The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
University of Texas
17-3, 9-1Big 12
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No. 2 Volleyball falls to No. 6 Kansas, 3-2
10.29.2016 | Volleyball
Freshman Micaya White led Texas in kills with 25, hitting .352.
LAWRENCE, Kan. -- No. 2 Texas Volleyball (17-3, 9-1) fell to No. 6 Kansas, 3-2 (25-17, 11-25, 25-27, 25-12, 10-15) on the road for its first loss in Big 12 Conference play this season.
Freshman Micaya White led the Longhorns in kills with 25 for her sixth match this season with 20 or more kills. She had 54 attempts and only six errors for a .352 hitting percentage.
Junior Ebony Nwanebu and senior Paulina Prieto Cerame also finished with double-digit kills, Nwanebu with 15 and Prieto Cerame with 13.
Senior Chloe Collins posted her eighth double-double of the season with 43 assists and 20 digs, while junior Cat McCoy led Texas in digs with 21 and sophomore Morgan Johnson led in blocks with five.
In the first set, Texas pulled out to an early 5-2 lead behind kills from Prieto Cerame, White, Nwanebu and Bedart-Ghani and kept it throughout the set. The Jayhawks pulled within one at 7-8, but the Longhorns had full control over the set and closed it, 25-17.
The second set was a different story, as Kansas took control early, jumping out to an early 6-3 lead and extended it to 12-5 on a 6-2 run. The Jayhawks led by as many as 14 and took the second set, 25-11.
KU picked up where it left off in the third set, jumping out to an early 6-2 lead, but Texas would not let it pull away and back-to-back kills from White tied the score at 8-8. The teams tied again at nine and 10 before the Jayhawks executed a 4-1 run to take a 14-11 lead, maintaining it until the Horns executed a 6-0 run with White behind the service line to take a 21-19 lead. There were five more ties, but the Jayhawks came out on top, 27-25.
Texas answered by winning the first five points of the fourth set and kept the lead throughout the set, leading by as many as 13. White had six kills in the set and the Longhorns evened the match with a 25-12 fourth-set win.
In the fifth set, the Jayhawks jumped out to a 5-2 early lead and did not look back, taking set five, 15- and the match, 3-2.
The Horns will hit the road again to take on TCU in Fort Worth, Texas on Wednesday, Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. The match will be televised live on ESPNU.
