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PIONEERS
PUSH TARLETON STATE TO FIVE
WICHITA FALLS, TX—The Texas Woman’s
University volleyball team (2-15) pushed Tarleton State
University (5-10) to a five-set match, but fell behind
quickly in the deciding game and lost their third five-set
match of the season, 2-3 (30-25, 30-32, 17-30, 30-23, 10-15). Courtney
Lewis (San Antonio, TX/Panola College) turned
in her second double-double performance on the weekend
with 14 kills and 15 digs, but it was not enough to lift
the Pioneers to a victory.
TWU
came out firing in game one, hitting .250 with 14 kills on
36 swings. The Pioneers came from behind in the first frame
to take a 12-11 lead. They
extended that lead to as much as six points, 28-22, with Marci
Brinkman (Carrollton, TX/Newman Smith H.S.) finishing off the
TexAnns with a kill to win the game, 30-25. TWU looked unstoppable in game
two as they shot out to an 18-11 lead. TSU didn’t quit and battled
back to knot the game up at 19-19, thanks in large part to six kills from
Lacey Adkisson. Both teams exchanged the lead nine times in the games final
moments, with the TexAnns coming out on top 30-32. TSU controlled game
three from start to finish, hitting a match-high .308 with 14 kills and
taking a 1-2 advantage in the match with a 17-30 win.
The
Pioneers bounced back in the fourth frame, jumping out to
a five-point advantage, 13-8, after going on a 5-0 run. TWU
held onto their lead and
cruised to a 30-23 win by hitting a match-high .415 with 19 kills and two
errors on 41 swings. Melanie Pabalate (Fort Worth, TX/Navarro
College) recorded six of her 10 kills in game four. In the deciding
game, the score was tied 2-2 when the TexAnns went on a 2-6 run to put
the game away. The match ended on a kill from Desiree Ward as TSU won the
game 10-15. Tarleton State recorded 13 more kills than TWU and finished
with 73 and 35 errors on 197 attempts for a .193 attack percentage. Reed
finished with a match-high 20 kills to lead both squads.
The
Pioneers recorded a .191 hitting percentage with 60 kills
and 26 errors on 178 swings, but struggled on service reception
with 11 errors. Heather
Smith (Chino Hills CA/Ayala H.S.) and Brinkman joined Pabalate
and Lewis as the only Pioneers with double digits in kills. Smith finished
with 11 kills and five digs while Brinkman turned in 13 kills and seven
digs. Carley Messmer (Garland, TT/UT-San Antonio) finished
with 51 assists, her second highest total of the season. She also added
12 digs, recording her second double-double of the weekend.
Up
next, the Pioneers open up conference action as they travel
to Texas A&M-Commerce
on Thursday, Oct. 2. The match is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. Then on Saturday,
Oct. 4, they head to Durant, Oklahoma to face Southeastern Oklahoma State at
7 p.m.
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