"Blocking-wise, I think I've just worked a lot on footwork, and I feel like I've always been really good with my hands," Sczech said. Talbert hit 1.000 with six kills on six swings, adding four blocks, two digs and an ace, while Simpson and Sczech combined for 16 kills and eight blocks. But, it was huge, I think, for a lot of reasons." Definitely something we need to learn from, to make it not get that close and put it away when we're up in the third set. "That game could have easily gone five, as Coach Mac was telling us earlier. "Obviously, going into the weekend, we have two games in one day," McGhee said of a schedule that has the Bears playing Arizona State at 11:30 a.m. CSU tied it up with four-straight points and had a match point at 25-24, but the Bears pulled it out, 30-28, on consecutive kills by Simpson and McGhee. ![]() Baylor was on the verge of a quick 3-0 sweep, taking a 22-18 lead in the third set on a ball-handling error by the Rams' Kate Yoshimoto. "We were probably in a position where we were ready to do that." you feel like you can get into that third set and knock them out," McGuyre said. ![]() McGhee closed it out, 25-18, on a powerful kill by McGhee off a set by Carlson, who had 35 assists, six digs, two kills, two blocks and one of Baylor's seven aces. 057 hitting percentage with 11 kills and nine errors on 35 swings, Baylor took command in the second set with a 5-0 run that included two blocks, kills by Simpson and McGhee and a bad set by setter Ciera Pritchard. "I think just having that higher energy made us perform better, the joy that you normally see. "I think our energy was little bit slow at the beginning, and we really brought it and figured it out," McGhee said. McGhee took over to close out the first set, 25-22, with a pair of blocks sandwiched around a kill. After three ties at 14, 17 and 18, Baylor took its first lead, 19-18, on a dump kill by Carlson. The Bears had a 5-1 run and pulled within 12-11 on back-to-back kills by Talbert and Simpson and an attack error by Malaya Jones. And then, once they catch up to the speed, we start playing better." "For our young ones, I think it takes time for their eyes to to get acclimated sometimes, to all that's happening. "The speed of the game at this level is really fast," McGuyre said. Much like previous losses to fifth-ranked Minnesota and Pepperdine, Baylor got off to a slow start in the first set and fell behind 11-6 on an ace by Karina Leber. But afterwards, Averi and I just really figured it out, and we were able to put balls away together." "And then offensively, I think it took a second to warm up. "We went into it saying it was important that we block well and shut down their hitters," McGhee said. In one of her better games in the green and gold, McGhee had nine kills and nine blocks while hitting. Those were huge."Īlready ranked 16 th nationally with a Big 12-best 2.82 blocks per set, Baylor had 12.0 blocks in the three-set sweep of Colorado State (4-3). To her credit, she hit negative for a long time, but her last three swings were positive kills for us. "How can she manage the game and open things up better for others, or still take over the game when the ball is set out there and they know it's going there? She still passed well blocked well, I thought her voice was pretty consistent. "I think as Lauren learns to approach the game a little bit differently, as 'Hey, what's it like when I'm the go-to hitter, what does that mean for us?''' said Baylor head coach Ryan McGuyre, whose team won its home opener and third-straight game overall. ![]() On a night when Harrison struggled, with more attacking errors (8) than kills (7), the 15 th-ranked Baylor volleyball team (4-2) swept the Rams, 25-22, 25-19, 30-28, in the opening game of the Baylor Invitational behind a balanced attack that included seniors Kara McGhee and Mallory Talbert and freshmen Allie Sczech, Riley Simpson and Averi Carlson. But, as visiting Colorado State found out Thursday night at the Ferrell Center, that's not the case. The idea is, if you stop Harrison, you stop Baylor. With dynamic All-American outside hitters like Yossiana Pressley and Avery Skinner gone, Lauren Harrison is going to be the focal point for a lot of opposing defenses.
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