Box Score LOS ANGELES -- The Washington State volleyball team (12-2 overall, 2-0 Pac-12) knocked off No. 9 UCLA (10-2, 1-1) Friday night in Pauley Pavilion, the second defeat of a Top 10 team by the Cougars in a three-day span. WSU, also receiving votes in the AVCA Coaches Top 25 poll, defeated UCLA 3-2 with set scores of 25-22, 27-25, 23-25, 21-25 and 18-16.
 
WSU upset No. 4 Washington 3-1 Wednesday night in Seattle. WSU's last win over UCLA was in 2002, a 3-2 win in Pullman. The last time WSU won at UCLA was a 3-1 win in 1997 when both Head Coach Jen (Stinson) Greeny and assistant coach Shannon (Wyckoff) Hunt were starters.
 
"I'm really, really proud of this team, especially winning on the road," Cougar Head Coach Jen Greeny said. "We've had some great wins during our time with this program against ranked teams but not many of them on the road. Proud of the way we fought through to get it done in five. It is tough when you drop such a close set like we did in the third set, and we kept getting down early, but this team is resilient. Like we've seen in the past, we tend to find our way back, get the momentum back. Really proud that we pushed through the middle of the fifth set. Always fun to be ahead at the bench switch and we were ahead 8-7 and carried the momentum from there."
 
Kyra Holt led WSU with 18 kills, adding seven digs and one ace. Taylor Mims had 13 kills, hitting .321, and had eight digs and six blocks. Casey Schoenlein contributed 11 kills with no errors in 18 attacks for a .611 hitting percentage, and had five blocks. Claire Martin led the match with nine blocks and McKenna Woodford added seven blocks. Setters Nicole Rigoni and Haley MacDonald had double-double nights with Rigoni's 26 assists and 11 digs while MacDonald added 25 assists and 10 digs. Alexis Dirige had 19 digs.
 
UCLA's leaders were Claire Felix with 16 kills (.364), Reily Buechler with 15 kills, Torrey Van Winden and Jennie Frager with 14 kills each and Jordan Anderson with 11 kills. Ryann Chandler and Kylie Miller combined for 67 assists and Taylor Formico led the match with 25 digs. Frager was the Bruins' blocks leader with five.
 
WSU, third in the country in team blocks coming into the week, dominated UCLA in team blocks, 15 to six. The Bruins won the kills battle 79 to 62 and digs category 81 to 71, but WSU hit .222 on the night and held the home team to a .190 hitting percentage.
 
The last time WSU opened the Pac-10/12 Conference season with back-to-back wins was in 2003 with Cindy Fredrick as head coach and Jen Greeny as an assistant coach led the Cougars to wins over No. 16 Arizona (3-1) and Arizona State (3-0) in Pullman. The last time WSU won back-to-back conference road matches was in 2002 with 3-0 victories at Oregon and Oregon State.
 
"Tonight's match was another huge win for our team," Mims said after the match. "We were able to compete with poise and composure against a really great UCLA team. In the fifth set I was telling myself to stay aggressive regardless the score. I'm excited to get back to Pullman and play in Bohler next weekend. Go Cougs!"
 
WSU is home in Bohler Gym next week to take on No. 11 Stanford (8-2 overall, 2-0 Pac-12) Friday night at 7 p.m. and California (6-6, 0-2) Sunday at 11 a.m.