Admittedly, I know very little about volleyball.  YSU Sports Information Director for Volleyball, John Vogel, gets an attaboy for explaining what I was watching.  Former Lady Penguin cager turned athletic trainer, Kaitlyn March,  gets an assist for verifying that the winning squad is the one that gets to 25 first (win by two).  With all that being said I watched Butler University beat YSU in straight sets with scores of 25-16, 25-16, and 25-15.

With the loss, the Penguins fell to 2-17 on the season (0-6 in the Horizon League).  Butler improved to 10-7 (5-1 HL) and pretty much had their way with the Penguins.  YSU Head Coach Krista Burrows was frustrated by her teams performance.  “We need a better effort than we got tonight as well as some consistency.  We need to really work on our fundamentals, right now we just are not doing much of anything well.”

YSU Captain Dani Soubliere (pictured) shared the frustration level of Coach Burrows.  “At the beginning of the season we were communicating well, now we are really searching for answers, it’s very frustrating.  We will have a hard practice tomorrow, and we brought that upon ourselves the way we played tonight.”

Soubliere paced the Penguins in defeat with six kills from her setter position, a rarity of sorts.  Brittany McNeil had 11 digs for the Penguins.  Butler was led by Katie Daprile‘s 10 digs and Jessica Wolfe had 11 kills.