Davenport Moves to Seventh All-Time In Sweep of UTSA

Friday, October 25

Philadelphia, Pa.

6 P.M.

Temple University

11-12,3-6AAC

UTSA

7-15,1-8AAC

UTSA

Temple

Davenport Moves to Seventh All-Time In Sweep of UTSA

10.25.24 | Women's Volleyball

Box Score

PHILADELPHIA – Temple graduate student Taylor moved to seventh all-time in program history with 1,452 kills as she connected a match-high 15 kills on Friday night against UTSA. The Owls improved to 3-6 in the American Athletic Conference and 11-12 overall with a 25-15, 25-22, 25-20 victory over the Roadrunners who now drop to 1-8 in the conference and a 7-15 overall.

The win now puts the Cherry and White one game back of Florida Atlantic and Tulane for a tie for eighth place in the AAC.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Davenport reached her 15 kills with a career-best .565 hitting percentage and now is 10 shy of sixth all-time Katie Harrigan's ('94) 1,462 kills.
Sophomore setter Lexi Yoza guided the Owls to a season-high hitting percentage .407 on her way to a match-high 46 assists.
Sydney Jones added 13 kills while hitting .303
Alyssa Finister adds a career-high 11 kills while hitting .611.
In the loss, UTSA hit .272 as a team, led by Caroline Trevino and Caroline Durgens with seven kills apiece. Faye Wilbricht hit a team-high .571.

SET 1 (TEM 25, UTSA 15)

Other than four tie scores, the Owls led throughout the first set.
Davenport and Jones had five kills apiece for the Owls with each player hitting over .400.
Yoza had 14 of 46 assists in set one.
The Owls held the Roadrunners to a .143 hitting percentage in the set, led by senior Chelci Banks' three blocks.

SET 2 (TEM 25, UTSA 22)

UTSA built its largest lead in the second set of five points (15-10), with the help of Isabella Arroyave's three kills and Mia Soerensen's two along with Caroline Krueger's service aces.
After the media timeout, the Owls scored seven straight points, including a string of six kills to take the lead 17-15. Jones added three with Finister pitching in with two.
TU never trailed but did allow the Roadrunners to tie the score at 18, but Davenport helped secure the set win with three kills of the Owls final seven points.
The Columbia, S.C. native Davenport had a set-high six kills with teammates Christiana Greene, Jones, and Finister adding four apiece.

SET 3 (TEM 25, UTSA 20)

The third set featured seven ties and two lead changes.
With the score 3-2 in favor of the Roadrunners, the Owls scored seven of the next eight points with four Temple players recording a kill to force a timeout by the visitors.
UTSA continued to battle at the net, tying the score at 13-13, forcing Temple into four errors.
TU pulled away for the win with Banks and Jones putting down two kills apiece in their team's final 10 points.

TEMPLE LEADERS
Kills: Taylor Davenport – 15
Assists: Lexi Yoza – 46
Digs: Olivia Hummel – 7
Blocks: Chelci Banks – 3

UP NEXT
The Owls will remain at home to face off with their namesake on Sunday at 1 p.m. with Rice visiting McGonigle Hall. The match will be available on ESPN+.

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