-3 lead behind three kills from Amanda Hardt. Okay-State recorded back-to-back blocks from Myers and Sydney Bolding earlier than a 6-3 run leveled the rating. Carter delivered the ultimate blow because the sophomore recorded the group’s 12th kill of the set.
The Wildcats recorded 5 blocks led by Myers within the set because the protection held the Mavs to hit simply .073 within the second.
Set Three – Okay-State 25, Omaha 23
Down 16-10, the Wildcats collected a profitable 9-3 run to stage the set at 19-all till Carter’s 14th kill put the Wildcats on high for simply the time within the set. After two lead adjustments, a kill for Myers introduced Okay-State to set level till an assault error led the Wildcats to their 12th straight set win.
Carter hit .400 within the set with 5 kills adopted by Myers with three because the Wildcats hit a match-high .235 within the third set.
IN THEIR WORDS
Head Coach Jason Mansfield
On opening day…
“Oh, I feel it was nice. I do not suppose the day was an excessive amount of. I feel we had been very excited for this present day to come back. I believed it was actually tasteful, all the things that was completed, and the precise individuals obtained thanked. And we respect them for what they’ve completed. Just the thrill of the match. You by no means know what it may be like, and also you hope individuals come however you do not know what it may be like after they come. Not each place is like this, and it is unlucky for girls’s volleyball, however that is what it needs to be like at each single place. Unfortunately, it is not and so, to have a home courtroom benefit the place we now have help like that, I feel is all the things, and it is what these ladies deserve. And I’m glad that they get an opportunity to play in entrance of a crowd that’s behind them and supporting them and helps us win. I liked tonight, you already know, for plenty of causes.”
On what he is seen from gamers at this level of the season…
“They confirmed me that they will enhance, and development is an enormous deal in our program, they usually’ve improved the final couple of weeks. Some of them have improved within the final 9 months. And they’ve proven me they’re robust. You know, we have been in some fairly robust conditions thus far this season, the place we have been down, and the opposite group is enjoying rather well they usually’re making us play onerous volleyball and we now have to play higher and we now have. We have not waited to the following set to simply reset after which resolve that we will begin enjoying nice volleyball. I feel that was the perfect factor about tonight is we had been down each within the second and third set and we simply discovered methods to win the following level and simply good after good battle after battle and I liked that. That we did that tonight. I feel that speaks to their character loads.”
Senior Loren Hinkle
On enjoying within the new area…
“I feel the environment is much more volleyball centered. It’s much more, I might say shut knit as a result of it is the correct amount of area for a volleyball recreation. Just the thrill across the new facility helps amp us up too.”
Senior Aliyah Carter
On her favourite second of the night time…
“I actually suppose my favourite second was when Izzi stuffed that one ball and it was like I really feel like we have heard arenas that loud. My sophomore 12 months we went to Nebraska like we have heard arenas that loud however we have by no means heard prefer it on our facet, for us, and it was like proper there. It was such as you go searching everyone’s smiling and cheering and sporting purple and I used to be identical to that that was nuts.”
INSIDE THE BOX
- Wildcats moved to 4-0 whereas the Mavs dropped to 0-3
- Okay-State had 36 kills on 112 swings with 16 errors and 6 service aces
- The Wildcats protection held UNO to hit .080 with 32 kills on 112 makes an attempt and 23 errors
- Aliyah Carter collected her 17th profession double-double with 14 kills and 10 digs
- Six Wildcats recorded a block help led by Kadye Fernholz with 5
- Izzi Szulczewski paced the offense the 5-1 offense with 25 assists
- Mackenzie Morris totaled 20 digs for the second time this season
- Carter had a match-high 14 kills adopted by Myers with seven
- Fernholz hit .500 on the night time with 5 kills and 5 blocks
BEYOND THE BOX
- Friday’s match marked the first-ever contest within the Morgan Family Arena
- The Wildcats are off to a 4-0 begin for the second straight season
- Okay-State leads the all-time sequence 14-6 towards the Mavs
- Mackenzie Morris generated her 21st profession 20-plus dig match
- Aliyah Carter has hit double-figure kills in three of the Wildcats 4 matches
- Jason Mansfield is the second Okay-State coach to begin his profession 3-0, becoming a member of Jim Moore in 1994
- Senior center blocker Kadye Fernholz is 2 blocks away from her 300th profession block
- Five groups from the expanded Big 12 convention stay undefeated – BYU, UCF, Houston, Okay-State and Iowa State.
- Okay-State is 74-23 towards groups within the Summit League
WHAT’S NEXT
The Wildcats now set their eyes on Sunday afternoon as they tackle their first ranked opponent of the season with a non-conference matchup towards No. 4 Nebraska (4-0). First serve is slated for 4 p.m. at Morgan Family Arena. The match might be seen on the Big 12 Now on ESPN+.
