LONGVIEW, Texas - Playing in front of their home crowd for the first time in 2017, the LeTourneau University volleyball team saw their offensive woes continue in a 25-14, 25-14, 25-10 loss to the University of Texas-Tyler at Solheim Arena in Longview, Texas on Wednesday, September 13th. 

LETU falls 2-7 on the year and 0-1 in the American Southwest Conference while the visiting Patriots improved to 8-1 overall while winning their conference opener. 

All three sets would see the YellowJackets come out strong and keep the pace with UT-Tyler before a run midway through the set in all three sets would allow for UTT to pull away. LETU would utilize their timeouts in each of the sets to try and break the runs by the Patriots, but it would do no good as the lead was too large to overcome. 

"We just have to execute better as we are doing a lot of good things on the back row" said head coach Ashley Tiernan in a post-game interview. Our hitters have to take better care of the ball in our next match."

LeTourneau was led by Elyse Wright with five kills while Korissa White had 13 assists. Sophomore Audrey Galindo recorded two service aces while Liz Williams along with Galindo each had nine digs. The YellowJackets would be limited to a total of just two blocks while committing 22 service errors compared to just 11 for the Patriots. 

LETU will be back in action on Friday when they head to Irving, Texas to take on Johnson and Wales University at 12 p.m. as well as Brooklyn College at 4 p.m. in the University of Dallas Invitational.