Box Score PULLMAN, Wash. -- The No. 23 Washington State volleyball team (17-9 overall, 7-7 Pac-12) made a valiant mid-match comeback but suffered a 3-2 loss at the hands of No. 20 Oregon (17-6, 10-4) Sunday in Bohler Gym. The Ducks won with set scores of 25-16, 25-20, 21-25, 15-25 and 15-8.
 
WSU's Kyra Holt tallied the 47th double-double of her career with 15 kills and 10 digs and served the 115th ace of her career which is tied for sixth-best all-time. Hailey Bethune had eight kills while Taylor Mims, Ella Lajos and Casey Schoenlein each had seven kills. Julia Cubbedge had a six kills and hit .500 in the four sets she played. Mims and Schoenlein each had five blocks with Lajos adding four blocks. Mims led the match with her career-high four aces. Nicole Rigoni also had a double-double with 17 assists and 10 digs. Haley MacDonald had 24 assists and two aces. Alexis Dirige had two aces and led the team with 16 digs, and Tani Stephens added 11 digs.
 
Oregon's kills leaders were Lindsey Vander Weide with 20, Taylor Agost with 12 and Ronika Stone with 11. Amanda Benson led the match with 17 digs while Brooke Van Sickle had 11 digs. Setters Maggie Scott and August Raskie combined for 56 assists. Kacey Nady led the Ducks with four blocks.
 
Oregon hit .250 for the match and WSU hit .201. The Cougars out-blocked the Ducks 12 to six, but Oregon had the kills lead 65 to 51 and narrowly edged WSU in digs, 59-53. Washington State served a season-high nine aces.
 
"First of all, Oregon is such a fantastic team offensively, that we thought maybe we would get some different people in there so that we could try to match that offensive system. I think it worked for the most part. I thought Ella Lajos did a nice job coming in, and Julia Cubbedge. We ended up putting Casey Schoenlein on the outside and she hit pretty well too," Cougar Head Coach Jen Greeny said. "You never know, I think that's what we need, some other people coming in to shake things up. You definitely can't do it with just a couple people. It has to be a whole team effort."
 
"I just don't think we were being very aggressive," Greeny said. "I think it was just that comfort zone of same old, same old. And that's when we switched the lineup a little more than in the third set and it worked. I just said 'hey, we need to fight.' And I think, especially Kyra Holt, came out more aggressive than she had been in the first two sets, and our right sides also did well."
 
WSU is home in Bohler Gym again next weekend, hosting Arizona State (9-17, 2-12) Friday, Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. and takes on Arizona (16-10, 8-6) Sunday, Nov. 13 at 11 a.m. in a match to be broadcast live on the Pac-12 Network.