Owls' Volleyball Falls in Straight Sets to Tulsa to Begin AAC Play

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Owls' Volleyball Falls in Straight Sets to Tulsa to Begin AAC Play

9.20.23 | Women's Volleyball

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PHILADELPHIA – On Wednesday in McGonigle Hall, the Temple Owls volleyball team started American Athletic Conference play with 19-25, 16-25, 20-25 loss to the Tulsa Golden Hurricane.

The Owls fall 9-3 overall and 0-1 in conference play, while the Golden Hurricane moves to 8-4 overall and 1-0 the AAC.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Tulsa's Kaley Cassaday led all hitters with 18 kills on 37 total attacks, while hitting .486 in the sweep.
Two other Golden Hurricane players; Beth Bayless (11), and Arianna Mongare (10) assisted in the victory with double-digit kills.
Tulsa held Temple to a .222 hitting percentage during the match, and out totaled the Owls by 20 kills in the match, 52-32.
The Cherry and White's Taylor Davenport led the team on the night with nine kills.

SET 1 (TU 19, TUL 25)

With Temple ahead by one point, 8-7, the Golden Hurricane rattled four straight points to take the lead, 11-9. During the run, Beth Bayless had two of her three total kills in the set.
Off of the serve of Arianna Mongare's serve, Tulsa scored five straight points, including one of her two service aces on the night to pull away with the set victory.
Cassaday had eight of her match-high 18 kills in the win.

SET 2 (TU 16, TUL 25)

With the scored tied 6-6, the Golden Hurricane pulled away for the set win with seven straight points. Cassaday added three kills and Mongare pitched in with a pair during that run.
TU's Davenport made it interesting with back-to-back service aces to cut the lead to 23-15.

SET 3 (TU 20, TUL 25)

In the final set, Tulsa out hit Temple .405 to .207, with Mongare, Bayless, and Cassaday having four kills apiece.
The Columbia, S.C. native Davenport led the Owls with four kills on nine total attacks in set three.
Tulsa jumped out to 7-3 advantage, but the Cherry and White clawed back to take its first lead of the set, 10-8, including scoring four straight points with kills from graduate transfer Avery Luoma and Davenport.
The Golden Hurricane extended it lead to four points, 19-15, but yet again Temple put up a fight, closing the lead to 20-19 as graduate transfer Olivia Vance connected on back-to-back kills.
Tulsa scored the last four points of the match to earn its eighth win of the season.

TEMPLE LEADERS
Kills: Taylor Davenport (9)
Assists: Patrycja Zielinska (15)
Aces: Taylor Davenport (3)
Digs: Falanika Danielson (13)
Blocks: Olivia Vance (3)

UP NEXT

Temple returns to AAC play this Saturday and Sunday in Boca Raton, Fla. Saturday's contest begins at 6 p.m. ET and Sunday at 1 p.m. Both matches will be available the FAU all-access network.

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