Bradley BRAD 8-16, 1-9 MVC

Missouri State MSU 17-5, 9-0 MVC

Bradley BRAD

8-16, 1-9 MVC

Final

Oct. 20, 2017

Missouri State MSU

17-5, 9-0 MVC

Set Scores
Team	1	2	3	4	5	F
Bradley BRAD	17	25	25	14	17	(2)
Missouri State MSU	25	20	19	25	19	(3)

Box Score

Braves Push Missouri State To The Brink

Box Score

Game Recap: Volleyball | 10/20/2017 10:30:00 PM

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – With Halloween right around the corner, Bradley Volleyball put a scare into league-leading Missouri State after taking two of the first three sets, but the Bears rallied to top the Braves 25-17, 20-25, 19-25, 25-14, 19-17 Friday at the Hammons Student Center.

Junior Erica Haslag helped highlight Bradley's night with a career-best 30 kills (the most by a Brave since 2005) as she became the 14^th player in program history to record 1,000 career kills. Sophomore Hannah Angeli added her 17^th double-double of the year with 57 assists and 18 digs, while junior libero Yavianliz Rosado was one assist short of her third double-double of the year with nine assists and a match-high 27 digs.

Bradley (8-16 overall, 1-9 MVC) took a two-sets-to-one lead with a 25-19 win in the third set and later had several chances to close out the road win after holding match-point at 14-12 in the fifth. Missouri State (17-5 overall, 9-0 MVC), which picked up its 10^th consecutive victory, fought off four match points by the Braves and eventually pulled out the 19-17 win in the fifth to take the match. Bradley won two sets on the road against the Bears for the first time since 2010.

In the opening set, Bradley had to rally despite jumping out to an early 5-1 lead and nearly made up a six-point deficit with a 5-0 run which included two Haslag kills to pull within one at 17-16. Missouri State answered with three consecutive points, however, and closed out a 25-17 first-set victory with an 8-1 run.

Bradley got even with a 25-20 win in the second set. Haslag had nine kills on 16 swings with no errors in the second as she helped the Braves hit .341 as a team in the frame. Sophomore Kathryn Graf sparked a 3-0 BU spurt with a kill and Haslag had the final two Bradley points of the stanza on kills as the Braves evened the match at one set each.

Haslag had back-to-back kills early in the third set to open a 7-1 Bradley run, notching her 1,000^th career kill during the spurt and helped the Braves grab a 10-3 lead. Missouri State managed to pull within two points at 17-15 before Bradley was able to pull away. With the Braves leading 18-16, Bradley forced four MSU attack errors and senior Jamie Livaudais added one of her 17 kills on the night to help give the Braves a 23-16 lead. Bradley went on to take the set 25-19.

Missouri State came out swinging in the fourth and hit a blistering .382 as the Bears forced a deciding fifth set with a 25-14 victory. MSU All-American Lily Johnson had seven kills with no errors in the fourth to lead the Bears.

Bradley trailed by as many as four points (8-4) in the fifth set, before coming back. Livaudais sandwiched a pair of kills around one from Haslag, who had seven kills and five digs in the fifth, to cut the Missouri State lead to one at 8-7. Later in the frame, Haslag gave Bradley an 11-10 lead with a kill and broke ties at 11-11 and 12-12 with two more kills as the Braves held a 13-12 advantage.

Haslag's 30^th kill of the night gave Bradley match point at 14-12, only to have Missouri State answer with back-to-back points to pull even at 14-14. Both teams fought off potential match points before Bradley went back in front 17-16 on a Graf kill. Mikaela Mosquera tied things up again at 17-17 with a kill for Missouri State and Aubrey Cheffey added one of her own to give the Bears an 18-17 edge. Missouri State came up with a block on the next play as the Bears kept Bradley from pulling out its first victory in Springfield, Mo. since 1999.

Rosado's match-high 27 digs pushed her season total to 493, which now ranks seventh among Bradley season marks and she is just seven digs from the sixth 500-dig season in program history. Haslag moved up three spots on Bradley's career kills list into 12^th with her 30-kill effort and now has 1,014 kills as a Brave. Haslag is the third fastest player in program history to reach 1,000 career kills behind Bradley Hall of Famers Lindsay Stalzer and Jenny Pavlas.

Bradley closes out a four-match Missouri Valley Conference road swing Saturday with a 7 p.m. match at Southern Illinois.

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