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No. 10 VB Takes Down No. 1 Texas
11/6/2021 11:40:00 PM | Volleyball
Bears defeat the previously undefeated Longhorns in Ferrell Center
By Jerry Hill
Baylor Bear Insider
Some players can be blinded by the bright lights of the biggest stage. Yossiana Pressley is at her best when the lights are the brightest.
Bouncing back from an off night in 10th-ranked Baylor's 3-0 loss to No. 1 Texas the day before, the fifth-year senior All-American recorded four of her match-high 24 kills at the end of the fourth set to help the Bears pull out a 3-1 victory before a season-high crowd of 6,003 Saturday night at the Ferrell Center.
The Longhorns (18-1, 9-1), who had lost just four combined sets in their eight previous Big 12 matches, dropped three in falling to the Bears, 25-23, 18-25, 26-24, 32-30.
"This is the atmosphere she's going to flourish," said coach Ryan McGuyre, whose Bears improved to 14-5 overall and 8-2 in the Big 12 in handing the Longhorns their first loss of the season.
"Especially down there at the end, when we really had one, two hitters left on the court, it was no secret where the ball was going. For her to by dynamic enough to execute that is really key."
Running out of subs, Baylor had defensive specialists Emily Van Slate and Lauren Briseño playing on the front row at the end of the fourth set.
"I thought the girls' poise in that was good," McGuyre said. "And if anything, it triggered a belief, like, 'This is fun, so let's figure out a way to do it.'''
After losing the last two sets by two points apiece Friday night, McGuyre said the "theme today was just one more point."
"Over the course of the match, that's your difference in a 32-30, or the 26-24, 25-23 we had (Friday," McGuyre said. "I thought they did a good job just being in the moment."
Breaking away from an 8-8 tie in the first set, Baylor scored 10 of the next 11 points to take a commanding 18-9 lead. The Longhorns staved off six set points with a 5-0 run, closing to within 24-23, before a ball-handling error by Asjia O'Neal handed the Bears the opening set.
Texas dominated the second set from the beginning, jumping out to a 10-2 lead on a Pressley attack error. Hitting .310 in the set, the Longhorns closed it out, 25-18, and squared the match on a kill by Saige Ka'aha'aina-Torres.
Hitting .370 with just two attack errors, Baylor kept the Longhorns at bay through most of the third set and closed it out on Lauren Harrison's fourth kill of the frame. Lauren Harrison and Avery Skinner chipped in with nine kills apiece, while Kara McGhee had eight kills, hit .636 and added a block.
Despite running out of subs and using the two defensive specialists on the front row, the Bears went toe-to-toe with the Longhorns through the first 60 points of the fourth set and were able to close it out on a Pressley kill and an attack error by UT's Skylar Fields.
"I'm proud of those that are just selfless," McGuyre said. "I think as we continue to be more selfless, we can also become more powerful as a team."
Logan Eggleston and Fields had 23 and 16 kills, respectively, 6-4 middle blocker Brionne Butler had eight kills and assisted on three of the Longhorns' 10 blocks.
McGuyre said that both teams made adjustments through the four-set match, "but to have our fans definitely being louder, outcheering the Texas fans that showed up today was great. It was huge. We say it all the time, we love to multiply the joy. Great Baylor Family win tonight with a loud, raucous Baylor Family in the house."
Baylor closes out the regular season with road series at TCU and Oklahoma sandwiched around a two-game home series against Iowa State on Nov. 19-20 at the Ferrell Center.
WACO, Texas – No. 10 Baylor volleyball upset No. 1 Texas on Saturday night in the Ferrell Center, taking the match 3-1.
The Bears (14-5, 8-2) handed the Longhorns (18-1, 9-1) their first loss of the season after going four sets with UT, 25-23, 18-25, 25-20, 32-30. Not only that, but it was the Longhorns' first Big 12 loss since falling to Baylor on Nov. 20, 2019, in Waco.
In front of the largest crowd of the season, BU found their stride. After falling to Texas in the first match on Nov. 5, Baylor learned their lesson, made adjustments, and came back on top.
Yossiana Pressley returned to the limelight as she recorded 24 kills on 53 attempts for a hitting percentage just above .300. She is one step closer to passing former volleyball standout Elisha Polk on the all-time career kills list, needing just 11 after Saturday's performance. Pressley was the only Bear to record double-digit kills in the second match with Texas.
