Volleyball Tops TCU in Five Sets
October 11, 2014 08:26 PM | General
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Four Mountaineers posted career days to lead the West Virginia University volleyball team past TCU, 3-2, snapping a three-match losing streak on Saturday afternoon at the WVU Coliseum. WVU earned the Big 12 victory in set scores of 23-25, 25-20, 25-20, 23-25 and 15-11.
The win pushes the Mountaineers to 12-7 overall and 2-3 in the Big 12. The Horned Frogs move to 12-7 overall and 2-3 in league action. It marked just the second time this season West Virginia has gone to five sets as they previously fell to No. 2 Texas 3-2 on September 24.
“I think they just put some heart out on the court,” said coach Jill Kramer. “And we hadn’t seen that this week. It was good to see that and I told them it was good to have them back. They were fighting and playing hard, and we needed to do that to get back on track.”
Jordan Anderson recorded a career-best 36 kills, after hitting her previous record of 24 in the third set. In addition to hitting for a .516 clip, she just missed a double-double with nine digs. Anderson also added a block assist and an ace to the score sheet.
Brittany Sample dished out a career-best 60 assists in the match, also finishing with a pair of aces, a pair of blocks and a team-best 13 digs for a double-double. Caleah Wells posted a season-high and tied her personal best with 13 kills, hitting for a .357 clip. Wells also had a trio of block assists and a pair of digs.
Hannah Shreve had six block assists, tying her career best, as WVU recorded 9.0 team blocks in the match. In addition to Anderson and Attea, Gianna Gotterba and Anna Panagiotakopoulos finished in double figure digs with 11 and 10, respectively. Gotterba was also responsible for a pair of aces, as was Shreve.
Hannah Sackett had seven kills with Shreve adding four. The Mountaineers tallied a season-high 79 kills and hit .310, marking their first time over .300 since September 13 against Montana.
Stephanie Holland had 22 kills and 14 digs for the Horned Frogs, who hit .288 with 63 kills. Macy Capen had a team-best three block assists as TCU recorded 9.0 in the match.
Hitting .233 with 17 kills, the Mountaineers couldn’t take set one despite out-blocking the Horned Frogs. After playing to a 7-7 tie, TCU scored three straight to take a 10-7 advantage before taking three more in a row to lead 19-14 on a service ace. Three straight from WVU, including back-to-back kills by Anderson, made it a one-point match with TCU still leading 20-19. Anderson and Sackett found the court while Wells and Attea teamed for a block to tie the set at 22-22 before back-to-back kills from TCU gave the Horned Frogs the 25-23 win.
Anderson hit for a .750 clip with nine kills to guide the Mountaineers in set two. A pair of Anderson kills gave West Virginia the 10-7 lead before the Mountaineers pushed it to 13-8 on a kill by Shreve, forcing a TCU timeout. Anderson tallied three kills with Attea adding another to give WVU the 22-17 advantage and forcing TCU to burn another timeout. Wells and Anderson each put one through the pins to cap the set as WVU took a 25-20 win to tie the match 1-1.
Shreve recorded a pair of block assists and Anderson hit .440 with eight more kills to lead Mountaineers in set three. TCU took a 4-1 lead before WVU took three of four points in taking an 8-7 lead on a kill from Anderson. Sample scored on consecutive service aces before a block by Attea and Shreve put West Virginia in front 12-8 and forced TCU into a timeout. Three straight errors from the Mountaineers allowed TCU to tie the set 12-12, before more miscues gave the Horned Frogs a 15-13 lead. A pair of kills each from Wells and Anderson tied the stanza at 18-18. The Mountaineers then rattled our four straight points to take the set, 25-20, on a kill by Sackett as they grabbed a 2-1 lead in the match.
Hitting .278 with 16 kills, West Virginia couldn’t maintain the momentum as they fell in set four. A solid start gave the Mountaineers a 7-4 lead on a block from Wells and Attea before they pushed out to a 17-13 advantage on a kill by Attea. TCU scored three in a row to cut the deficit to one at 19-18, then tied the set 22-22 on back-to-back kills. Anderson put down a kill to give WVU a 23-22 lead, but the Horned Frogs took three straight points in earning the 25-23 win to tie the match 2-2.
In addition to hitting for a .464 clip as a team with 10 kills, the Mountaineers committed just one error in the tiebreaking set. Gotterba served up four straight points as WVU grabbed a 5-1 advantage. Attea was good for a pair of kills, with Wells also adding in a pair that forced TCU into a timeout with the Mountaineers leading 11-9. The Horned Frogs cut the WVU lead to one, but the Mountaineers rattled off three straight kills to take the set 15-11 and win the match 3-2.
West Virginia will wrap up a three-match home stand on Wednesday when they host Kansas in Big 12 action. The match is slated for 6:30 p.m. at the WVU Coliseum.
.@WVUVolleyball is playing tough today #takingnames
— Nicole Curtin (@NCurtinWVUNews) October 11, 2014
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