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Winner Lubbock Christian LCU 14-10,8-6 Lone Star
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St. Mary's (TX) SMU-TX 9-15,3-13 Lone Star
Winner
Lubbock Christian LCU
14-10,8-6 Lone Star
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Final
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St. Mary's (TX) SMU-TX
9-15,3-13 Lone Star
Set Scores
Team 1 2 3 4 5 F
Lubbock Christian LCU 25 17 25 23 15 (3)
St. Mary's (TX) SMU-TX 18 25 21 25 7 (2)

Game Recap: Volleyball | | RattlerAthletics.com

Volleyball Drops Battle With LCU

By Heather Kennedy | RattlerAthletics.com

SAN ANTONIO – In a back-and-forth match on Friday night, the St. Mary's Volleyball team landed on the short end against Lubbock Christian, falling in five sets 18-25, 25-17, 21-25, 25-23, 7-15 in a match played on the campus of Incarnate Word.

Throughout the five sets there were a total of 22 ties and 10 lead changes, including nine ties and four lead changes in the fourth set, which the Rattlers (9-15, 3-12 Lone Star Conference) held on to win to knot the match at two sets all. The Lady Chaps (14-10, 8-7 Lone Star) won the final set to hang on and win their fifth-straight match and third-straight in five sets. The Rattlers have now lost five in a row, with two going the distance.

Sophomore Jasmine Sims (Graham, Texas) – who moved from the middle to the left side – led the team with 11 kills, while sophomore Alissa Tolbert (San Antonio) – who saw her first action on the right side – chipped in 10 kills and hit a match-high .529 (10-1-17). Sophomore Julia Deais (San Antonio) narrowly missed the first double-double of her career with nine kills and nine digs and she led the match with a career-high four service aces. Junior Catherine Cruz (San Antonio) led the team with 15 digs, while senior KK Payne (New Braunfels, Texas) added 11.

The Rattlers had more kills (57-to-51), digs (70-to-66) and aces (9-to-8) than the Lady Chaps in the match, but committed 10 more hitting errors for the small difference in the outcome.

HOW IT HAPPENED
The Rattlers leaped out to a 4-1 lead in the opening set with kills by Tolbert and Sims and an ace by Payne, but the Lady Chaps scored the next six for the 7-4 lead. StMU came back to close within one, 10-9, but LCU used another five point run for the 15-9 advantage and they held on for the 25-18 win.

In the second set, LCU pushed out to the 3-1 lead, but the Rattlers tied the score at 3-3. It was also tied at 4 and 5 and StMU scored three straight for the 8-5 lead with kills by Payne and junior Amara Martinez (Houston). A five-point run by the Chaps gave them the 10-8 advantage, but Deais stepped back to the serving line and rattled off an 11-point rally to lift the team to a 19-10 lead and they went on to win 25-17. She had three aces during the stretch.

The third set was tied at 1, 2, 3, 5 and 7 before LCU took a 10-7 advantage on three-straight kills. The Lady Chaps pushed their advantage to seven, 18-11 and 21-14, but the Rattlers fought back to close within two, 23-21. LCU managed the final two points of the set for the 2-1 lead.
Junior setter Lindsey Kaufman (Coral Springs, Florida) started the fourth set with back-to-back aces and set up sophomore Rachel McDonald (Indianapolis, Indiana) to give the Rattlers a 3-0 lead. LCU came back to tie the score at 7-7 and it was tied at 8, 9 and again at every point from 12 through 16. Once again, Deais stepped back to the service line to give the team a lift, rattling off a five-point run for the 21-16 lead and the Rattlers held on for the 25-23 win.

After ties at one and two, LCU scored a pair for the 4-2 lead and they never surrendered it, scoring the final seven points of the match for the 15-7 victory.

INDIVIDUAL & TEAM NOTES
  • Julia Deais recorded a career-high four service aces in the match, almost doubling her season total to nine. She also posted a career-high nine digs, bettering her previous total of seven from earlier this season at DBU (Sept. 20).
  • Rachel McDonald took a career-high 24 swings in the match, one more than she took at Cameron on Oct. 26 and she tied her season-high with four blocks.
  • The .529 hitting percentage by Alissa Tolbert (10-1-17) is a career-best for the sophomore (minimum 10 kills), bettering the .500 (14-1-26) she hit against Texas A&M International on Oct. 11.
  • For the third straight match and the fifth time in the last six matches, the Rattlers had as many or more aces than errors at the service line with nine aces and eight errors. A total of 12 times this year the Gold & Blue have had an even or positive ace-to-error ratio.
  • For the first time since Oct. 19 against DBU, the Rattlers recorded more kills, digs and aces than the opposition.
  • With her final kill of the match, senior KK Payne recorded her 450th kill in a Rattler uniform. Payne is averaging 2.65 kills per set in 2019.
  • Cat Cruz recorded the 500th dig of her career in the match. She has 468 digs with the Gold & Blue and tallied 33 in her freshman season at Seton Hall, giving her 501.
UP NEXT
St. Mary's concludes the 2019 home season against Angelo State at Paul Taylor Fieldhouse, located at 7001 Culebra Road, at 2 p.m. on Saturday.
 
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