Oct. 24, 2008
WACO, Texas -
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BAYLOR VOLLEYBALL STAYS AT HOME AGAINST NO. 13 KANSAS STATE The Baylor volleyball team stays at home for its second straight home match as the Bears play host to No. 13 Kansas State on Saturday night at 7 p.m. in the Ferrell Center. The Bears are coming off a 3-0 sweep of Kansas on Wednesday night. The win was the second in a row for Baylor, who knocked off Texas A&M last Friday 3-1 in College Station. Katie Sanders leads Baylor with 244 kills this season, while four other Bears have topped 100 kills on the season. Taylor Barnes has collected 714 assists and 27 service aces. Anna Breyfogle leads the nation with 1.63 blocks per set, while freshman Allison King has recorded 278 digs this season and holds a 15-match streak with 10 or more digs. Kansas State enters the match with a No. 13 national ranking. The Wildcats fell at Iowa State 3-2 on Wednesday night after holding a 2-1 set advantage. The loss snapped a thrtee-match winning streak for Kansas State who downed Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas Tech over the last two weeks. Rita Liliom leads the way for Kansas State with 312 kills, while Soriana Pacheco has recorded 460 assists. Jenny Jantsch has tallied 22 service aces, while Lauren Mathewson has 304 digs. The match, scheduled to begin at 7 p.m., will have GameTracker and live video and audio webcasts online at BaylorBears.com
LAST TIME AGAINST KANSAS STATE Rita Liliom tallied 18 kills and Natalya Korobkova added 11 kills on .357 hitting as No. 17 Kansas State held on to defeat Baylor 3-1 (25-21, 19-25, 25-21, 25-20) at Ahearn Field House. The loss snapped Baylor's three-match winning streak. The Bears won its first three conference matches for the first time in program history. Breyfogle led the way for Baylor with 15 kills on .387 hitting. She also added a match-high six total blocks including one solo. Byrd tallied a season-high 11 kills on .476 hitting, while Sanders added 10 kills for the Bears. Barnes collected 42 set assists and had a service ace for Baylor. Three freshmen reached double-digit digs led by Allison King with 13. Brittany Ridenour tallied 11, while Jordan Rice added 10 digs.
LAST TIME OUT The Baylor volleyball team placed four players in double-digit kills and the Bears hit a season-high .427 to sweep Kansas 3-0 (25-17, 25-18, 27-25) on Wednesday night at the Ferrell Center. The Bears connected on 59 kills with only 12 hitting errors on 110 total attempts. The .427 hitting percentage ranks as the eighth-best mark in Baylor history, and the best since Baylor hit .441 in a three-game sweep of Tennessee State during the 2006 season. The hitting percentage is the highest ever against a Big 12 Conference opponent. Baylor improves to 14-6 overall, 6-4 in the Big 12 Conference. At the halfway point of the conference schedule, Baylor matches its best conference win total in the Jim Barnes Era. The Bears finished the 2005, 2006 and 2007 seasons with six conference wins. In addition, the Bears tallied 21 kills in the third set, the most kills in a single set this season. Baylor connected on 19 kills in the first and second sets, matching its previous season-best of 19 kills in the third set against Oklahoma. Ashlie Christenson led the way for Baylor with 14 kills on .357 hitting, while Katie Sanders added 13 kills on a career-high .524 hitting. Anna Breyfogle tallied 11 kills on .375 hitting, while Ashley Byrd recorded 10 kills on a career-high .600 hitting. Taylor Barnes recorded 47 set assists, her third-best total of the season and her highest mark in a three-set match. Allison King recorded a match-high 14 digs to reach double-digits for the 15th-straight match.
