Nov. 25, 2008
WACO, Texas -
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BAYLOR VOLLEYBALL TRAVELS TO FACE KANSAS
The Baylor volleyball team hits the road for its final away match of the season as the Bears face Kansas on Wednesday night at 7 p.m. at the Horejsi Family Center. The Bears are coming off a 3-2 come-from-behind win at home against Missouri on Saturday night. The Bears won their second-straight five-set match after twice rallying from one-set deficits to defeat Texas Tech on Wednesday night. Against Missouri, Baylor dropped the first two sets before sweeping the final three sets to claim the win. The Bears rallied from a 2-0 deficit for the first time since 2006 when Baylor rallied from down 2-0 to defeat Missouri at home. Baylor's nine conference wins ties for the second-most league wins in program history. Katie Sanders leads Baylor with 363 kills this season, while five other Bears have topped 100 kills on the season. Taylor Barnes has collected 1,088 assists and a league-high 47 service aces this season. Anna Breyfogle leads the conference with 1.44 blocks per set, but missed six straight matches with a dislocated shoulder. Freshman Allison King has recorded 417 digs this season and has tallied 10 or more digs in 23 of the last 24 matches. Kansas enters the match having lost its last three matches. Last week, the Jayhawks dropped 3-0 decisions to Nebraska and at Texas. Karina Garlington leads the way for Kansas with 377 kills and 29 service aces, while Nicole Tate has tallied 1,009 assists on the season. Melissa Manda has tallied 336 digs on the season, while Natalie Uhart anchors the net defense with 0.83 blocks per set. The match, scheduled to begin at 7 p.m., will feature GameTracker live stats as well as an audio webcast available on www.BaylorBears.com. A subscription-based video webcast is available from Kansas at www.KUAthletics.com.
LAST TIME AGAINST KANSAS
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) 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 improved to 14-6 overall, 6-4 in the Big 12 Conference. At the halfway point of the conference schedule, Baylor matched 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. Breyfogle, who entered the week as the nation's leading blocker, tallied a match-high four blocks for the Bears.
LAST TIME OUT
Baylor rallied from a two-set deficit to defeat Missouri 3-2 (22-25, 19-25, 25-17, 25-23, 15-12) on Saturday night at the Ferrell Center. The match was the second-straight five-set win for Baylor, as the Bears twice rallied from one-set deficits against Texas Tech on Wednesday. After dropping the first two sets, Baylor won three-straight sets for the win. The last time Baylor rallied from a 2-0 deficit was against Missouri at home during the 2006 season. Katie Sanders led the way for the Bears with 18 kills. Anna Breyfogle added 14 kills in her first action since missing six matches with a dislocated shoulder. Ashley Byrd recorded 14 kills on .444 hitting, while Ashlie Christenson tallied 11 kills. Taylor Barnes recorded 62 assists to go along with five kills and two service aces. Libero Allison King led the floor defense with a career-high 29 digs, though she played the final three sets of the match at outside hitter. Sanders tallied 18 digs, while Caitlyn Trice added 16 digs. Christenson tallied 12 digs on the night to record her first career kill-dig double-double. Baylor and Missouri both hit at a .193 clip for the match, but the Bears tallied 73 kills compared to 52 for Missouri. The Bears also scooped up 93 digs to 77 digs for the Tigers.
