Kansas State stopped Kansas, 15-6, 17-15 and 15-13 in Big 12 volleyball on Wednesday night.
The Jayhawks fell to 11-5 overall and 2-5 in the league. KSU is 10-4, 4-2. The match was played before 2,012 fans.
KSU stretched its winning streak to 11 matches versus Kansas, dating to 1994.
The Jayhawks will look to snap their current three-match losing skid as they host Texas on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Horejsi Family Athletics
Game one was a back and forth affair early as neither team held a lead
larger than two points until the Wildcats managed a 9-6 advantage.
From then on, a tough Wildcat defense shut down the Jayhawk offense.
Kansas was forced to use its second time out of game one when the
Wildcats pushed the score to 11-6 and at the end of K-State’s
seven-point rally, the Wildcats had turned a 5-6 disadvantage into a
12-6 lead. K-State took game one, 15-6, aided by six Kansas service
errors.
KU trailed the Wildcats early in game two 2-6, but forced the home
team to use a time out as the Jayhawks pulled within one point at 5-6.
KU received a shot in the arm behind the blocking of Danielle Geronymo
and Nancy Bell whose back-to-back block assists pushed Kansas in front
of the Wildcats 10-8. KU used the momentum to open up a 13-8 lead
before K-State tied the game at 13 apiece. Both teams exchanged side
outs and made outstanding defensive plays before a questionable call
and a kill attempt that crept along the top of the net before falling into
KU’s court, turned into the game-winning points for K-State.
True to form, game three was nip and tuck until Kansas pulled ahead
9-5. KU held a 12-7 lead before the Wildcats started clawing their way
back into the game. KSU ran off seven-straight points to take the lead
14-12 before Kansas could score its thirteenth point. KSU took the
game and the match on Liz Wegner’s school-record 29th kill.
