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

Wed Oct 19 23:37:33 CDT 2022

BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – Oct. 19, 2022

No. 14 Baylor VB Takes Match over Texas Tech in Four Sets
Bears improve to 10-1 in the Ferrell Center this season
For more information contact: Madelon Allen, 254-252-7168, Madelon_Allen at Baylor.edu

WACO, Texas – No. 14-ranked Baylor won 3-1 over Texas Tech in the Ferrell Center on Wednesday night to improve to 10-1 in Waco this season. BU won 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), though the team from Lubbock did force a fourth set with their second set win.

Baylor had three players with double-digit kills and three with double-digit digs.
THE RUNDOWN
Set 1
BU started behind at 2-0 but Lauren Harrison started the Bears’ scoring with a kill, and an attack error following from TTU tied it up. Keeping the pace with each other until 4-4, Elise McGhee and Riley Simpson entered the match and made an immediate impact. Simpson served up an ace to make it 5-4, then McGhee made it 7-5 with back-to-back kills. The McGhee sisters got the block on the next play to further the lead. Averi Carlson threw down a dump at 9-6, then Allie Sczech and Alexis Dacosta each got kills to keep the momentum going at 11-7. The media timeout came just after Mallory Talbert and Sophia Keene each tallied a kill, 15-9. TTU got a block out of the pause, and back-to-back attack errors from the Red Raiders made them call for another at 20-13. The McGhee sisters got another block out of it, then Kara got a kill at 22-15. Sczech got two kills to push it to set point, with Harrison delivering the final blow at 25-20.

Set 2
Texas Tech got the first point of the set once again, but Sczech followed it up for BU’s first point right away. Talbert and Sczech tied it up at 3-3 with a block, then Talbert got the kill at 5-3. TTU went on a run, but Talbert ended it to put the Bears back within one at 8-7. Elise McGhee tied it again at 9-9, then Harrison gave the Bears the lead again. Kara McGhee and Talbert got kills to make it 14-12, followed by a Lauren Briseño ace to head into media timeout. Out of it, Tech got a kill, followed by one from Sczech, but TTU served up an ace of their own, Bears still in the lead at 16-15. Talbert got a kill, but then the Red Raiders went on a three-point run and BU called time. Tech called time after Baylor went back up at 20-19 thanks to Talbert and Kara McGhee kills as well as a Talbert ace. Another BU timeout, then another Texas Tech timeout and BU is up 23-22. Texas Tech took three-straight points to finish the set on top, 25-23.
Set 3
The third set started in Baylor’s favor for the first time on the night with a bad set from TTU, but Tech got a block just after. Harrison had a kill at 5-3, but then it was tied at the 5th through 9th points. Lauren Harrison got a kill at 12-12, but the Bears fell behind just after. At the media timeout, BU was down 15-13. Back-to-back blocks from TTU brought in Elise McGhee, who got a kill just after, then one from her sister, now only down two, 18-16. Both teams fighting, it tied at 19-19 thanks to Sczech, then BU took the lead under Harrison, Tech calling time. Back-to-back attack errors had them put in for another pause just after. Sczech and Harrison continued the valiant effort, but the Red Raiders caught up at 24-24 behind Reagan Cooper. Harrison pushed the Bears ahead, then again at 26-25, but Elise McGhee ended the set at 27-25 with a kill.

Set 4
Two sets won and one to go, the fourth set started with a big block from Sczech and Kara McGhee for the Bears. McGhee made it 4-0 with a kill, and a block from Sczech and Talbert called for a Texas Tech timeout at 7-1. Dominant from the beginning, it continued with Harrison making it 8-1, then 9-2. Talbert and Elise McGhee got kills to further the lead at 11-5, with another kill from McGhee to make it 12-5. Out of a timeout was a TTU attack error, then another Kara McGhee/Sczech block. Moving right along, Harrison got a kill at 16-12, then Sophia Keene served up an ace, followed by a Talbert kill. Tech called time, then made a final push. The Red Raiders fought their way to 19 points in the set, but Baylor finished 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
  *   Allie Sczech and Kara McGhee each finished with five blocks against the Red Raiders
STAT OF THE MATCH
Mallory Talbert had 13 kills on 21 attempts with only two errors to finish the match with a hitting percentage 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 road and face Kansas State in Manhattan on Saturday, Oct. 22, for a 1 p.m. CT match on ESPN+.

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

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