Congratulations to the Men's Volleyball Team on winning the 2011 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP!
Setter Steven Kehoe was named the Most Outstanding Player of the 2011 Championships, which were held at Recreation Hall on the Penn State campus. Ohio State was the #3 seed, advancing to today's finals after defeating the host Nittany Lions, the #2 seed, on Thursday night.
The Buckeyes opponent was UC-Santa Barbara, the #4 seed that advanced to the final by beating the #1 USC Trojans earlier Thursday evening. Before today's match, tOSU was 0-7 all-time against the Gauchos.
In the best-of-five set match, UCSB won the opening set 25-20 with the help of numerous service errors by Ohio State. The Buckeyes won the second set 25-20, and moved to the brink of the title by also taking the third by a 25-19 margin. UCSB battled back to win the fourth set 25-22, setting up a winner-take-all 5th set, which meant that the first team to 15, with a 2-point advantage, would claim the title. On Championship point (14-9), Kehoe blocked a kill attempt by UCSB to set off an on-court celebration which carried over to the tOSU-dominated crowd.
Once again this year, the crowd included 3-time All-American and NCAA Champion (at Stanford) Bryn Kehoe, who this year watched her brother win an NCAA title and be named the MOP. Last year she watched the Buckeyes fall in the semis to Stanford, who defeated Penn State in the final to claim the 2010 title.
2011 Championship MOP Steven Kehoe
Shawn Sangrey also had an outstanding performance in today's title match, pounding a career-high 30 kills to drive the Buckeyes to the title.
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Congrats coach. Well earned culmination of a long career. Nice to see the good guys win.