Box Score SALT LAKE CITY -- The Washington State volleyball team (19-10 overall, 9-8 Pac-12) fell in five sets to No. 16 Utah (20-8, 11-6) Thursday night at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City. Set scores in the Utes' win were 25-15, 22-25, 25-23, 24-26, and 15-8.
Kyra Holt led WSU with 16 kills and had seven digs and one block. Holt now has 1,705 career kills, second only to All-American Sarah Silvernail's 1,848 (1993-96).
McKenna Woodford added 13 kills, two blocks and two digs.
Casey Schoenlein had nine kills and two blocks.
Taylor Mims led the match with six blocks and had six kills.
Alexis Dirige led the match with 24 digs and
Tani Stephens landed two aces.
Haley MacDonald set up 32 assists and
Nicole Rigoni had 19 assists.
Utah's Ador Anae led the match with 23 kills, hit .348 on the night, and had nine digs. Tawnee Luafalemana and Carly Trueman combined for 29 kills. Three Utes were in double-digit digs with 16 from Brianna Doehrmann, and 10 each from Bailey Choy and Jessie Openshaw. Luafalemana led the team with five blocks. Megan Shughrou and Berkeley Oblad each served a pair of aces.
Utah hit .273 on the night with 68 kills and had 61 digs and 10 blocks. The Cougars hit .157 for the match, had 54 kills, 52 digs and nine blocks. Both teams served six aces.
"Non-consistency once again. Unfortunately we can't seem to get our hitters consistently hitting the ball at good numbers. Last weekend I thought we did a pretty good job of attacking and having better numbers than we did tonight. We couldn't get anything going offensively and definitely that won't help you win," WSU Head Coach
Jen Greeny said. "One point here or there in this league is going to make a huge difference. Credit goes to a great Utah team; they played exceptionally well, especially their outside hitters. I'm disappointing that we couldn't get out blocks going to slow them down. For a team to hit .273 on us after we have done a good job most of the season in limiting our opponent's hitting percentage and that certainly wasn't the case tonight."
In this final road trip of the Pac-12 season, WSU travels to Boulder to play Colorado (13-13, 5-11* pending Nov. 18 vs. No. 8 Washington) Sunday morning at 11 a.m. PT.
