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COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio State (11-10 overall, 5-7 Big Ten) women’s volleyball team rallied from an 2-0 Minnesota (12-10, 5-7) lead to defeat the No. 22 Golden Gophers, 3-2, (24-30, 23-30, 30-27, 31-29, 15-10) Saturday night in Williams Arena in from of 6,285 fans. Ohio State’s Danielle Meyer (Sr., Cincinnati, Ohio) posted a match-high 22 points in the match with 20 kills, one ace serve and two assist blocks. Katie Dull (Fr., Solon, Ohio) had 15.5 points in the match with 12 kills, two ace serves and three assist blocks. OSU setter Briana McCarthy (Sr., Beaver Dam, Wis.) had 13 points with 10 kills, two ace serves and two assist blocks adding 10 digs for her first career triple-double. Minnesota’s Rachelle Hagerty produced a team-high 21.5 points with 15 kills, an ace serve, four solo blocks and three assists. Lauren Gibbemeyer contributed 18 points with 12 kills, an ace serve and 10 assist blocks and Brook Dieter added 14 with 12 kills and two ace serves.

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NORMAN, Okla. - The No. 21 Oklahoma volleyball team added another win to its column on Saturday night as it topped Texas A&M, 3-1 (28-30, 30-21, 30-28, 30-28), inside the McCasland Field House.

The Sooners, who sit at third in the Big 12 standings, improved to 18-5 and 10-3 in the Big 12 while the Aggies fell to 17-7 and 6-7 in league action. The win gave the Sooners a sweep over the Aggies this season as OU knocked off A&M in College Station earlier this year. It also marked the fourth straight win against the Aggies, but only the fifth in the series history.

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EAST LANSING, Mich. - Spartan fans came out in force to support Michigan State volleyball in its four-game victory Saturday night over Michigan for the 13th annual Jam Jenison. The Spartans took games one and two before the Wolverines picked up a win, but MSU rallied and stunned No. 20 Michigan in game four for a 3-1 win (38-36, 30-25, 26-30, 30-27) in front of 2,286 fans.

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ATHENS, Ohio - Behind the play of freshman outside hitter Melissa Szkutnik (Perrysburg, Ohio), the No. 19 Ohio volleyball team cruised to a 3-0 (30-21, 30-16, 30-12) victory Saturday night against Buffalo at the Convocation Center. Szkutnik connected on a match-high and new career-high 12 kills and hit .667 in the Bobcat win.

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MANHATTAN, Kan. – No. 15 Kansas State was powered to a 3-1 win over the Iowa State Cyclones on Saturday night in Ahearn Field House. The Wildcats, backed by tough play from the middle, earned the gutsy win by scores of 30-24, 30-26, 20-30, 35-33 to move to 17-6 overall and 9-4 in the Big 12 Conference. Iowa State remains at fifth in the conference with a 7-5 Big 12 record and falls to 13-9 overall. The win cemented K-State’s 11th sweep of the seasonal series since the formation of the Big 12 and second series victory this season.

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(San Francisco) - USF volleyball notched its biggest win of the season Saturday with a convincing 30-26, 30-22, 30-26 sweep of No. 12 San Diego in West Coast Conference action Saturday afternoon at War Memorial Gym. The Dons (15-9, 4-4 WCC) secure their first win against a top-25 opponent since 2003 and dispatch the highest ranked team in program history at the expense of the defending league champion Toreros (16-6, 6-2 WCC).

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LOS ANGELES - The No. 9 California volleyball team (17-5, 7-4 Pac-10) played its second five-game match in as many nights to defeat No. 7 UCLA (16-6, 6-5), pulling out the 3-2 victory (27-30, 30-20, 27-30, 30-27, 17-15) tonight at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles.

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The eighth-ranked Wisconsin volleyball team kept its hopes of a Big Ten Conference title alive with a 3-1 win at Purdue on Saturday night. The Badgers downed the Boilermakers 30-14, 30-19, 26-30, 30-23 to improved to 19-2 overall and stay in second place in the Big Ten at 11-1.

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LOS ANGELES - Senior All-America outside hitter Asia Kaczor (Wroclaw, Poland/College of Southern Idaho) recorded a career-high 28 kills Saturday as the No. 6 USC Trojans defeated the No. 3 Stanford Cardinal, 3-1 (20-30, 30-25, 30-24, 30-28), in a Pac-10 Conference match at the Galen Center. The Trojans avenged their earlier 3-0 loss at Stanford on Sept. 27.

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BOULDER, Colo. -- The fifth-ranked Texas Volleyball team used four double-digit kill performances to sweep Big 12 Conference foe Colorado, Saturday afternoon at the Coors Events Center. Freshman outside hitter Juliann Faucette highlighted the Longhorns' attack with 17 kills in UT's 30-27, 30-19, 30-28 victory.

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