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October 28, 2015 09:04 PM | Volleyball
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Junior Dzeni Hadzisehovic led the offense as the West Virginia University volleyball team dropped a 3-0 match to Big 12 foe Kansas State in set scores of 25-17, 25-20 and 25-22 on Wednesday evening at the WVU Coliseum.
“K-State is a good team,” said coach Reed Sunahara. “They’re well coached. They have some tradition going on there. We played a good team tonight. I thought we did a much better job in the third set, and we just didn’t capitalize on opportunities.”
Hadzisehovic had a match-high 11 kills with a trio of block assists as the Mountaineers (5-16, 0-8) out-blocked the Wildcats 7-4. Sophomore Mia Swanegan notched a career-high six blocks, adding six kills and hitting for a team-best .417 clip.
Sophomore Morgan Montgomery just missed double figures, ending the night with nine kills and a trio of digs. Senior Caleah Wells went for seven kills, hitting .294 with a pair of digs and a block assist while freshman Bridgett Talia contributed a trio of block assists along with a kill. Junior MaTia Hughes, making her first start, tallied a pair of kills on the scoresheet while freshman Abby Brown had three kills and a block.
Junior setter Haley Roe assisted on 33 of WVU’s 41 kills, with Hughes adding a pair of assists as well. Sophomore libero Gianna Gotterba led the floor defense with 18 digs, with Hughes contributing nine as the Mountaineers finished with 41 on the night.
WVU donned pink jerseys for the night as part of the Dig Pink match to raise awareness for breast cancer.
Kansas State hit .306 with 47 kills, hitting .250 or better in all three sets. WVU played its best volleyball of the night in the third set, hitting .227 with 17 kills, but finished the match hitting .179 with 41 kills.
Montgomery and Hadzisehovic kept things close in the first set as the teams battled to an 8-8 tie on a kill by Talia. Montgomery put another through the pins to start a 3-0 Mountaineer run as they took a 13-11 lead on a kill by Hadzisehovic. After Talia and Swanegan teamed for a block to knot the score at 15-15, the Wildcats embarked on an 8-0 run that pushed them ahead, 23-15. Kills by Hadzisehovic and Hughes put points on the board for WVU, but back-to-back kills by K-State gave the Wildcats the 25-17 victory.
The Mountaineers and the Wildcats again played a tight set in the second stanza before a 4-0 run gave K-State a 17-11 lead, forcing WVU into a timeout. Hadzisehovic registered a kill and a KSU attacking error gave West Virginia points after the break, but the Mountaineers couldn’t overcome the deficit. K-State took the set, 25-20, for a 2-0 lead.
WVU came back from a six-point hole in the third set to come within three of K-State at 13-10. A 6-0 run swung the momentum to the Mountaineers as Swanegan and Hadzisehovic teamed on back-to-back blocks to tie the set, then take a 17-16 advantage. K-State struck back with four in row to pull ahead, 20-17, though kills from Wells and Hughes once again knotted the score, 21-21. Wells evened things up again with a kill at 22-22 before K-State tallied three straight to earn the set victory at 25-22, claiming the 3-0 sweep.
The Mountaineers will have the weekend off before heading to Texas for a pair of matches next week. WVU will travel to Austin on Thursday, Nov. 5, for an 8 p.m. E.T. tilt with the No. 2 Texas Longhorns before trekking over to Waco for a Saturday contest at Baylor.
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