DENTON, Texas (Sept. 23, 2016) – Texas Woman's University hosts Texas A&M-Kingsville in its Lone Star Conference home debut Saturday at 1 p.m. followed by a free youth clinic.
TEXAS WOMAN'S (3-8, 0-3 LSC) vs. TEXAS A&M-KINGSVILLE (10-3, 2-1 LSC)
Friday, Sept. 23 at 1 p.m.
Kitty Magee Arena (Denton, Texas)
About the Pioneers
TWU is looking for its first Lone Star Conference win as the Pioneers dropped matches to No. 8 Angelo State, Tarleton State and Texas A&M-Commerce, all of which were on the road. Kitty Magee Arena hopes to sway the fortune towards TWU in their first LSC match at home this season and allow the Pioneers to break a six-game losing streak.
About TAMUK
The Javelinas, picked fifth in the Lone Star Conference preseason poll, opened the season with seven straight wins before losing to No. 3 Wayne State. TAMUK swept its first two LSC opponents Western New Mexico and Eastern New Mexico last week. The Javelinas lead the league in service aces at 2.11 per set while middle blocker Lexi Wick is first in hitting percentage at .412.
History between Texas Woman's and Texas A&M-Kingsville
Throughout the teams' 23-year old history, the Pioneers have won 38 of the 45 meetings and the last three.
Last meeting between Pioneers and Javelinas
KINGSVILLE, Texas (Oct. 30) – The TWU volleyball team captured a straight set victory at Texas A&M-Kingsville, 25-9, 25-21, and 25-20, Friday night. With the win the Pioneers improved to 20-5 on the season and 9-3 in the Lone Star Conference.
Freshman
Makayla Mayfield led the Pioneers with nine kills while senior
Hillary Shaffer had eight kills. Junior
Sara Oxford and sophomore
Briley Cole added seven kills each. Oxford also dominated on defense with 11 digs and nine total blocks. Senior
Joey Redwine posted 28 assists while junior
Mallory Kuechle led the team with 16 digs.
Errors trouble Pioneers in loss to Texas A&M-Commerce
COMMERCE, Texas (Sept. 20, 2016) – Game-highs of 14 kills from
Anna McGee and seven blocks by
Sara Oxford along with a season-best 11 team blocks was not enough by Texas Woman's University to overtake Texas A&M-Commerce Tuesday night at The Field House as the Pioneers dropped a four-set match to the Lions.
Ten service errors delivered by TWU (3-8, 0-3 LSC) did not help the cause, although TAMUC (6-6, 1-2 LSC) struggled with six of their own. The Pioneers struggled offensively in the four set loss (20-25, 25-21, 12-25, 19-25) with an overall hitting percentage of .051 and season-worst 31 attack errors.
The Pioneers were on the heels of the Lions the entire first set and knotted the match at 14-all on a dump by
Mary Kate Hyde. McGee reached high for a tip to keep the Pioneers close by trailing 20-18 and tied the game on points from a TAMUC attack error and kill by Oxford. The service line ultimately did TWU in as the Pioneers were tripped up by an error while the Lions tallied a pair of aces to end the set.
Back-to-back Lion errors, a block by
Briley Cole and McGee, and a McGee kill gave TWU a 14-8 lead midway through set two. Another consecutive three points extended the lead to 19-10, but TAMUC steadily played their way back into contention and pulled to within 22-20 following a bad set. A timeout was called by head coach
Jessica Beener, and McGee and Oxford responded with two kills apiece for a TWU victory.
The Lions came back with a vengeance in set three to accrue a 5-0 lead and grew the margin to 12-2 after three Pioneer attack errors. A tip by McGee ended a furious rally and cut the deficit to 15-8, but TWU was unable to tighten the game the rest of the way.
With set four tied at 11-all, a McGee kill gave the Pioneers their first lead of the set, but another TWU service error quickly took it away. A kill by Cole through a block tied things up again at 14-14, and the Pioneers took another lead on a bad set by TAMUC. The Lions then sent over five kills and an ace that dropped to the middle of the floor as part of a 6-0 run to pull ahead at 21-15 and close out TWU.
