Volleyball Pulls Off Another Five-Set Win on Sunday; Second Time this Season against Tulane

Sunday, October 30

New Orleans, La.

1 PM ET

Temple University

9-14,3-9AAC

Tulane

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Temple

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Photo by: Maya Burgos

Volleyball Pulls Off Another Five-Set Win on Sunday; Second Time this Season against Tulane

10.30.22 | Women's Volleyball

Box Score 2022_TUVB_Box_Score_Tulane_10.30.22.pdf

Owls Improve to 7-3 in five-set matches this season

NEW ORLEANS, La. – It was the second time in as many matches versus the Tulane Green Wave that the Temple volleyball team came back from a 2-1 deficit to win 3-2 (25-22, 21-25, 25-19, 15-10). On Sunday, redshirt senior Peyton Boyd led the Owls comeback back with a career-defining, 20 kills, 15 digs double-double.

Boyd, a Dumfries, Va. native had 33 attempts in the match with one error, leading to a .575 hitting percentage.

Temple improves to 9-14 overall and 3-9 in the AAC, while Tulane drops to 8-15 and 3-9 in conference play.

HOW IT HAPPENED

To along with Boyd's career day, Taylor Davenport and Jelena Prolic accounted for 31 kills. Davenport had 16 putaways, while Prolic had 15.
Temple's middle blocking tandem of Chelci Banks, Kayla Spells, and Samantha Jo Mikosky also played a big role offensively as they combined for 13 kills. Banks came away with six kills on seven attack attempts with no errors, while amassing an .857 hitting percentage.
As a team, Temple scored on eight service aces in the victory. It's the eighth time this season the Owls tallied eight or more aces in a match.
Cherry and White libero Falanika Danielson anchored the defense with a season-high 26 digs.

Set 1 (Temple 25, Tulane 22)

With the score tied at 8-8, the Owls increased their lead to five points, 18-13, as they got a pair of kills from Prolic and Boyd in that span.
The Green Wave tied the score at 19-19, as they went on a 6-1 run, but it wasn't enough to overtake Temple. Banks came off the bench to seal the set win with a pair kills in her team's final two points.
Temple hit .354 in the first set, led by Prolic and Davenport who accounted for six kills apiece, hitting .357 and .400, respectively.

Set 2 (Tulane 25, Temple 21)

After the Tulane jumped out 6-1 advantage, the Owls chipped away at their opponent lead, and eventually taking a one-point lead, 21-20, with both Boyd and Spells tallied three kills in that run.
Over the final 11 points of the set, Temple was held without a kill, leading to the Green Wave earning the set victory.
Tulane's Melissa Kolurbasi and Kayla Kaiser had five kills apiece and hit above .500 in the set.

Set 3 (Tulane 25, Temple 22)

Tulane controlled the majority of the third set, though the Owls tied the score multiple times and took a brief one-point advantage (8-7).
The Cherry and White held a hitting percentage advantage, .243-.128.
Tulane built a five-point lead, but the serve from Owls' setter Magdalena Rogalska cut the opponent's lead down to one, but that's as close the Owls would get before the Green Wave sealed the set win.

Set 4 (Temple 25, Tulane 19)

The Owls led 10-5, before Tulane scored six unanswered points to take a 11-10 lead off the serve of Amarachi Osuji, including three straight blocks, and a pair from Kolurbasi and Sklyer Bumpers.
Temple rallied to win the set behind the attack of Boyd who had a set-high seven kills on 10 attempts with no errors. Over the final 11 Owl points, Boyd had four kills, while Prolic added three.

Set 5 (Temple 15, Tulane 10)

Temple led wire-to-wire with Boyd and Davenport combining for six kills. Each of the Owls tallied three kills, while Davenport hit .1000 and Boyd hit .750.
With the score 3-1 in favor of Temple, Danielson served three consecutive points, and got a pair of blocks from Mikosky and Spells.

Quotables from Coach Linda Hampton-Keith
On the team's resilience in the comeback – "We are thrilled with today's outcome but more importantly i am so proud of our resilience to come back from being down 2-1. We were able to raise our level of execution and started working well together as a team. I love that this team keeps learning and growing every time we step on the court, said Hampton-Keith. She also added "So proud of our team for pulling off yet another five-set win on the road. Such a team effort against a hot Tulane team who was on a win streak. We had so many contributors in this win, but one particularly shining performance was from Peyton (Boyd) who had 20 kills with only one error in a five-set match. That's just unheard of. "

Temple Statistical leaders:
Kills: Peyton Boyd – 20
Assists: Magdalena Rogalska – 46
Digs: Falanika Danielson -26
Aces: Jelena Prolic – 3
Blocks: Samantha Jo Mikosky - 3

Temple will return to McGonigle Hall next weekend for a pair of matches versus Tulsa and Wichita State. The Owls take on Tulsa on Friday, Nov. 4 at 7 p.m (Pacific Islander Night). and then on Sunday, Nov. 6 against Wichita State at 1 p.m. (Alumni/Letterwinner Day)

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