Hannah Sedwick recorded a double-double with 41 assists and 13 digs. Avery Skinner also had 13 digs on the night, while Shanel Bramschreiber and Lauren Briseño each had 10.
After Texas had recorded 12 aces on Friday night in the Ferrell Center, the Bears held their best servers back, the Longhorns recording just four overall. The improvements made the difference.
Head coach Ryan McGuyre is known to say that the better team wins the second night, and this time it was Baylor. BU is now 13-1 on the second night when playing a team on a back-to-back schedule, dating back to the beginning of the 2020 season.
HOW IT HAPPENED
Set One
Just as it was in the first match against Texas, Baylor traded points with the Longhorns early and often. The Bears broke away after they were tied at 8-8, with a UT service error and then back-to-back Hannah Sedwick aces putting them just ahead. BU didn't hold off the gas, pushing all the way to 18-9. The Longhorns added a few points of their own, but Avery Skinner pushed Baylor further with her kills. Texas added points to the board and came just next to Baylor at 24-23, but a ball handling error by a Longhorn sealed the deal at 25-23 in BU's favor. At one point, Yossiana Pressley helped push the Bears on a seven-point run.
Set Two
Texas started off the scoring with three-straight points, and then kept adding to it. The Bears put two points on the board and no more until the Longhorns had 10 of their own. Kills from Lauren Harrison and Skinner helped lessen the UT lead, slowly closing the margin. Texas was up 19-11 when Skinner had another kill, and the Longhorns called timeout. From that point, the Bears caught up further, taking it all the way to 21-18 and forcing another pause from UT. Texas pushed on and won the set 25-18 after a service ace, kill and a Baylor attack error.
Set Three
The Bears came to fight, and fight they did. The third set was once again neck-and-neck, trading points. At 10-10, Emily Van Slate was serving for the Bears and helped facilitate a Kara McGhee kill and attack error on Texas. The Bears pulled ahead 15-13, and once again danced with the Longhorns. Baylor pulled away at 21-18 where UT called timeout. A bad set from Eggleston and then an attack error put BU up 23-19. All it took was two kills from Lauren Harrison to finish the set 25-20.
Set Four
The intensity was cranked all the way up and the Ferrell Center was overflowing with sound and spirit. Neither team was willing to go quietly, either. At 9-9, Yossiana Pressley put the Bears ahead by one at 10-9 with a kill. Then the two teams continued to match each other's points, all the way through. A crucial kill from Harrison then Pressley made it 22-21, but Texas answered right back. Baylor took a timeout when UT was up 23-22, and tensions were high. Skinner recorded a kill, then Eggleston, then Eggleston has an attack error to change the score to 25-all. Another Pressley kill, then another and another from Skinner had the score at 29-28. Yossiana Pressley had the kill to make it 31-30 and all they needed was the attack error from UT to finish it off at 32-30. Toward the end of the set, the Bears had used up all their substitutions, so two defensive specialists in Lauren Briseño and Emily Van Slate were playing front row.
BEAR BITES
QUOTABLE – Head coach Ryan McGuyre
"What a fun, exceptional night. Great crowd, good atmosphere, good fight. Two high level teams. Good that we could finish off the first set, let them catch up a little bit. Unlike last night, it went our way tonight. Every point, every play just kept going back and forth. We ran out of subs at the end. That made it really fun there. Avery (Skinner) made a big dig. Then we got all-American performances out of Yossi and Avery there to finish. Great team effort. We had to scrape and scrap to make a lot of things and a lot of plays happen. I'm proud of this team, I love this team. I felt like last night we weren't discouraged after the loss. We were clear on things we have to do to get better. We still feel our best volleyball is ahead of us. Getting a win like this gives us a taste of postseason. We have to know how hard it is to fight to keep winning matches. We're excited about what this team can do."
To stay up to date throughout the season on all things Baylor volleyball, follow the team on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @BaylorVBall.
Up Next
The Bears hit the road for the second-to-last time of the season to go just north, facing TCU on Nov. 12 and 13 in Schollmaier Arena in Fort Worth.
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Baylor Bear Insider
Some players can be blinded by the bright lights of the biggest stage. Yossiana Pressley is at her best when the lights are the brightest.
Bouncing back from an off night in 10th-ranked Baylor's 3-0 loss to No. 1 Texas the day before, the fifth-year senior All-American recorded four of her match-high 24 kills at the end of the fourth set to help the Bears pull out a 3-1 victory before a season-high crowd of 6,003 Saturday night at the Ferrell Center.
