Volleyball Texas vs Texas A&M

[bierce]

Skinner kill weakside off block into the crowd.  18-11.

A&M kill weakside.  19-11.

Wenaas stuffed.  20-11.  Lopoyu is tall.

Cos=Okpalla kill.  21-11.

Wenaas withkill.  21-12.  A&M challenging if net violation earlier.

 

[TarrantCoHorn]

Yikes 

[bierce]

Announcers wondering the wisdom of challenging when up 21-12. 

Challenge succeeds.  22-11. 

This set has been very ugly.  Poor passing and setting leading o few hitting chances.  Most of those missed.

Kahahawai kills one down line.  22-12.  She's back to hitting .000.

Hellmuth blocked again.  She might  be feeling like she should have stayed home.  22-13.

A&M long but touch.  23-13.

Cos-Okpalla kill. 24-13.

Cos-Okpalla tapped into net after long rally.  24-14. 

Cos-Okpalla kill middle.  25-14.  She's killing us.

 

[bierce]

I'm going to shave my head and submit a resume to become a volleyball coach.

[GoHorns1]

A&M takes 2nd set 25-14.

Got as* kick terrible set by Texas

[bierce]

2 minutes ago, bierce said:

I'm going to shave my head and submit a resume to become a volleyball coach.

That would be a big sacrifice, since the picture of me on the wall as part of co-rec runners-up in 1977-78 shows me with a pony tail.

[bierce]

Lednicky hits wide.  1-0 Texas.

Skinner kill. 2-0.

Hellmuth way long.  3-0.

Singletary kills an overpass.  4-0.  Timeout Agroids.

[bierce]

Skinner now hitting .455 for the match.  Rest of team is about .070.

[bierce]

hellmuth off block.  4-1.

Kahahawai hit long.  4-2.

A&M ace by rolling it over the net.  4-3.

Skinner kill. 5-3.  Feed her until they stop her.

Skinner serve error.  5-4.

[bierce]

Kahahawai kill.  Back to hitting .000.  Still leads us in points due to aces and blocks. 6-4.

Lednicky hit outside pole.  7-4.

Lednicky kill. 7-5. 

A&M kill middle.  7-6.

Wenaas kill. 8-6.

 

[bierce]

Lednicky with tap blocked but fell on Texas side.  8-7.

A&M ace.  8 all.

Lednicky off block out of bounds.  She was blocked 3 times, but never hit the floor.

A&m serve error.  9 all.

Lednicky blocked out of bounds, but never cleared nte.  10-9 Teas.

Nya Bunton kills an overpass.  11-9.  Her first career kill.

A&M middle kill. 11-10.

Rutherford with a nuke.  12-10

[bierce]

Lopuyo with offspeed kill.  12-11.

Rutherford with kill. 13-11.

Skinner kill. 14-11.  We're hitting .571 this set.

[bierce]

Accidentally erased last 8 points of play by play.

A&M tied it up at 15, but Skinner kill and Bunton block put us back up 17-15.

akana long on serve. 17-16.

Kahahawai sailed one.  17 all

 

 

 

 

[bierce]

A&M serve just long.  18-17 Texas.

Kahahawai serve into net.  18 all.

Rutherford crushed it cross court to land inside spike line.  19-18 Texasa.

Lednicky kill off block.  19 all

skinner kill with two handed tap of overpass.  20-19.

Rutherford kill of overpass.  21-19.  We're winning this set thanks to A&M passing errors.  Timeout Agroids. 

[bierce]

Rutherford kill. 22-19.  She's nailing them right now and we are on a run on Halter's serve.

A&M dink fell in.  22-20.

hellmuth blocked by Rutherford.  23-20.

Carlson serve error.  23-21.

Wenaas fumbles serve.  23-22.  Timeout Texas.

[bierce]

We're outhitting A&M .367 to .192 this set and we're up just one point. 

Skinner kill weakside down line.  24-22.

Hellmuth kill.  24-23.  She finally got one past blockers.

Long, long point with Lednicky denied multiple times, ending in Lednicky hitting wide.  Set Texas 25-23.

 

 

[GoHorns1]

Texas takes 3rd set 25-23. Texas leads 2-1

[bierce]

A couple of things to mention--

Bunton rotated in as middle blocker instead of Ames that third set.  Ames was kind of getting worked by Cos-Okpalla.  Bunton had her first kill and first two blocks of her career.

Skinner is on a roll.  So is Rutherford.  Kahahawai is struggling a bit as a hitter but is still tied for 2nd in points thanks to aces and blocks.

 

[bierce]

Kahahawai with a great kill strongside.  1-1. 

Hellmuth kill.  Skinner long from back row.  3-1.  A&M

Shutting down play by play tonight.  Hook 'em, ladies. 

 

[bierce]

Rally by Texas from down 18-10 to close to 19-15 with Skinner making several kills.  She is up to 17 kills and hitting .450.  Last 5 Texas points on 4 Skinner kills and a Halter ace. 

[bierce]

Another kill by Skinner.  19-16.  She's carrying us. 

[bierce]

And again.  She has been so-so this season, but boy has she shown up tonight when we most needed her.  19-17.

[bierce]

Lednicky blocked by Singletary/Skinner.  19-18. Awesome run.  A&M challenging whether a net violation.

 

[bierce]

Not net.  Call stands.  19-18 A&M with Texas on a 6-0 run.

Lednicky kill as Halter dig goes into the stands.  20-18.

Lednicky hit wide.  A&M asking for a touch.  20-19.

Hellmuth kill. 21-19.

A&M serve error.  21-20.

Hellmuth kill.  22-20.  she's finally hitting in positive numbers.

Wenaas blocked.  23-20.

bunton kill.  23-21.  Thank you A&M overpass.

Kahahawai served long.  24-21.

Lednicky kill.  25-21 Agroids.  Sets 2-2.

Really turning play by play off now.  Opening a polling location tomorrow.

[GoHorns1]

A&M takes 3rd set 25-12. Tied 2-2