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Texas Rallies To Defeat Texas Tech, 3-2
October 15, 2001 | Women's Volleyball
Oct. 15, 2001
LUBBOCK, Texas - The Texas Tech volleyball team led 2-0 at the intermission but the Texas Longhorns rallied to defeat the Red Raiders 3-2 (30-27, 30-23, 27-30, 26-30, 8-15) on Monday night at the United Spirit Arena.
With the loss, Texas Tech falls to 11-6 on the season and 4-4 in the Big 12 while Texas improves to 10-6 overall and 5-4 in the league. The loss was Texas Tech's second consecutive at home marking the longest losing streak for the Red Raiders at the United Spirit Arena.
Texas Tech won the first two games of the match behind the superior hitting of sophomore Angela Mooney who was hitting an impressive .516 at the intermission. Texas, however, found a way to control Mooney and the rest of the Red Raiders as Texas won game-three of the match while holding Mooney to just one kill. Texas took game-four after breaking a 10-10 tie with a six-point run to out distance themselves from the Red Raiders winning 30-26.
It was all Texas in the fifth game as Texas jumped out to a quick 11-5 lead and won easily 15-8 to complete the comeback.
Senior Heather Hughes-Justice led Texas Tech with 25 kills while Melissa McGehee paced the Red Raider defense with 21 digs. Senior setter Skydra Orzen earned her 4,000th career assist early in the match and now has 4,059 thanks to a 64-assist night.
Texas Tech will travel to Waco on Wednesday night for a 7 p.m. match with the Baylor Bears at the Ferrell Center.
