VB Edges Out Road Victory over TCU

Wednesday, October 24

Fort Worth, Texas

7:00 p.m. CT

Baylor

TCU

VB Edges Out Road Victory over TCU

10/24/2018 10:49:00 PM | Volleyball

Box Score

Pressley records 30 kills for Bears’ fourth-straight win over the Horned Frogs

THE RUNDOWN
FT. WORTH, Texas – Behind two double-doubles from Yossiana Pressley and Aniah Philo, Baylor volleyball (13-7, 5-4 Big 12) grinded out a five-set victory over TCU (12-8, 4-5 Big 12) Wednesday night inside the Rickel of the University Recreation Center, 25-17, 14-25, 25-15, 24-26, 15-8.

The Bears swept the Horned Frogs for the second consecutive season and improve to 15-7 in the all-time series, including 5-3 record under head coach Ryan McGuyre.

Pressley paced the offense with 30 kills on a .254 efficiency for her third 30-kill match of the season. She added 11 digs for her eighth double-double of the season. Aniah Philo returned into the lineup and posted 11 kills and 15 digs for her ninth double-double of 2018.

Behind the service line, junior Tara Wulf recorded a career-high five service aces to lead all players.

Baylor was firing on all cylinders to open the match and climbed out 10-5 lead with a block from Philo, Shelly Fanning and Nicole Thomas. The offense kept rolling, and a Fanning kill closed out the opening frame, 25-17.

The Horned Frogs fired back in the second set while Baylor struggled offensively. TCU closed it out on a 4-0 run to even up the match, 25-14.

BU bounced back quickly in the third and opened with an 11-3 run to force the TCU timeout. Baylor didn't let up and used two kills from Pressley and Philo to take the frame, 25-15.

The fourth set had 16 tie scores and four lead changes, and Baylor used two straight blocks to tie it up at 19-19. The Bears erased one set point with a Fanning kill, but a TCU block forced a fifth, 26-24.

It was all Bears early in set five after Wulf served up back-to-back aces for the 3-0 lead. Up 8-5 at the changeover, BU never let up and used a kill from Philo to close the match, 15-8.

NOTABLES
• Yossiana Pressley posted her third 30-kill match of the season with 30 putaways on a .254 hitting percentage.
• Yossiana Pressley posted her eighth double-double of the season after adding 11 digs.
• Aniah Philo recorded her ninth double-double of the season with 11 kills and a team-high 15 digs.
• Shelly Fanning posted her 16^th double-digit kill match of the season with 11 kills against TCU.
• Hannah Fluegel led all players with 43 assists.
• Hannah Lockin and Braya Hunt led the Bears with 10 digs.
• Tara Wulf posted a career-high five service aces against the Horned Frogs. She is just the second Bear to record five aces in a match this season.
• Baylor won back-to-back matches in Ft. Worth for the first time since the 2007 and 2009 seasons.
• Baylor swept the regular season series against TCU for the second consecutive season.
• Baylor improved to 15-7 all-time against TCU and 5-3 against the Horned Frogs under head coach Ryan McGuyre.

STAT OF THE MATCH
30 – the kill count from sophomore Yossiana Pressley on the outside.

TOP QUOTE
Head coach Ryan McGuyre
On the win…
"TCU is always a tough place to play, so to come in and get the first set was good. TCU at home kept pushing all the way through. We were able to get some good things out of Yossiana (Pressley) tonight. She was starting to play a lot higher than she has been and made some great plays. Shelly (Fanning) moved around and did some good things. I really like Tara (Wulf's) steadiness. I think the game was won and lost at the service line. To have seven service aces and have them at crucial times, including two in that fifth set was huge. It was a big matchup in adjustments. Both teams had to move the puzzle pieces around. There were also some things we did not do well. We've got to be much better in transition. It kept TCU in the match. We've also got to show up in blocking a little more."

WHAT'S NEXT
The Bears (13-7, 5-4 Big 12) heads home to host Kansas Saturday afternoon at the Ferrell Center. Saturday's noon CT match will air live on FOX Sports Southwest Plus.