Women's Volleyball: Temple Falls After Tech Rallies in Five Sets

BLACKSBURG, Va. (Sept. 25) - For the fourth time in four matches, the Virginia Tech

volleyball squad had to rally to force a decisive fifth set, this time

coming back from a 2-1 deficit to knock off Temple, 3-2 Saturday night at

Cassell Coliseum. Game scores were 16-14, 7-15, 10-15, 15-12, 15-13. The

Hokies improve to 4-8 overall, 3-1 in the Atlantic 10. Temple falls to 6-4,

1-1 in the A-10.

Tech had to battle back in each game as they fell behind big each time. In

the first game, the Hokies trailed 11-4 and 14-11 before pulling out the

16-14 victory. In the fourth game, they fell behind 6-0 and 9-1 before

going on a 13-0 run to take a 14-9 lead en route to the 15-12 victory. In

the final game, the Hokies had several match points before a kill from

Wright gave the Hokies the match.

Temple was led by Karla Jones, who had 19 kills. Alma Kovaci had 17 kills

and TeresaSchumacher had 65 assists for the Owls.

The fourth consecutive five-set math ties a school record. The 1992 squad

also played four five-setters in a row.

GAME SCORES

1 2 3 4 5

Temple (6-4, 1-1) 14 15 15 12 13

Virginia Tech (4-8, 3-1) 16 7 10 15 15

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