SEATTLE – Emphatic turned into gritty today for the 16th-ranked Husky volleyball team, as the Dawgs nearly had a sweep on their hands against 12th-ranked Oregon, but instead had to withstand a couple big rallies before finally securing a major victory in five sets. Claire Hoffman’s 22 kills helped the Huskies (13-3, 5-1 Pac-12) finish off the Ducks (10-3, 4-2) by the count of 25-20, 25-18, 22-25, 21-25, 15-12.
A season-high crowd of 3,981 helped the Huskies right the ship after the Ducks had won sets three and four to take it to the deciding fifth. The Dawgs knocked Oregon out of a first-place tie in the Pac-12 race, and remain even with Stanford and USC at 5-1.
Washington won the first five points of the fifth set, and built a lead up to 11-3. The Dawgs had been just five points away in the third set, up 20-17 and going for the sweep, when Oregon fought back to extend things. Now in the fifth, Oregon made another last gasp run to cut it to 12-9, before kills by Emoni Bush and Hoffman got them to match point at 14-9. Still Oregon saved three Husky chances to reach 14-12, but an Oregon attack error on the fourth chance wrapped it up, 15-12.
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