Volleyball Falls to ECU on Friday

Friday, October 6

McGonigle Hall

7:00 PM

Temple University

7-6, 3-2AAC

ECU

11-6, 3-2AAC

ECU

Temple

Photo by: Nguyen Ho

Volleyball Falls to ECU on Friday

10.6.17 | Women's Volleyball

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PHILADELPHIA -- The Temple volleyball team rallied for a second-set win, but ultimately fell 3-1 to visiting ECU on Friday. The Pirates took the four-set match, 25-17, 19-25, 25-19, 25-15, to improve to 11-6 overall 3-2 in conference play. Temple falls to 7-6, 3-2 in The American.

KEYS TO THE MATCH
> ECU hit .259 to Temple's .177 to earn the win.
> The Owls only set win came in the second where the cherry and white out-hit ECU .286 to .031.
> ECU also out-blocked (8-3) and out-dug (74-65) Temple to take the win.

QUOTABLE - Head Coach Bakeer Ganesharatnam
> "Our hearts were in the right place tonight and the effort was there, our execution just wasn't the best."
> "ECU did a good job making adjustments after the second set, and we couldn't adjust as well."

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS
> Senior Izzy Rapacz had a double-double with 18 kills and 14 digs.
> Junior Iva Deak tallied 11 kills, hitting .450.
> Senior Janine Simmons tallied five kills with a team-high three blocks.
> Freshmen Katerina Papazoglou (8 kills) and Dana Westfield (7 kills) also aided the offense.
> Papazoglou added 10 digs.
> Senior Kyra Coundourides tallied 39 assists and nine digs.
> Junior Mia Heirakuji had a team-best 16 digs.
> Freshman Averi Salvador added nine digs.

SET ONE: ECU 25, Temple 17
> The Pirates used a .478 attack in the first set to win 25-17.
> ECU opened with a 8-3 lead out of the gate, and never trailed in the set.
> Temple scored four-straight to cut the lead to 15-13.
> ECU answered back with a 6-1 run to push the lead to 21-14.
> Temple got back in it with kills from Simmons and Coundourides to make it 21-7.
> ECU ended the set with four-straight points to win.

SET TWO: Temple 25, ECU 19
> Temple trailed 3-1 before scoring five-straight to make it 5-3.
> After ECU finally got a sideout, Temple went on a 5-1 run to push the lead to 10-5.
> Temple kept its five-point advantage until an ECU surge cut it to 20-18.
> From there, the Owls used a 5-1 run to close out the frame.

SET THREE: ECU 25, Temple 19
> The Pirates again led buzzer-to-buzzer in the set win.
> ECU jumped out to an 11-5 lead early in the action.
> Temple rallied for a 5-1 run to make it 12-10.
> After the teams traded runs to make it 17-15 ECU, the Pirates took over.
> ECU won eight of the final 12 points to go up 3-1 in the match.

SET FOUR: ECU 25, Temple 15
> ECU scored first, but kills from Rapacz, Papazoglou, and Deak gave the Owls a 5-4 lead.
> That proved to be Temple's last lead, as ECU went on a 5-1 run to make it 9-6.
> Temple rallied to cut the lead to 10-9, the Pirates scored four unanswered to make it 14-9.
> Temple answered with three-straight to cut it to 16-13.
> ECU then closed out the frame on a 9-2 run to win the set and match.

UP NEXT:
> Temple hosts Cincinnati at Sunday at 1:00 p.m.
> The Owls will be wearing pink for Breast Cancer Awareness, in coordination with the Sideout Foundation.
> Fans can donate online at: http://www.owlsports.com/digpink