Meyer gets her 1,000th kill
Bowling Green State University 5-foot-10 junior outside hitter Katelyn Meyer (Eastwood) has already registered 1,000 career kills.
It happened while Bowling Green picked up their 10th sweep of the season with a 3-0 victory over Buffalo. The win comes on the back of a .469 hitting percentage for the Falcons with a total of just seven attack errors over the three sets while landing 53 kills on 98 attempts.
With her first kill of the night that gave the Falcons a 5-4 lead in the first set, Meyer tallied her 1,000th career kill for the Orange and Brown. Meyer ended the night with 12 kills, tied with Petra Indrova for the team lead with Jacqueline Askin not far behind with 11.
Both Indrova and Meyer are closing in on 300 kills this season, a mark that only three players in the MAC have reached thus far. Meyer currently stands at 292 kills, needing just eight more to reach the mark. Her current total places her in a tie for 25th in the nation for total kills. So far this season, only Missouri State has two players with 300 or more kills, seeing one player with 328 and another with 316.
The win over Buffalo came on the heels of BG’s only loss, 3-2 to Toledo.
“This was a great bounce-back win that showed our focus and efficiency, especially offensively. I loved how determined and ready all of our players were to play up to our standards. Our solid serve receive, and better defensive effort allowed (outside hitter) Hanna (Best) to run a great offense. All the hitters were aggressive and efficient at the same time, which is always our goal,” said BGSU coach Danijela Tomic.
The following day, BG swept Buffalo again and the Falcons are Mid-American Conference regular season champions. With back-to-back sweeps over Buffalo to close out the regular season, the Falcons now have been able to tally 11 sweeps this season, coming against seven different teams. The last time the Falcons hit double-digit sweeps was when they tallied 13 during the 2016 campaign, finishing with a 21-10 record that season.
For the first time since the 2008 season the Falcons have tallied consecutive 20-win seasons. Bowling Green concluded the 2019 season with a 20-13 record and now has a 20-1 standing this year. The last time the team was able to do so came in a streak of three consecutive 20-win seasons, spanning from 2006-2008. In 2006 the Falcons went 26-6 before being 21-10 in 2007 and then 25-9 in 2008.
The BGSU Department of Athletics was set to host the MAC volleyball tournament April 2-3 at the Stroh Center. The regular season champion and top seeded Falcons were to host Western Michigan (No. 2 seed), Ohio (No. 3), and Miami (No. 4) in this two-day tournament. A MAC tournament championship would automatically qualify the Falcons for its first NCAA Division I tournament bid since 2012.