LOS ANGELES, Calif. – The Oregon volleyball team generated a .333 hitting percentage Friday night but couldn’t slow down USC in a four-set road loss at the Galen Center in Los Angeles. Mimi Colyer had 20 kills in the setback and Brooke Nuneviller tallied her 12th double-double of the year with 13 kills and a team-high 17 digs.
With the loss, the Ducks are now 10-5 overall with a 4-3 mark in Pac-12 play. The results also snapped Oregon’s five-match winning streak against USC.
Friday night marked the third-consecutive outing with at least 20 kills for Colyer. Nuneviller and Gloria Mutiri–with 10 kills–each hit .364 against the Trojans. Sophomore middle Kiari Robey had eight kills to match her season high, doing so behind a .636 hitting percentage. In directing the UO offense, setter Elise Ferreira dished out a match-high 50 assists.
How It Happened
From 10-all in the first set, USC (14-4, 6-1) rattled off five of the next seven points to take a 15-12 lead at the media timeout. The home team pushed its lead to 21-16 but the Ducks used a three-point surge to pull to within two. USC answered with three in a row of its own to grab a handful of set points.
Oregon extended play with back-to-back kills from Mutiri but the Trojans turned to Skylar Fields for the kill and a 1-0 match lead.
The Ducks responded in the second, jumping out to an early 5-2 lead with an ace by sophomore Daley McClellan. In a show of the back-and-forth flow of play, the teams were tied eight times until the score was…
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