Nov. 3, 2005
Box Score
Las Cruces, N.M. - The University of Nevada(13-10, 7-5 WAC) lost its season high fourth consecutive match falling 3-1 at New Mexico State University(15-5, 8-4 WAC) at the Pan American Center in Las Cruces, N.M. Thursday night. All four of the loses have come in Western Athletic Conference play and leave the Wolf Pack at 8-4 in league play and 13-10 overall. Tonight's 26-30, 30-25, 23-30, and 30-25 setback dropped the Pack into fourth place in the WAC standings. NMSU sits in third place after improving to 8-4 in league play and are 15-5 on the season. The two schools split the two meetings this season.
NMSU scored the first four points of the match but the Pack rallied to tie game one at 5-5. In total the first game was tied 11 times, and there were six lead changes before the Aggies prevailed 30-26. The final tie of the first game came at 23-23 but NMSU outscored the Pack 7-3 down the stretch to take the 1-0 games advantage. NMSU hit .154 in game one and Nevada just .061.
The Aggies again jumped on top early in game two scoring the first five points of the game but the Pack would again rally to tie the score at 17 all. The sixth tie of the game was at 25-25 before Nevada scored five unanswered points behind the serving of Lindsay Holda to take game two 30-25. The Pack victory evened the match at one game apiece heading into the break. Nevada had its best game of the night hitting .361 while NMSU finished with a .282 attack percentage.
Nevada returned to the court and were on fire building a seven point advantage at 9-2 but the home team would not go away knotting the score at 19-19. Turn around was fair play for the Aggies as the rolled of seven unanswered points with Briana Akrie serving to break a 23-23 tie and complete the game three comeback winning 30-23. NMSU out hit Nevada .281 to .132 in game three.
Leading 2-1 the Aggies were looking to end the match four games and did just that scoring the first three points of the game and never trailed in winning 30-25. The game four victory gave NMSU the match 3-1. Nevada trailed by as many as nine points in the final game and hit zero while the Aggies were slightly better at .079.
Senior Salaia Salave`a returned to full time action in the match and totaled a match high 18 kills. Sophomore Teal Ericson also reached double figures with 13 kills. Setter Tristin Johnson had a match high 42 assists. Libero Christine Harms posted a match high 14 digs while Holda contributed 13.
Alice Borden led NMSU with 11 kills while teammates Kim Oguh, and Tanya Allen finished with 10 each. Setter Jackie Choi dished out 41 assists, and was one of three Aggie players to tie for team high honors with nine digs.
NMSU hit .196 in the match and Nevada just .132. The Aggies won the blocking battle 19-11 as Amber Simpson totaled 13 assisted blocks in the match. Karly Sipherd led Nevada with six assisted blocks.
Nevada's continues its two match road trip traveling to Ruston, La. to take on Louisiana Tech on Saturday at 7:00 p.m. central.
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