ORLANDO, Fla. – Virginia dropped a trio of tight sets in a 3-0 loss at UCF on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Outside hitter Reagan Ennist<\/a> led the Cavaliers (3-3) with 11 kills while setter Hannah Scott<\/a> dished out 18 assists. For the Knights (7-1), outside hitter Avah Amour and rightside hitter Natasha Casey had ten kills a piece, while Casey also added seven aces.\u00a0<\/p>\n HOW IT HAPPENED<\/p>\n Set 1: UCF 25, Virginia 22<\/p>\n UCF controlled a majority of the opening set and held a late 23-15 lead before a late 7-0 rally by Virginia cut the deficit to one. The Hoos capitalized on a pair of attack errors and a service error by UCF while kills by Reagan Ennist<\/a> and Lauryn Bowie<\/a> and a Katie Barrier<\/a> ace field the comeback. The Knights responded with back-to-back kills by Sasha Cohen and Avah Amour to clinch it.<\/p>\n Set 2: UCF 25, Virginia 21<\/p>\n The Knights took a tight second set that saw no team lead by more than three until the final point. Virginia led 6-3 early on though UCF responded with a 4-0 run to claim a 7-6 lead. The teams were tied at 10-10, 11-11, 12-12, 13-13, 14-14, 15-15 and 16-16 before the Knights surged for the next three points. Virginia took the next two points on kills by Reese Wuebker<\/a> and Ennist though the Knights closed the set with six of the final nine points.<\/p>\n Set 3: UCF 25, Virginia 21<\/p>\n Virginia jumped out to a 8-3 lead sparked by a pair of 3-0 runs, though the Knights stayed within striking distance and rattled off a 5-1 run to trim the Cavalier lead to 13-12. After a UCF service error, the Knights responded with the next seven points to pull ahead 19-14. A 4-0 Cavalier run, capped off by kills from Ennist and Wuebker, got the Hoos back within one, but UCF finished the set with six of the final nine points.<\/p>\n MATCH NOTES<\/p>\n Fourth-year setter Hannah Scott<\/a> totaled 18 assists – giving her 2,009 for her career. Her 2,000th career assist came in the second set on a Caroline Lang<\/a> kill to make the score 9-9.<\/p>\n QUOTABLE<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m proud of the way we responded today. I thought we went for the win and played aggressive. We put ourselves in a position to beat a very good UCF team and weren\u2019t able to make plays. We can fix that. We will get back in the gym and get better this week.\u00a0 I love the journey the team is on. The wins will come. We trust the process and the work we are putting in.\u201d – head coach Shannon Wells<\/a>.<\/p>\n NEXT UP<\/p>\n The Cavaliers return to the Aquatic & Fitness Center for a three-game home stand next week. UVA hosts George Washington on Tuesday before a pair of matches with Ohio State on Friday and Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. – Virginia dropped a trio of tight sets in a 3-0 loss at UCF on Saturday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-398195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}