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Heather Kocken
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North Dakota St. NDSU 1-1
3
Winner Loyola Chicago LUC 1-1
North Dakota St. NDSU
1-1
1
Final
3
Loyola Chicago LUC
1-1
Winner
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 4 F
North Dakota St. NDSU 16 25 23 17 (1)
Loyola Chicago LUC 25 16 25 25 (3)

Game Recap: Women's Volleyball |

Kocken’s Career Day Powers Loyola Past North Dakota State, 3-1

Redshirt senior drills career-high 17 kills as Ramblers earn first win of 2019

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TOLEDO, Ohio (August 31, 2019)
 
In Short
Heather Kocken totaled a career-high 17 kills to power Loyola University Chicago (1-1) to a 25-16, 16-25, 25-23, 25-17 victory over North Dakota State (1-1) this morning at Savage Arena in the third match of the Blue & Gold Tournament. 
 
How It Happened
Loyola benefitted from a quick start in the opening set, scoring five of the first six points to open up an early four-point advantage. Addie Barnes continued her strong play and accounted for four straight points (2 kills, 2 aces) after North Dakota State had closed within two, as the Ramblers' lead swelled to 10-4. The Bison chipped away at the deficit and worked their way within two points again, at 13-11, but four unanswered tallies extended the Ramblers' lead to 17-11 and they never looked back on their way to a 25-16 victory, hitting.360 in the set, while also serving up five aces.
 
A 7-0 spurt allowed North Dakota State to snap an 8-8 stalemate and stake claim to a 15-8 advantage midway through set two and Loyola was unable to recover from that onslaught, falling 25-16 to even the match at one set each.
 
Loyola turned in a comeback for the ages in the third set, closing out the set with a 9-3 run to rally from a 20-16 deficit and earn a 25-23 victory. Taylor Venuto sparked the Ramblers' rally, tallying a kill to ignite a string of six unanswered points that she capped with another kill to put Loyola ahead to stay, at 22-20.
 
Kocken keyed a Loyola run that gave it control of the fourth set, slamming her first kill of the set to snap a 3-3 tie and touch off a 5-1 run that gave the Ramblers an 8-4 edge. North Dakota State closed within three points on a pair of occasions, the last coming at 9-6, but Quinn Spieker accounted for a pair of kills in a 3-0 burst that ran the lead to 12-6. From there, Loyola never looked back en route to a 25-17 victory.
 
A Look At The Numbers
  • Kocken's 17 kills eclipse her previous career best of 14 set on a pair of occasions. The redshirt senior middle blocker hit .433 (17-4-30) for the match and added 4.5 blocks.
  • Spieker shook off a slow start to finish with 11 kills and 11 digs, while Venuto added eight kills.
  • Maddy Moser pitched in 20 digs and Loyola also received solid production from Elle Van Grinsven (6 kills), Barnes (7 kills, 8 digs, 4 aces) and Delilah Wolf (26 assists, 6 digs, 4 kills).
  • Allie Mauch connected for a team-high 13 kills to lead North Dakota State, which hit only .178 for the contest.
 
Up Next
The Ramblers take on Toledo in the final match of the Blue & Gold Tournament tonight at 6 p.m. CT.
 
 
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