North Dakota State Match

Friday @ 7 pm - Hausfeld Court, Frericks Center

My late father got his Masters degree from NDSU and they are the Bison. That’s the extent of my knowledge from this program, so I’m relying on stats from their first 3 matches last weekend.

Their go-to OH is 6’ Senior Ali Hinze. She wears #7. She was the Summit Leagues POW. She took 25% of their swings against UC Riverside, Seattle and Idaho in week 1. They are 3-0. But she only hit .216 which is low and up against teams that collectively only had 1.92 blocks per set.

Their roster doesn’t list Right-side OHs. My guess is they used a MB on the right pin just like we used Liana. So that might have been 6’1’” Freshman Arianna Blohm who wears #3. She hit .220 and was the only Bison to block at 1.0/set. The other candidate is 6’0” Jr MB Alexis Boling. She wears # 9 and hit .313. Leading the MB for the weekend was 6’1” Soph Ally Barth. She took 17% of the swings and hit a very good .482 percentage.

The other 2 OHs that saw action were 5’11” Freshman Lauren Jensen, # 13 who hit .300 which is very good and 6’ Junior Morgan Middleton, #16 who hit .297. Those two could have rounded out the 3 OHs in a rotation, including the right-side.

The setter is 5’10” Sr Kelly Johnson, #14 and the Libero is #10 Logan O’Brien. Both had nice stats for the weekend.