Oral Roberts Outlasts North Dakota State 3-1 in Summit League Volleyball Match

Saturday, November 15

Fargo, N.D.

5 p.m.

North Dakota State

14-16, 8-8Summit

Oral Roberts

15-14, 9-7Summit

Team	1	2	3	4	Final F
ORU	25	25	27	25	3
North Dakota State	22	20	29	22	1

Photo by: Richard Svaleson

11/15/2014 8:08:00 PM | Women's Volleyball

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FARGO, N.D.--Laura Milos hammered 20 kills and Sara Pope added 17 kills as visiting Oral Roberts University defeated North Dakota State University 3-1 (25-22, 25-20, 27-29 and 25-22 in a Summit League volleyball match played Saturday, Nov. 15, before 636 fans at the Bentson Bunker Fieldhouse.

North Dakota State finishes the regular season with an 8-8 record in the Summit League and 14-16 overall. The Bison are in fifth place in the league standings, a half-game ahead of Fort Wayne (7-8 SL, 13-18), who finish the regular season at Denver on Sunday. Oral Roberts finishes in fourth place with a 9-7 league record, 15-14 overall. The Summit League tournament will be held Nov. 21-23 at IUPUI in Indianapolis. Pairings for the six-team tournament are scheduled to be announced Sunday night.

Milos and Pope pounded away from the outside as the Eagles won the first two sets. ORU hit .481 in the opener. Pope hit .367 and Milos banged away at a .306 clip for the match and received help from Shelby Cox, who finished with 14 kills and hit .417. Lucija Bojanjac dished out 50 assists and added 12 digs.

North Dakota State faced set and match point on three occasions in the nip-and-tuck third set that featured 16 ties and seven lead changes. NDSU took advantage of an ORU service error to dodge the first bullet, then Jenni Fassbender came through with a pair of kills to move past the other two.

Fassbender's last kill tied the third set at 27-27 before Hadley Steffen responded with a pair of attacks to secure the win. Emily Miron, Fassbender and Steffen each had four kills to spark the Bison in the third. Miron also had three blocks and Steffen came up with six of her final 11 digs.

In the fourth set, Oral Roberts jumped out to an early lead in the fourth set taking advantage of NDSU attack errors, along with net work by Milos, Pope and Cox who combined for 17 of the Eagles' 18 kills.

The Bison chipped away and tied the match five times, eventually taking a 20-19 lead on a Fassbender fastball. Fassbender had four of her 12 kills in the fourth set. However, Oral Roberts came out of the timeout, tied the match on a Cox kill and surged ahead on three straight attacks by Milos.

Miron led North Dakota State with 14 kills and hit .385 overall. She started the match with seven straight kills without an error. Emily Milligan came up with 12 digs. Monica Claxton and Brianna Rasmusson combined for 37 assists. Jessica Jorgensen came off the bench to add a team-high five blocks.

Oral Roberts finished the match with 12 services aces compared to six for the Bison, but also had 14 service errors. Nika Mostahinic and Milos each finished with three aces.