NIU volleyball wins with a ‘screw it’ mentality

Today was the day where everything seemed to fall in place for the Huskies. NIU volleyball won 3–2 against Oakland University on Thursday night in a game that got better by the set for the Huskies. “I think we’re so over losing and we know that we can give so much more than like what we’ve shown this season. We really went out there tonight and we just said, ‘Screw it, we’re just gonna go out there, we’re gonna play hard. We’re gonna play our volleyball.’’ freshman outside hitter Katie Pahl said. Set one Oakland held the lead for the first half of the set and continued to hold on with the Huskies trailing slightly behind. About halfway through, after a timeout, NIU tried to grab points where they could, but they were unsuccessful. The Grizzlies continued to widen that gap to the point it was unrecoverable, and the Huskies lost the first set 25–19. Set two A momentum shift happened going into the second set. NIU takes the start of the set with a lead.

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