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LeTourneau LETU 10-19, 4-12 ASC
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Winner Texas Dallas UTD 19-8, 13-3 ASC
LeTourneau LETU
10-19, 4-12 ASC
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Texas Dallas UTD
19-8, 13-3 ASC
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Team 1 2 3 F
LeTourneau LETU 11 11 23 (0)
Texas Dallas UTD 25 25 25 (3)

Game Recap: Volleyball | | Contact: Matt Kinney, Sports Information Director, mattkinney@letu.edu

LETU Volleyball Falls In ASC Finale at UT-Dallas

RICHARDSON, Texas - Opening up a four-game season-ending road trip, the LeTourneau University volleyball team would be unable to overcome American Southwest Conference East Division Champion the University of Texas-Dallas in a 3-0 loss in Richardson, Texas on Tuesday, October 24th. 

LETU falls to 10-19 overall and 4-12 in the ASC with loss while the Comets improved to 19-8 overall and 13-3 in conference while earning the right to host next week's ASC Tournament. 

It would appear as though the YellowJackets would come out ready to play early on by matching the host Comets point for point with the first 14 points of the match being traded back and forth. The first set eventually saw UTD open up an 10-8 lead before a kill by freshman Hailey Matthews to pull LeTourneau back within a point, but 13 straight points by the Comets would give Texas-Dallas a commanding 23-9 lead en route to taking the set 25-11. 

Things would go in favor of UT-Dallas early on in the second set as the Comets would score six of the first seven points of the set to open up a 6-1 lead before the YellowJackets managed to fight back to within two at 6-4. The Texas-Dallas lead would balloon out to 15-8 and then even larger to 18-10 as LETU's final point of the set would come on a kill by Lauren Egby-McNeal to make the score 18-11. Another large run by UTD saw the final seven points of the set go to the Comets as the score would finish 25-11 for the second straight set. 

LeTourneau's best set of the match came in the third set as the YellowJackets would hold leads of 3-2 and 4-3 early in the set. Texas-Dallas would come back to hold an 8-6 lead with six of the next eight points before LETU would take their largest lead of the night at 14-10 and force a Comet timeout. The YellowJackets would manage to hold onto their lead until the UTD tied the set at 19-19 in the midst of a 3-0 run to take a 20-19 lead and force a LeTourneau timeout. Following the timeout, LETU would tie the match at 20-20 and reclaim the lead at 21-20 while trading points to see the match tied again at 22-22. UTD managed to end the match on a 4-1 run to win the set 25-23. 

Texas-Dallas would outhit LeTourneau .270-.058 in the match while collecting 42 kills compared to only 22 for LETU. The YellowJackets outblocked the Comets 5-4, but would see the largest stat disparity come at the service line where UTD held an 11-2 advantage. 

Senior Elyse Wright led the YellowJackets in kills with six while Torie Langston had a team-high four blocks in the match. Korissa White had 13 set assists to go along with 11 digs to collect her eighth double-double of the year while Audrey Galindo had 12 digs. 

LeTourneau's final weekend of the 2017 season will get underway on Friday evening at the Centenary College Halloween Tournament with a 6 p.m. match against Milsaps College. 
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