No. 14 VB Takes Match over Texas Tech in Four Sets

WACO, Texas – No. 14-ranked Baylor received 3-1 over Texas Tech in the Ferrell Center on Wednesday evening to enhance to 10-1 in Waco this season. BU received 25-20, 23-25, 27-25, 25-19 over TTU.
 
The Bears (16-4, 5-2 Big 12 Conference) outplayed the Red Raiders (14-6, 3-4), although the workforce from Lubbock did pressure a fourth set with their second set win. 
 
Baylor had three gamers with double-digit kills and three with double-digit digs.
 
THE RUNDOWN
Set 1
BU began behind at 2-0 however Lauren Harrison began the Bears’ scoring with a kill, and an assault error following from TTU tied it up. Keeping the tempo with one another till 4-4, Elise McGhee and Riley Simpson entered the match and made a right away influence. Simpson served up an ace to make it 5-4, then McGhee made it 7-5 with back-to-back kills. The McGhee sisters acquired the block on the subsequent play to additional the lead. Averi Carlson threw down a dump at 9-6, then Allie Sczech and Alexis Dacosta every acquired kills to maintain the momentum going at 11-7. The media timeout got here simply after Mallory Talbert and Sophia Keene every tallied a kill, 15-9. TTU acquired a block out of the pause, and back-to-back assault errors from the Red Raiders made them name for an additional at 20-13. The McGhee sisters acquired one other block out of it, then Kara acquired a kill at 22-15. Sczech acquired two kills to push it to set level, with Harrison delivering the ultimate blow at 25-20.
 
Set 2
Texas Tech acquired the primary level of the set as soon as once more, however Sczech adopted it up for BU’s first level straight away. Talbert and Sczech tied it up at 3-3 with a block, then Talbert acquired the kill at 5-3. TTU went on a run, however Talbert ended it to place the Bears again inside one at 8-7. Elise McGhee tied it once more at 9-9, then Harrison gave the Bears the lead once more. Kara McGhee and Talbert acquired kills to make it 14-12, adopted by a Lauren Briseño ace to move into media timeout. Out of it, Tech acquired a kill, adopted by one from Sczech, however TTU served up an ace of their very own, Bears nonetheless in the lead at 16-15. Talbert acquired a kill, however then the Red Raiders went on a three-point run and BU known as time. Tech known as time after Baylor went again up at 20-19 due to Talbert and Kara McGhee kills in addition to a Talbert ace. Another BU timeout, then one other Texas Tech timeout and BU is up 23-22. Texas Tech took three-straight factors to complete the set on prime, 25-23.
 
Set 3
The third set began in Baylor’s favor for the primary time on the evening with a nasty set from TTU, however Tech acquired a block simply after. Harrison had a kill at 5-3, however then it was tied on the 5^th by 9^th factors. Lauren Harrison acquired a kill at 12-12, however the Bears fell behind simply after. At the media timeout, BU was down 15-13. Back-to-back blocks from TTU introduced in Elise McGhee, who acquired a kill simply after, then one from her sister, now solely down two, 18-16. Both groups preventing, it tied at 19-19 due to Sczech, then BU took the lead beneath Harrison, Tech calling time. Back-to-back assault errors had them put in for an additional pause simply after. Sczech and Harrison continued the valiant effort, however the Red Raiders caught up at 24-24 behind Reagan Cooper. Harrison pushed the Bears forward, then once more at 26-25, however Elise McGhee ended the set at 27-25 with a kill.
 
Set 4
Two units received and one to go, the fourth set began with a giant block from Sczech and Kara McGhee for the Bears. McGhee made it 4-0 with a kill, and a block from Sczech and Talbert known as for a Texas Tech timeout at 7-1. Dominant from the start, it continued with Harrison making it 8-1, then 9-2. Talbert and Elise McGhee acquired kills to additional the lead at 11-5, with one other kill from McGhee to make it 12-5. Out of a timeout was a TTU assault error, then one other Kara McGhee/Sczech block. Moving proper alongside, Harrison acquired a kill at 16-12, then Sophia Keene served up an ace, adopted by a Talbert kill. Tech known as time, then made a closing push. The Red Raiders fought their option to 19 factors in the set, however Baylor completed off a Sczech kill at 25-19 to win the set and match.
 
HIGHLIGHTS

• Three Bears had double-digit digs (Harrison, E. McGhee, Talbert) and three with double-digit digs (Briseño, Carlson, Keene)
• BU improved to 10-1 in the Ferrell Center this season with the win
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• Allie Sczech and Kara McGhee every completed with 5 blocks in opposition to the Red Raiders

 
STAT OF THE MATCH
Mallory Talbert had 13 kills on 21 makes an attempt with solely two errors to complete the match with a hitting share of .524.
 
QUOTABLE
Head Coach Ryan McGuyre
“Always great to get a win. Everyone in our conference is so, so, so good. That’s an extremely well-coached team, a 14-win team on the season. To be one of their few losses is good. Again, a lot of credit to Tech for fighting with us. They were missing a setter, I don’t know why, so for a few of their rows they were doing some unique things that we definitely didn’t practice against. But, it took us a while to figure those things out and be good. That final set, I thought we started out strong with some great serves, some good blocks. Mallory had a quiet night of hitting .500, 13 kills. Kara’s still blocking for us well. Thought we probably should have defended the blocks better tonight. But, scrapped by to win a fun, tight third set. Sometimes you got to win ugly. Third set was a little ugly, and then we looked cleaner to finish.”
 
WHAT’S NEXT
The Bears hit the highway and face Kansas State in Manhattan on Saturday, Oct. 22, for a 1 p.m. CT match on ESPN+.

 

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