Box Score LONGVIEW, Texas - The LeTourneau University volleyball team could not shake off the early morning blues, dropping a 25-12, 27-25, 25-14 home match to Howard Payne University in the American Southwest Conference volleyball crossover tournament at Solheim Arena in Longview, Texas on Saturday, September 23rd. 

LETU falls to 4-11 overall and 0-5 in the ASC while HPU improves to 5-10 and 3-3 in conference. 

Howard Payne would get off to a quick start in the first set, going on a 10-2 to open up a 15-5 lead and never look back while holding the LeTourneau to a 0.091 attack percentage in the set. 

Set two would be the closest set of the match as LETU held a lead for a majority of the match and appeared to be on their way to a set victory. HPU would trail 23-21 before tying the match at 23-23 and eventually come out on top of a 27-25 set victory to go up two sets to none. 

In the third set, Howard Payne would look to put the match away after trailing 4-2 early on before going on a 14-2 run to take a 16-6 lead en route to a 25-14 set win to sweep the match. 

Despite the loss, Savanna Stutts was strong at the net for the YellowJackets posting a hitting percentage of .318 with 10 kills and two blocks.  Freshman Hailey Matthews would add eight kills and seven digs.

The YellowJackets will be back in action on Friday, September 29 in Solheim Arena at 7 PM to play host to Belhaven University.