No. 14 Baylor VB Sweeps Pacific to End Ram Classic

Sun Sep 10 13:03:35 CDT 2023

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BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – Sept. 10, 2023

No. 14 Baylor VB Sweeps Pacific to End Ram Classic
Bears finish Colorado State tournament unbeaten

For more information contact: Madelon Allen; 254-252-7168, madelon_allen at baylor.edu<mailto:madelon_allen at baylor.edu>

FORT COLLINS, Colo. – The 14th-ranked Baylor volleyball team swept Pacific in three sets on Sunday morning at Moby Arena, 3-0.

The Bears finished the Ram Volleyball Classic 3-0, sweeping both Colorado State and Pacific and taking Bowling Green to four.

BU improved to 4-3 while the Tigers became 5-4 after the three-set match. BU took the win at 25-12, 25-23, 25-18.

The Bears were led by both Kyndal Stowers and Elise McGhee, each with nine kills. Averi Carlson finished with 41 assists and Alexis Dacosta had two aces while Lauren Briseño had 10 digs.

THE RUNDOWN

Set 1

Alicia Andrew started the Bears off with two kills and Averi Carlson got a dump to go up 7-3. Stowers got hot and got a few kills while Andrew continued to swing and by Pacific’s second timeout, she had four of BU’s 11 kills, with Riley Simpson stepping in off the bench to get two, the Bears up 16-8. Manuela Bibinbe got a kill, and Sczech earned Baylor’s 20th point of the set. Stowers and Sczech teamed up with Simpson to keep pushing toward the finish line of the set, but the set ended on an attack error from the Tigers, 25-12. Baylor held Pacific to a .160 hitting percentage in the first frame.

Set 2

Pacific started the second set with an ace, kill and block to go up 3-0, then 4-2. Needing a spark, Carlson provided it with a kill after a dump attempt. Simpson then kept momentum moving forward, lessening the gap at 9-6. Sczech went back-to-back with kills at the net and Stowers finished it, now 12-10. Three-straight attack errors by the Tigers put BU back up, 13-12, Pacific calling timeout. PAC capitalized on some Baylor errors and went back up, 18-14, the Bears asking for time. Elise McGhee entered the match and made an immediate impact, getting a kill, now down three at 19-16. She also got the kill to make it 21-17 and Alexis Dacosta served up an ace to bring the set within two, 22-20. Down the stretch, Dacosta notched two aces and Stowers had three kills to put BU back ahead. Set point came from Sczech, finishing it at 25-23. Once again, the Bears held the Tigers to a low attack percentage, this time at .105.

Set 3

BU saw Pacific get the first two points and came back thanks to a Pacific service arror and a Bibinbe kill, 2-2. Bibinbe then made it three in a row before McGhee jumped in and put the Bears up two, 6-4. McGhee continued the tear and got three more kills, now 10-7. Sczech, Stowers and Bibinbe each swung for three more before Stowers had an ace, sending the teams into the media timeout, 15-12. McGhee made it 17-14 but two kills and another ace from the Tigers closed the gap and tied it at 17-all. The Bears got a kill from McGhee followed by a block from Sczech & Andrew to move ahead by two points, then capitalized on a service error and another attack error from Pacific, now 21-18, the Tigers calling time. A Bibinbe/Sczech block made it set point, and the Bears finished the sweep on a net violation, 25-18.

HIGHLIGHTS

  *   The Bears finished the Ram Classic 3-0
  *   Second sweep for the Bears on the weekend
  *   BU finished with a .464 attack percentage
  *   Both McGhee and Stowers had 9 kills
  *   It was Harley Kreck’s birthday

QUOTABLE – Head Coach Ryan McGuyre

“I thought we got better match by match without really being able to have practice and everything. Offensively we came out of this making some big steps forward. We had no errors in that last set, finished the match with only seven errors, so we’re looking a lot cleaner. [The] .464 attack percentage is really good. Averi did a good job moving the ball around, Alexis did a good job bringing us back in that second set with some good, aggressive serving. She led us in aces but did a good job of putting the pressure on. Great team game even with no one in double-digits; we were offensively tough to stop today.”

UP NEXT

The Bears return to their home court at the Ferrell Center for a three-match homestand, starting with Washington State on Wednesday, September 13, at 7 p.m. CT.

Fans interested in purchasing tickets for the Baylor Volleyball season can do so by visiting BaylorBears.com/Tickets<https://baylorbears.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetGroupList?groupCode=VB&linkID=baylor&shopperContext=&caller=&appCode=>. All seats are general admission for volleyball in the Ferrell Center.

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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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