The Longhorns (18-1, 9-1), who had lost just four combined sets in their eight previous Big 12 matches, dropped three in falling to the Bears, 25-23, 18-25, 26-24, 32-30.
"This is the atmosphere she's going to flourish," said coach Ryan McGuyre, whose Bears improved to 14-5 overall and 8-2 in the Big 12 in handing the Longhorns their first loss of the season.
"Especially down there at the end, when we really had one, two hitters left on the court, it was no secret where the ball was going. For her to by dynamic enough to execute that is really key."
Running out of subs, Baylor had defensive specialists Emily Van Slate and Lauren Briseño playing on the front row at the end of the fourth set.
"I thought the girls' poise in that was good," McGuyre said. "And if anything, it triggered a belief, like, 'This is fun, so let's figure out a way to do it.'''
After losing the last two sets by two points apiece Friday night, McGuyre said the "theme today was just one more point."
"Over the course of the match, that's your difference in a 32-30, or the 26-24, 25-23 we had (Friday," McGuyre said. "I thought they did a good job just being in the moment."
Breaking away from an 8-8 tie in the first set, Baylor scored 10 of the next 11 points to take a commanding 18-9 lead. The Longhorns staved off six set points with a 5-0 run, closing to within 24-23, before a ball-handling error by Asjia O'Neal handed the Bears the opening set.
Texas dominated the second set from the beginning, jumping out to a 10-2 lead on a Pressley attack error. Hitting .310 in the set, the Longhorns closed it out, 25-18, and squared the match on a kill by Saige Ka'aha'aina-Torres.
Hitting .370 with just two attack errors, Baylor kept the Longhorns at bay through most of the third set and closed it out on Lauren Harrison's fourth kill of the frame. Lauren Harrison and Avery Skinner chipped in with nine kills apiece, while Kara McGhee had eight kills, hit .636 and added a block.
Despite running out of subs and using the two defensive specialists on the front row, the Bears went toe-to-toe with the Longhorns through the first 60 points of the fourth set and were able to close it out on a Pressley kill and an attack error by UT's Skylar Fields.
"I'm proud of those that are just selfless," McGuyre said. "I think as we continue to be more selfless, we can also become more powerful as a team."
Logan Eggleston and Fields had 23 and 16 kills, respectively, 6-4 middle blocker Brionne Butler had eight kills and assisted on three of the Longhorns' 10 blocks.
McGuyre said that both teams made adjustments through the four-set match, "but to have our fans definitely being louder, outcheering the Texas fans that showed up today was great. It was huge. We say it all the time, we love to multiply the joy. Great Baylor Family win tonight with a loud, raucous Baylor Family in the house."
Baylor closes out the regular season with road series at TCU and Oklahoma sandwiched around a two-game home series against Iowa State on Nov. 19-20 at the Ferrell Center.
WACO, Texas – No. 10 Baylor volleyball upset No. 1 Texas on Saturday night in the Ferrell Center, taking the match 3-1.
The Bears (14-5, 8-2) handed the Longhorns (18-1, 9-1) their first loss of the season after going four sets with UT, 25-23, 18-25, 25-20, 32-30. Not only that, but it was the Longhorns' first Big 12 loss since falling to Baylor on Nov. 20, 2019, in Waco.
In front of the largest crowd of the season, BU found their stride. After falling to Texas in the first match on Nov. 5, Baylor learned their lesson, made adjustments, and came back on top.
Yossiana Pressley returned to the limelight as she recorded 24 kills on 53 attempts for a hitting percentage just above .300. She is one step closer to passing former volleyball standout Elisha Polk on the all-time career kills list, needing just 11 after Saturday's performance. Pressley was the only Bear to record double-digit kills in the second match with Texas.
Hannah Sedwick recorded a double-double with 41 assists and 13 digs. Avery Skinner also had 13 digs on the night, while Shanel Bramschreiber and Lauren Briseño each had 10.
After Texas had recorded 12 aces on Friday night in the Ferrell Center, the Bears held their best servers back, the Longhorns recording just four overall. The improvements made the difference.
Head coach Ryan McGuyre is known to say that the better team wins the second night, and this time it was Baylor. BU is now 13-1 on the second night when playing a team on a back-to-back schedule, dating back to the beginning of the 2020 season.
