Cougs return to Bohler for Friday battle with 12th-ranked Oregon

PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State volleyball (10-5, 2-2 Pac-12) gets set host its first Pac-12 matches of the season as the Cougars return home for two matches in Bohler Gym starting with 12^th-ranked Oregon (10-2, 4-0 Pac-12).  WSU has won four straight conference home openers which includes three top-25 wins and a 3-1 win over an unranked Oregon team to open the spring 2021 season.

WSU split its first two weekends of conference play and Magda Jehlarova was named the conference’s defensive player of the week on Monday after she averaged 2.71 blocks/set and 3.57 kills/set, pacing the Cougars in both categories last weekend.  Jehlarova posted a program-record 11 total blocks as the Cougs collected a 3-0 win at Cal last Friday night and followed up with another eight blocks at Stanford on Sunday.  WSU narrowly missed pushing ninth-ranked Stanford to a fifth set on Sunday before the Cardinal came-from-behind in the fourth to steal the win.

Match Info:

>> vs No. 12 Oregon (10-2, 4-0 Pac-12)  |  Pac-12 Network Oregon

>> Friday, Oct. 7 // First serve – 7:04  p.m.// Pullman, Wash. – Bohler Gym

>> Live Stats // wsucougars.com/sports/womens-volleyball

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Quick Notes:

>> Washington State has won four-straight conference home openers and four of its last five with a sweep over 24th-ranked Colorado in last season’s Pac-12 opener.

>> WSU beat Oregon, 3-1, in January of 2021 to open the conference-only 2020 season that was played during the Spring of ’21 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

>> The Cougars won both of last season’s matchups with Oregon including a sweep on the road in October of last year and a 3-2 win over 16^th-ranked Oregon in Pullman last November.

>> Magda Jehlarova, last week’s Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week is the Pac-12’s active leader in blocks/set (1.42) and is fourth among active players in career hitting percentage (.366).  She is No. 21 in the nation and first in the Pac-12 with 77 total blocks this season.

>> Pia Timmer tied for the team-lead with 13 kills in last Friday’s sweep at Cal and surpassed the 1,000 career kills mark during the first set in Berkeley.  She became the 15^th player all-time to reach 1,000 career kills against Cal and later passed head coach Jen Greeny (Stinson) for 14^th on the all-time career kills list where she…