Box Score PULLMAN, Wash. -- The No. 13 Washington State volleyball team (15-4 overall, 5-2 Pac-12) lost its first home match of the season, falling to Colorado (11-6, 3-4) in five sets before a Homecoming crowd of 2,026 fans in Bohler Gym. The Buffaloes won with set scores of 25-15, 19-25, 25-19, 19-25, and 15-13.
 
WSU was led by the 17 kills of McKenna Woodford with Kyra Holt adding 13 kills and Taylor Mims another 12 kills. The Cougars dominated the blocking game with 18 team blocks to Colorado's nine. Claire Martin led the match with 10 blocks as Casey Schoenlein and Holt each added six blocks. Woodford and Mims contributed another four blocks each. Haley MacDonald had 24 assists and Nicole Rigoni had a double-double with 17 assists and 11 digs. Alexis Dirige led the Cougs with 12 digs. MacDonald, Holt and Dirige each had a pair of aces but WSU was plagued by nine service errors.
 
Holt now has 1,548 career kills, moving to second place on the WSU all-time list, passing Carrie Couturier's 1,547 kills (1988-91). Holt is now 300 behind the Cougars all-time kills leader, Sarah Silvernail (1993-96).
 
Leaders for Colorado included Gabby Simpson with 17 kills, eight digs and four blocks, Stephanie Shadley with 13 kills and 11 digs, and Alexa Smith with 13 kills and eight digs. Ann Pfefferle led the team with five blocks while Simpson and Naghede Abu had four blocks each.
 
WSU opened with a first set hitting percentage of -.031 and hit .156 for the match as Colorado hit .222.
 
"First of all, Colorado is a great team. I thought they played extremely well," WSU Head Coach Jen Greeny said. "I was a little disappointed in the way we came out, especially in that first set. Our serving and passing wasn't as good as I thought it needed to be, to be able to beat a team as good as Colorado. We need to be more aggressive in those two areas and then offensively as well. We got better as we went along. In the fifth set we just missed some key serves and you certainly can't do that when you are going to 15 points. So we had some great aces, but it was a little bit streaky.
 
"I think we just had really great moments at the end; really aggressive, and moments where we were being a bit tentative. We just can't do that in this conference against tough teams. We just really need to be aggressive more consistently."
 
WSU's Homecoming weekend continues in Pullman and the Cougars host No. 21 Utah (13-5, 4-3) Sunday at Noon on the Pac-12 Network.