“Sometimes you just got to win ugly,” BYU coach Shawn Olmstead said after BYU defeated No. 15 Ohio State Friday evening at the Smith Fieldhouse. The eighth-ranked Cougars won by the slimmest of margins, needing four sets to earn a seventh victory at home. BYU took care of business with set scores of 25-23, 25-23, 23-25, and 25-21. “We just made these strange errors,” Olmstead continued. “There’s moments where you’ve got to just move on and you’ve got to give the ball to the opponent. … Volleyball is always a game of momentum.” The Cougars had just enough momentum to beat the Buckeyes in the schools’ first meeting in four years. The match was the eighth time that Ohio State had made the trip to Provo, but just the second time in the last 21 years. BYU entered the contest having lost four of its last six contests, all…
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