Volleyball Begins Road Swing at ACU Tuesday

Tuesday, August 28

Abilene, TX

6 PM

Texas Tech Athletics

Abilene Christian

Volleyball Begins Road Swing at ACU Tuesday

August 27, 2018 | Women's Volleyball

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Tech will play its next 12 matches away from Lubbock.

By: Ty Parker, Texas Tech Athletics Communications

LUBBOCK, Texas – Fresh off a 3-0 showing on opening weekend, Texas Tech volleyball hits the road for 12 matches over the next three weeks, leading off with a trip to Abilene on Tuesday, Aug. 28, to take on Abilene Christian at 6 p.m., inside Moody Coliseum.

The match will be live streamed through ACUSports.com and live stats will be available. Be sure to follow @TexasTechVB on Twitter and Instagram for live updates.

The Red Raiders, in their third season under head coach Tony Graystone, captured the Red Raider Classic championship last week, sweeping Northwestern State and North Dakota on opening day before clawing back from an 0-2 hole to defeat Rice 3-2 on Saturday. Senior Missy Owens was named the tournament MVP, while fellow senior Katy Keenan and redshirt freshman Andrea Janss were named to the all-tournament team.

ACU enters Tuesday's match following a 2-2 performance at the Georgia Tech Hyatt Regency Invitational. The Wildcats topped Georgetown in four sets and Winthrop in five before falling to Georgia Tech and Idaho State to round out the event.

Nine-of-ten Red Raider newcomers made their debut last weekend. Janss, was joined in the starting lineup of the opener by freshman middle Jessica Langridge and outside/right side Brooke Kanas. Defensive specialist Katy Northcut was also involved heavily in the rotation and tallied a critical ace in the fifth set against Rice.

Texas Tech displayed an improved block last weekend, including 15 team total blocks against the Owls to mark the best blocking match for Tech in the Graystone era. The Red Raiders limited opponents to .135 hitting on the weekend, nearly doubling that with their own clip of .268.

This will mark the 34^th overall meeting between the two teams. Tech leads the all-time series 31-2 and has won 27 of the last 28 matches with the lone hiccup coming in Tech's last trip to Abilene, a four-set loss in 2013. Graystone holds a 4-0 mark against the Wildcats between his time at Tech and at Texas A&M – Corpus Christi.

UP NEXT
Following Tuesday's match, the Red Raiders will journey to Irvine, Calif., this weekend for the UCI/Adidas Invitational. Tech opens the event Friday, Aug. 31, at 12:30 p.m. with a rematch against Georgia, who the Red Raiders fell to last season in Athens. Tech also takes on CSU Bakersfield on Friday and UC Irvine on Saturday. Tech will then make the drive to Long Beach State to face Owens's former team on Monday at 11 a.m.