Red Raiders Muscle Past Rice for 10th Straight Win

Wednesday, September 14

Houston, Texas

7:00 PM

Texas Tech Athletics

10-2

Rice

4-7

Texas Tech

Rice

Red Raiders Muscle Past Rice for 10th Straight Win

September 14, 2016 | Women's Volleyball

Box Score

Henriksen, Douglass lead Tech to 3-2 win over Owls to improve to 10-2

HOUSTON – Texas Tech volleyball picked up its 10th consecutive win and fourth road victory of the season, battling past Rice 3-2 Wednesday at Tudor Field House in Houston.

The Red Raiders held leads of 1-0 and 2-1 in the match, but Rice pushed the match to a fifth set where Texas Tech came back from down 13-10 to edge the Owls, 25-20, 17-25, 25-15, 23-25, 18-16.

Four Red Raiders tallied double-digit kills. Junior Hannah Henriksen led all attackers with a career-high 19 kills and senior Lauren Douglass matched a season-high with 17 kills and added five blocks and six digs for the Red Raiders. Freshmen Chandler Atwood and Toni McDougald posted 11 and 10 kills, respectively, while senior Marguerite Grubb accumulated 51 assists and sophomore Reyn Akiu posted 19 digs.

With the win, Texas Tech improves to 10-2 and stops a two-match losing streak against Rice. The owls suffer their third straight loss and fall to 4-7.

"It was a huge win," head coach Tony Graystone said. "Rice is very good and well coached. This was really good to see us continue to make adjustments throughout the match. I'm really proud of the way we composed ourselves down 13-10 in the fifth. We called our last timeout and came back and fought through it. There's not much more you could ask for in a match early on when you're on the road to try to get ready for conference play."

Texas Tech utilized a balanced scoring attack in the opening frame as four Red Raiders had multiple kills in the set. Tech went on an 8-1 run to turn a 4-4 tie into a 12-5 advantage and maintained a steady lead before taking the set 25-20.

The Rice offense put together a strong second set, hitting .333 and earning a 25-17 set win to even the score at 1-1.

The Red Raiders regained their form offensively in the third set behind the arm of junior Hannah Henriksen, who put together four kills early in the frame to lead Tech to a 12-8 lead. Texas Tech out-hit the Owls .484-.250 in the frame en route to a 25-15 second-set win.

In the fourth set, Texas Tech trailed by as many as nine, but rallied with a 5-1 spurt midway through the set and later pulled to within 21-20. The Owls, however, held on to close the set 25-23.

The Red Raiders gained an early 3 -0 lead in the fifth and deciding set, but Rice would come back to take a 13-10 advantage. After a pair of Owl errors, Texas Tech went to Atwood for three straight kills as the two teams battled to a 16-16 deadlock. A kill by Douglass gave Texas Tech its third match point at 17-16 and Texas Tech came away victorious after a Rice misfire.

Texas Tech is back in action at the Roadrunners Roundup Sept. 15-16 in San Antonio, Texas. The Red Raiders and Texas State will square off Thursday at 1 p.m., while the Red Raiders face Wichita State and UTSA Friday at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., respectively. All matches will be played at the Convocation Center with live stats available at GoUTSA.com.