Owls Volleyball Blanked by Tulsa

Sunday, September 25

Tulsa, Okla.

2 PM ET

Temple University

6-7,0-2AAC

Tulsa

9-5,2-0AAC

Temple

Tulsa

Photo by: Maya Burgos

Owls Volleyball Blanked by Tulsa

9.25.22 | Women's Volleyball

Box Score Tulsa Box Score 9.25.22.pdf

Temple drops second straight AAC match to open conference play

TULSA, OKLA. – On Sunday the Temple Owls volleyball team dropped its second consecutive match to open the ACC season. The Owls were swept by the Golden Hurricane at the Reynolds Center, 17-25, 14-25, 13-25.

Temple falls to 6-7 overall and 0-2 in conference play. Tulsa improves to 9-5 and 2-0 in conference play.

HOW IT HAPPENED

The Golden Hurricane held the Owls to a .019 hitting percentage in the sweep, while they were able to hit .243 as a team.
Tulsa's Kayley Cassaday led the match with 17 kills, while hitting .455.
Four Golden Hurricane players had eight or more digs, while the team totaled 61.
Taylor Davenport led the Owls with 10 kills on a match-high 42 attempts.
Throughout the three sets, there were six ties and three lead changes.

Set 1 (Tulsa 25, Temple 17)

Tulsa jumped out to an early 5-1 lead before the Owls went on a 4-2 run themselves that cut the Tulsa lead to two (7-5).
The Golden Hurricane got to the media timeout first, as it extended its lead to five points, 15-10, by going on an 8-5 rally. After the one-minute break, the Cherry and White forced three errors, including back-to-back hitting errors from Bailey Rowe. Davenport and freshman Samantha Jo Mikosky recorded a block apiece to pull the Owls within one, 15-14.
After the two teams traded a pair points, Tulsa scored six unanswered points, including nine of the last 11. Cassaday helped win the set for her team, 25-17, by notching four kills in the last 11 points.

Set 2 (Tulsa 25, Temple 14)

With the score tied at 2-2, the Golden Hurricane forced Temple to call timeout, by scoring five straight points with the help of Rowe's three straight kills.
Later in the set with Tulsa leading 12-10, the Golden Hurricane reeled off 11 straight points, forcing five Owls' hitting errors.
Tulsa went on to win the set, 25-14, by hitting .423. Cassaday had seven on her match-high 17 kills in the set.
Temple hit .069 with six errors on 29 attempts, tallying eight kills.

Set 3 (Tulsa 25, Temple 13)

Tulsa scored multiple points seven times on its own sideout on its way to winning set three, 25-13.
Neither squad hit a good percentage in the third set, but the Golden Hurricane were able to hit .154, while keeping the Owls to -.071.

Temple Leaders
Kills: Taylor Davenport (10)
Assists: Patrycja Zielinska (18)
Digs: Falanika Danielson and Jelena Prolic (12)
Blocks: Chelci Banks (3)

Temple will be back in action next weekend, Friday, Sept. 30 at 7 p.m. ET versus Tulane and Oct. 2 versus Houston. Both matches will be available on ESPN+.

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