Iowa State Volleyball Falls in Three Games at No. 20 Texas A&M

Friday, September 27

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Iowa State Volleyball Falls in Three Games at No. 20 Texas A&M

09.27.2002 | Volleyball

By: Iowa State University

COLLEGE STATION, Texas - The Iowa State volleyball team fell in three sets at No. 20 Texas A&M, Friday night in the G. Rollie White Coliseum. Freshman Amanda Craig paced the Cyclones with five kills and 10 digs on the night. The loss moves ISU's overall record to 9-6 and to 0-4 in Big 12 action. With the win Texas A&M improved to 10-3 on the year and to 2-2 in league play.

The Aggies dominated the match offensively and defensively, hitting .250 from the floor and collecting 64 digs. Texas A&M committed just 18 hitting errors on 127 attacks. The Cyclones were limited to 27 kills, and a -.016 hitting percentage.

ISU's Dana Koziol had 15 digs and senior Sara Stribe had four kills, 14 digs and 21 assists to help the Cyclone cause on the night. Stribe now has 2,372 career assists, which places her fifth on ISU's all-time career list. She needs just 97 assists to move into fourth place, currently occupied by Kary Law. With her five kills tonight, Craig only needs five more to break the century mark for kills.

Texas A&M was solid in game one as they hit .263 for the floor, while collecting 15 kills and just five hitting errors. ISU tallied 38 k kills, but was able to register just seven kills in a 30-15 opening game loss.

The Cyclones were tougher defensively in game two, limiting the Aggies to just 13 kills on 34 attacks, but ISU managed just six kills on 33 attacks and fell, 30-17.

Iowa State rebounded in game three and got its offense rolling again, registering 58 attacks to Texas A&M's 55, but the Aggies had 16 kills to ISU's 14 and hit .127 from the floor to the Cyclones' .103 and claimed game three 30-26 and the match 3-0.

Iowa State will travel to Columbia, Mo., to take on Missouri on Wednesday, Oct. 2 in the Hearnes Center. First serve will be at 7 p.m.