HOW IT HAPPENED
Set One
Just as it was in the first match against Texas, Baylor traded points with the Longhorns early and often. The Bears broke away after they were tied at 8-8, with a UT service error and then back-to-back Hannah Sedwick aces putting them just ahead. BU didn't hold off the gas, pushing all the way to 18-9. The Longhorns added a few points of their own, but Avery Skinner pushed Baylor further with her kills. Texas added points to the board and came just next to Baylor at 24-23, but a ball handling error by a Longhorn sealed the deal at 25-23 in BU's favor. At one point, Yossiana Pressley helped push the Bears on a seven-point run.
Set Two
Texas started off the scoring with three-straight points, and then kept adding to it. The Bears put two points on the board and no more until the Longhorns had 10 of their own. Kills from Lauren Harrison and Skinner helped lessen the UT lead, slowly closing the margin. Texas was up 19-11 when Skinner had another kill, and the Longhorns called timeout. From that point, the Bears caught up further, taking it all the way to 21-18 and forcing another pause from UT. Texas pushed on and won the set 25-18 after a service ace, kill and a Baylor attack error.
Set Three
The Bears came to fight, and fight they did. The third set was once again neck-and-neck, trading points. At 10-10, Emily Van Slate was serving for the Bears and helped facilitate a Kara McGhee kill and attack error on Texas. The Bears pulled ahead 15-13, and once again danced with the Longhorns. Baylor pulled away at 21-18 where UT called timeout. A bad set from Eggleston and then an attack error put BU up 23-19. All it took was two kills from Lauren Harrison to finish the set 25-20.
Set Four
The intensity was cranked all the way up and the Ferrell Center was overflowing with sound and spirit. Neither team was willing to go quietly, either. At 9-9, Yossiana Pressley put the Bears ahead by one at 10-9 with a kill. Then the two teams continued to match each other's points, all the way through. A crucial kill from Harrison then Pressley made it 22-21, but Texas answered right back. Baylor took a timeout when UT was up 23-22, and tensions were high. Skinner recorded a kill, then Eggleston, then Eggleston has an attack error to change the score to 25-all. Another Pressley kill, then another and another from Skinner had the score at 29-28. Yossiana Pressley had the kill to make it 31-30 and all they needed was the attack error from UT to finish it off at 32-30. Toward the end of the set, the Bears had used up all their substitutions, so two defensive specialists in Lauren Briseño and Emily Van Slate were playing front row.
BEAR BITES
- The win was just the fourth all-time against Texas for the Bears, all four coming in Ferrell.
- It was Texas' first loss of the season, snapping their 18-match winning streak.
- It was the Longhorns' first loss to a Big 12 opponent since Nov. 20, 2019 when they lost to Baylor.
- Baylor is now 12-1 on the second night when playing an opponent back to back.
- BU is 74-32 under Ryan McGuyre in Big 12 matches and 216-394 in conference matches overall.
- The crowd was the largest of the season at 6,003 patrons.
- It was Faith and Family night at the Ferrell Center, were Yossiana Pressley and Hannah Sedwick shared their personal testimonials postgame.
- Pressley is gaining on alumna Elisha Polk's career kills record, needing just 11 more to surpass her at 2,273 kills.
QUOTABLE – Head coach Ryan McGuyre
"What a fun, exceptional night. Great crowd, good atmosphere, good fight. Two high level teams. Good that we could finish off the first set, let them catch up a little bit. Unlike last night, it went our way tonight. Every point, every play just kept going back and forth. We ran out of subs at the end. That made it really fun there. Avery (Skinner) made a big dig. Then we got all-American performances out of Yossi and Avery there to finish. Great team effort. We had to scrape and scrap to make a lot of things and a lot of plays happen. I'm proud of this team, I love this team. I felt like last night we weren't discouraged after the loss. We were clear on things we have to do to get better. We still feel our best volleyball is ahead of us. Getting a win like this gives us a taste of postseason. We have to know how hard it is to fight to keep winning matches. We're excited about what this team can do."
To stay up to date throughout the season on all things Baylor volleyball, follow the team on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @BaylorVBall.
Up Next
The Bears hit the road for the second-to-last time of the season to go just north, facing TCU on Nov. 12 and 13 in Schollmaier Arena in Fort Worth.
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Team Stats
UT
Baylor
Kills
60
57
Errors
12
19
Attempts
136
135
Hitting %
.353
.281
Points
75.5
63
Assists
55
48
Aces
4
4
Blocks
11.5
2
Game Leaders
Kills
24
Aces
0
Blocks
0
Kills
9
Aces
0
Blocks
0
Kills
9
Aces
0
Blocks
2
Kills
8
Aces
0
Blocks
1
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