Volleyball Wraps Day Two at Penn State Invitational

Saturday, September 1

State College, Pa.

12:00 p.m.

Temple University

1-4

Texas A&M

4-1

Temple

Texas A&M

Photo by: Zamani Feelings

Volleyball Wraps Day Two at Penn State Invitational

9.1.18 | Women's Volleyball

Box Score 1 Box Score 2 Texas A&M Stats (PDF)Indiana Stats (PDF)

PHILADELPHIA — The Temple volleyball team fell to a pair of Power 5 teams, closing the action at the 2018 Penn State Invitational on Saturday. The Owls fell 3-0 to Texas A&M (25-18, 26-24, 25-17) in the first match of the day before dropping a heartbreaker, 3-2, (25-21, 24-26, 25-27, 25-22, 15-9) to Indiana in the nightcap. Temple's season mark stands at 1-5.

Quotable: Head Coach Bakeer Ganesharatnam
> "I don't think we were able to execute as well as we wanted to this morning, so we made some changes for the second match. Some worked, some didn't, but we were able to talk between matches, analyze things, and put the changes in action."
> "We are leaving the tournament on a positive note. Obviously if we won, it would have been better, but we are getting there as a team and we are on the right path. I don't think we made the right decisions in some situations, but just being in those situations will help us in the long run."

Temple vs. Texas A&M
> Junior Dana Westfield again led the Owls, racking up 11 kills with just one error against the Aggies.
> Sophomore Katerina Papazoglou added seven kills with no other Owl tallying more than three in the match.
> Senior Hannah Vandegrift led the Owls with 15 assists and eight digs.

Set One: Texas A&M 25, Temple 18
> Early action was tight against the Aggies, tied as late as 10-10.
> From there, Texas A&M got hot, using a long 12-4 run to go up 22-14, forcing Temple to burn its final timeout.
> After the break, Temple went on a 4-1 run, including a pair of blocks from Deak and Guennewig, but TAMU closed out the 25-18 win.

Set Two: Texas A&M 26, Temple 24
> Temple had control of the second set early, taking a 7-4 lead, before the Aggies rallied to tie things at 10-10.
> The Owls regained the advantage, extending the lead to 18-14 on a Westfield kill.
> Texas A&M rallied once again, going up 24-21, with a 10-3 run.
> Temple tied it at 24-24, but the Aggies closed it out with two-straight points for a 26-24 victory.

Set Three: Texas A&M 25, Temple 17
> TAMU opened the third set on a 6-1 run and led 10-5, before Temple battled back to within one, 10-9.
> The Aggies extended the lead back to five, 21-16, and that's as close as Temple would come, as Texas A&M finished with a 4-1 surge to win 25-17.

Temple vs. Indiana
> Temple dropped an ulta-tight match against the Hoosiers, winning the second and third sets, but dropping tight games in the first and fourth.
> Papazoglou was great on both offense and defense, tallying a double-double of 17 kills and 27 digs, both team highs.
> Senior Irem Asci and Vandegrift also grabbed double-doubles, as Asci tallied 13 kills and 17 digs, and Vandegrift had 23 assists and 11 digs.
> Deak registered 11 kills with a team-best seven blocks, while Guennewig added seven kills and six blocks.
> Freshman Tyler Lindgren finished with a team-best 29 assists and senior Mia Heirakuji had with 21 digs in the marathon match.

Set One: Indiana 25, Temple 21
> Indiana got off to a hot start, rolling to a 9-2 advantage early in play.
> Temple used a 7-2 run to close the gap to 15-13, and was within striking distance at 19-17 late in the frame.
> Indiana closed the door, however, finishing set one, 25-21.

Set Two: Temple 26, Indiana 24
> Indiana was up 3-2, before an extended Temple run put the Owls on top, 8-5.
> Both team surged in the middle of the frame, before Temple scored three unanswered to make it 14-11 Owls.
> Temple continued to hold the momentum, going up 21-16 before Indiana used an 8-3 run to tie it at 24-24.
> The Owls then closed it out with back-to-back Deak kills to take the set, 26-24.

Set Three: Temple 27, Indiana 25
> The Owls had control of the match from the outset, not allowing Indiana a lead in a tight set that featured nine ties.
> Temple's 6-1 lead shrunk to an 11-11 tie, but the Owls scored four-straight to go up, 15-11.
> Leading 18-16, Temple again saw Indiana tie things late, including at 23-23, 24-24, and 25-25.
> Indiana spoiled a pair of Owls' set points before Temple got a huge kill from Deak and an ace from Asci to win it, 27-25.

Set Four: Indiana 25, Temple 22
> Temple had the edge early in the fourth, before an 8-0 Indiana run puts them up 13-9.
> Temple battled back with a 6-0 run to go up 17-15, but Indiana again surged ahead, 20-17.
> The Owls tied things at 21-21 and 22-22, but the Hoosiers closed it out, 25-22, to send the match to a fifth set.

Set Five: Indiana 15, Temple 9
> Indiana had the momentum from the start, going up 4-1, before Temple cut it to 6-5 after Asci converted at the end of a long rally.
> Indiana scored two of the next three to go up 8-6 at the changeover.
> From there, the Hoosiers took over, closing out the set with a 7-3 run, winning the match, 3-2.

Up Next
> Temple will participate in the Villanova Invitational next weekend.
> The Owls will play High Point on Friday and Utah on Saturday, both at Villanova, before playing the Wildcats at home on Sunday.