No. 17 Baylor VB Grabs Fourth-Straight Sweep, Defeats K-State

Wed Nov 13 20:56:21 CST 2024

BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – Nov. 13, 2024
No. 17 Baylor VB Grabs Fourth-Straight Sweep, Defeats K-State
Bears collect eighth-consecutive win
For more information contact: Madelon Allen; 254-252-7168, madelon_allen at baylor.edu

MANHATTAN, Kan. – The 17th-ranked Baylor volleyball team took the match from Kansas State in three sets on Wednesday night at Morgan Family Arena.

The Bears (18-6, 10-3) swept the Wildcats (9-13, 7-6), winning 25-21, 25-22 and 25-18.

It was the eighth-straight win for BU and the fourth sweep in a row.

Leading for the Bears were Elise McGhee with 15 kills, Lauren Briseño with 14 digs and both Jackie Barrett Frazier and Victoria Davis with five blocks.

THE RUNDOWN
Set 1
The Wildcats got the first kill but Jackie Barrett Frazier got BU its first point via a setter dump. A block from Allie Sczech and Alicia Andrew followed, then a kill from Sczech. She then went on a tear, getting points five and six before recording the seventh as well, now 7-6 in BU’s favor. Victoria Davis got in on the action with a kill and it seemed Elise McGhee got her second kill of the match but the point went KSU’s way. McGuyre challenged and the call was overturned to be point Bears. The wildcats went on a three-point run but Baylor quickly ended it with a block from Andrew and Barrett Frazier at 11-9. They teamed up again at 12-10 before McGhee got a kill.  Three Baylor errors became a four-point run for KSU, the Wildcats ahead, 15-13. Out of the media timeout, Andrew had a kill to stop momentum from the other side of the net. Davis brought BU back within one, 16-15. A sharpshooting kill from McGhee made it a run of three for her squad with back-to-back kills and a successful joust from Barrett Frazier, BU back up 20-19. K-State took a timeout at 21-19 after they had an error and scored out of it, but Sczech followed it up with a kill of her own. The set ended on a 3-0 run from BU with Andrew, Sczech and Kendal Murphy finishing it out, 25-21.

Set 2
Sczech started the set with a kill, Murphy following suit for BU to go up 3-1 early. Andrew got a kill of her own and then served an ace. Murphy threw down and then secured the block with Davis, BU up 7-3. Just after, Tehani Ulufatu got an ace of her own. KSU went on a three-point run, stopped by another setter dump from Barrett Frazier and an ace from Lauren Briseño, Baylor up 11-7. McGhee had a kill just before the Wildcats grabbed two points and McGhee scored again. Sczech and Davis got kills to sandwich one from KSU, the score now 16-13, Baylor.  After the Bears went up 19-14 with kills from McGhee and Davis, KSU called another timeout. Davis kept the ball rolling with a kill but then the Wildcats started to catch up, serving an ace and three-straight kills to have BU call timeout up three, 23-20. McGhee had the next kill to make it set point, but two Wildcat kills delayed it. It was Murphy who finished the set with a tip kill, 25-22.

Set 3
Elise McGhee started the third frame with a kill, but two straight errors then went KSU’s way. Sczech had an insane connection with Barrett Frazier for her first kill of the frame, tying it 3-3. They’d get another to tie it at 4-all before Davis threw down to tie it at 5-5. McGhee got back-to-back balls and Barrett Frazier had another setter dump, going straight into an ace, the Bears now up by one point, 9-8. McGhee tied it again at 10, then Andrew and Davis got kills, and Ulufatu put the cherry on top with an ace to go up by two points, 14-12. Murphy had the next ace just two points later, followed by a roofed block from Davis and Barrett Frazier. The power was palpable from the Bears’ side of the court as Davis got another kill to push the Wildcats to a timeout, down 18-14. That didn’t stop the momentum as Davis and McGhee teamed up for another block out of it. Murphy served another ace at 21-14, followed by yet another block, this time from Davis with Barrett Frazier. McGhee brought the Bears one point closer, and the match finished out with an Andrew-Murphy block, 25-18.

HIGHLIGHTS

  *   McGhee finished with 15 kills
  *   Sczech also had double-digit kills with 11
  *   Davis and Barrett Frazier each had five blocks
  *   Murphy and Briseño each had double-digit digs

UP NEXT
The Bears stay in Kansas and face the Jayhawks on Saturday for a noon match time at Horejsi Family Arena in Lawrence, Kansas.

To stay up to date all year long on all things Baylor volleyball, follow the team on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @BaylorVBall.

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Madelon Allen | Associate Director of Athletics Communications
A&T, EQ, VB, BaylorBears.com
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
C: 254-252-7168

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