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Tech Can't Overcome Horns, Fall 3-0
October 12, 2002 | Women's Volleyball
Oct. 12, 2002
LUBBOCK, Texas - Sophomore Kelly Johnson recorded 18 kills and added six digs as the Texas Tech volleyball team fell to the Texas Longhorns, 3-0, Saturday night before the largest crowd to witness a volleyball match, 2,060, at the United Spirit Arena in Lubbock, Texas.
Tech (7-9, 2-5) got off to an auspicious start when the first serve of the match was an error. The Red Raiders found themselves trailing, 17-15, when a service error by UT's Mia Coats brought Tech to within one. Angela Mooney (Lubbock, Texas) served four consecutive points as her first ace of the night was followed by a Johnson kill, an attack error by LaToyna Coats, and a second ace, giving Tech its first lead of the game, 19-17. But for the second consecutive game, Tech would squander the lead when reaching the 20-point mark first.
Leading 20-18, the Red Raiders could not find the knockout blow as the Horns went on a 5-0 run highlighted by Kathy Hahn and Coats kills and attack errors by Romjue and Johnson. The Red Raiders would manage to tie the score up at 22 and then again at 24 but would never regain a lead at Texas took a 1-0 lead, 30-28.
Texas (14-3, 6-2) would sweat out another late Tech rally in game two. Tech led the game early, 2-1, and would build its lead to as many as five on three different occasions, the last being 12-7. But a 5-0 run by the Longhorns would draw them with in one. With the score knotted at 14, the two teams would battle through a run of nine ties and nine lead changes. But the last lead change would go in favor of the Horns, 23-22, as Texas took a 2-0 lead into the intermission.
Senior Melissa McGehee (Kerrville, Texas) was the only other Tech player to record double-digit kills, 12, as the Red Raiders hit .205 for the match. Libero Jessy Herrera (New Braunfels, Texas) was the lone Tech player with 10 or more digs.
Texas was led by Bethany Howden and Coats who each tallied 11 kills as the Horns hit .281 as a team.
Any hope Tech had of forcing a fourth game was quickly put to rest as Texas scored five of the first six points of game three and lead by as many as 11, 20-9. Texas would go onto sweep the Red Raiders, 30-24.
