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<a name="_Hlk490052374"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS –</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> Nov. 16, 2022<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">No. 15 Baylor VB Outlasts Iowa State<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Bears win revenge match over Cyclones behind Kara McGhee<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">For more information contact:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> Madelon Allen, 254-252-7168,
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Madelon_Allen@Baylor.edu<span style="color:black">
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">WACO, Texas – </span></strong></span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The No. 15-ranked Baylor volleyball team took the match over Iowa State
on Wednesday night, 3-1, in the Ferrell Center.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The Bears (22-5, 11-3 Big 12 Conference) outlasted the Cyclones (18-10, 9-5 Big 12) in four sets, 25-20, 25-20, 19-25, 26-24.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">BU leads the all-time series with ISU, 31-25, and lead 16-12 when playing in Waco. McGuyre is 12-4 against Iowa State in his career.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Senior Kara McGhee had her 500<sup>th</sup> career block in set one, finishing the match with 504 overall, making her sixth all-time for career blocks
and third in the rally-scoring era for BU. She went up for her 500<sup>th</sup> next to her sister, Elise.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">THE RUNDOWN<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Set 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The Bears started the match off behind a Kara McGhee kill, but Iowa State was ready for BU and answered with two points of their own. Elise McGhee
recorded the next kill for BU to tie it early on at 2-2. Kara McGhee and Lauren Harrison went up for a block to push ahead, 4-2, but ISU once again answered. The teams traded points throughout the rest of the set, with the McGhees getting blocks and kills
from Talbert, Harrison and the McGhee sisters. At the media timeout, Elise had gotten a kill to make it 15-12. Out of it, ISU got the kill but Allie Sczech and Kara followed it up with kills of their own, forcing a Cyclone timeout at 17-13. Alexis Dacosta
served up an ace, then Iowa State’s Maya Duckworth got a kill, followed by two-straight aces from Brooke Stonestreet to prompt a BU timeout, now 18-16. Sczech answered with a kill, then Harrison, and Harrison and Mallory Talbert got a block, now 21-18. ISU
called time again at 22-19. Duckworth had a kill, but Elise McGhee produced a kill, then an attack error from the Cyclones brought it to set point. Setter Averi Carlson served up an ace to end the set, 25-20.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Set 2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">One set win under their belt, BU started set two with a kill from Allie Sczech. The Bears took it to 3-1 early thanks to Harrison getting a kill.
ISU tied it up, but Talbert answered. Iowa State called for a pause when BU went up 7-3 thanks to three-straight attack errors on the Cyclones. Out of it, ISU got a kill and then back-to-back aces from Duckworth. Talbert stopped the run with a kill to make
it 8-6. Iowa State got ahead at 10-8, but BU retook the lead thanks to Kara McGhee and Sczech kills along with a Carlson ace which pushed the Cyclones into the second timeout of the set. Iowa State brought it back within one at 13-12, but Kara McGhee pushed
them back. Sczech got a kill to make it 16-13, and then Harrison progressed play to 18-14. Moving right along, Elise McGhee had BU’s 20<sup>th</sup> point, now 20-15. The McGhees went up for a block for the score to be 22-18, and despite the Cyclones best
efforts to catch up, BU finished the set on a Sczech kill, 25-20.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Set 3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The Bears up 2-0, set three started with an attack error, but was quickly followed up with a Kara McGhee kill. ISU went up by three, but McGhee stopped
it. Harrison made it 5-3 with Iowa State leading with a kill, then 6-4. The Cyclones led for the rest of the set, despite BU coming within reach at multiple points. BU took their first timeout at 10-4, then again at 14-7. The momentum rolling with Iowa State,
Baylor brought in Alicia Andrew at the 18-9 point. After a Harrison and Talbert kill, Andrew went up for a block with Talbert to make it 18-13, pushing Iowa State to call timeout. The rest of the set was the Cyclones, even with blocks from Talbert, Harrison
and the McGhees. Kara McGhee got a kill at 23-19, but ISU finished the set with a Duckworth kill at 25-19.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Set 4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The Bears seemed to have renewed vigor and Harrison came out firing in the fourth with a kill, then again to get the second and third BU points.
ISU put up three points, but the Bears answered with another Harrison kill, now 4-4. The Cyclones challenged the call but it was confirmed. Three-straight points came from Iowa State including an ace. Talbert put a stop to it, but ISU was up 7-5. Talbert served
up an ace, but ISU had two more points. Carlson had a kill at 9-7, then Elise McGhee at 10-9. Sczech brought the Bears within three at 13-11, and back-to back attack errors from the Cyclones tied it up at 13-all before a kill from ISU and an Iowa State block.
The media timeout cut the run at 15-13 with ISU in the lead, and Harrison came out firing with a kill. Tied back up at 16-16, Kara McGhee put the Bears up. Tied up again at 17-17, it was Elise McGhee to tip it back in Baylor’s favor again. Iowa State challenged
an attack error at 20-19, unsuccessfully, and out of it they got two kills. Kara tied it back up at 21-21, and Talbert at 23-22. Iowa State called back-to-back timeouts, the score now at match point, 24-22. Tied back up at 24-24, Talbert was the one to get
BU’s next match point. Talbert and Elise McGhee got the block to finish up the match, 26-24, avenging the road loss.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">STAT OF THE MATCH<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Kara McGhee had seven blocks against the Cyclones, while Elise McGhee was just behind her with six.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">HIGHLIGHTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Kara McGhee had her 500<sup>th</sup> career block in the first set, a block assist with her sister, Elise.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">McGuyre is six wins away from becoming Baylor volleyball’s all-time winningest coach.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">Bears had three with double digit kills (K. McGhee, E. McGhee, L. Harrison) and Lauren Briseńo led the team with double-digit digs.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">BU avenged the road loss to the Cyclones on Sept. 28 with the win.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">QUOTABLE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Kara McGhee on her 500<sup>th</sup> career block<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">“</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">I didn’t know that it was next to Elise, so that is special. I
didn’t really expect it, so that was kind of fun hearing that at the end of the game. It’s always special playing with this team, so it’s special having that with this team, for sure.</span>”<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Head coach Ryan McGuyre<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">“Iowa State, great team, they’ve been battling so well in conference all year. They got a win over Texas, they’re going to do good in the tournament. Coach Christy
(Johnson-Lynch) and that staff always does an amazing, amazing job of preparation and having good game plans. So, for us to win against teams like Iowa State – and there’s not a lot of them that prepared – I feel like we’ve got to be just as prepared and dialed-in.
Obviously loved the battle and the 25-20, 25-20 in those first two sets, executed what we wanted to do. Probably high-error maybe in the first set, but defense, (Lauren) Briseno was doing a great job picking up tips spot-on. I thought our defensive touches
were good, we were able to find Kara (McGhee), I thought a lot, in the first couple of sets. We really need to get both of these middles going even more down the stretch, but good for Mallory (Talbert) to crush the ball to give us match point. And then our
blocking, sometimes it creates separation, and tonight it kind of saved us when we weren’t being beasts and swinging away, we got a couple blocks to side-out, where maybe I wish we would have first-ball killed it a little bit better. But, Elise put the exclamation
point on the block there at the end. I feel like she’s done that in another match, too. The grit for this team is fun. I think Mallory, her best set was there at the end. Same, Allie (Szech) getting some kills in there as well. Gritty fight, glad that we could
win at home. No rest. We’ve got another match coming up.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">WHAT’S NEXT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The Bears head south on I-35 to face top-ranked Texas on Saturday for a 7 p.m. match in Gregory Gym.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#385623">Madelon Allen</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#385623"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">| </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Associate
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