ARLINGTON, Texas — UT Arlington (10-11, 4-5 UAC) defeated Tarleton St. (8-14, 4-5 UAC) 3-1 on Tuesday. The Mavericks closed the first set on an 8-0 run after trailing 20-17, taking the set 25-20 before finishing the match in four sets.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
The Mavericks started with consecutive Evyn Snook kills for a 2-0 lead, but Tarleton St. answered quickly and the opening set stayed tight through ties at 10-10, 12-12, 14-14 and 16-16. After a Tarleton St. service error put the Mavericks ahead 17-16, Tarleton St. scored four of the next five points to move in front 20-17. UTA closed the set with eight straight points, starting with a Tarleton St. service error and continuing through Lucy Tricco’s service rotation, as Eliana Collins had a kill, Dixie Nessl added a block and a kill, and Karisa Martin finished the 25-20 set win.
 
UTA moved in front 5-2 in the second set with kills by Evyn Snook and Martin and a Lily Hopkins service ace, but Tarleton St. came back to tie it at 6-6 on Breannah Peterson’s kill. The teams traded points through 13-13 before Tarleton St. scored the next two, while a Hana Aiana kill and a block by Camryn McMinn and Nessl helped UTA pull even at 17-17. Another Nessl-McMinn block tied it 18-18, and the Mavericks later went ahead 20-19 on a Tarleton St. attack error before Karisa Martin’s kill made it 21-20. Tarleton St. answered with three straight points for a 23-21 lead, the Mavericks tied it at 23-23, and the visitors closed the set 25-23 on consecutive kills by Onita Davis and Alyssa Dinh.
 
Four Evyn Snook kills helped the Mavericks open a 4-0 lead in the third set, and they stayed in front after Tarleton St. cut the margin to 6-4. UTA moved ahead 12-8 on a Martin kill, then pulled away to 20-9 with Martin adding two more kills, Hana Aiana and Lucy Tricco contributing kills, and Tarleton St. errors adding to the run. Tarleton St. trimmed the score to 21-13 with two Laci Schoen kills during a three-point stretch, but Snook answered with a kill and Eliana Collins followed with another to push the Mavericks toward set point. After Tarleton St. held off one set point, Collins finished the set with a kill from Tricco for a 25-15 Mavericks win.
 
UTA built a 4-0 lead in the fourth set with two Tarleton St. attack errors and consecutive Evyn Snook kills from Tricco, but Tarleton St. tied it at 4-4 and later moved in front 11-8. After Tarleton St. led 12-10, the Mavericks scored five straight points behind two Eliana Collins kills, a Tricco service ace and two Tarleton St. attack errors to move ahead 15-12, though Tarleton St. came back to tie the set at 16-16, 17-17, 18-18 and 20-20. Tricco put the Mavericks back in front 21-20 with a kill from Snook, Collins added a kill for 22-20, and after Tarleton St. cut it to 22-21, an Alexa Earle service error and kills by Martin and Collins finished the set at 25-21. 
 
Game Notes

 
UP NEXT
UTA will return home to the College Park Center for Alumni Day vs. North Alabama on Saturday, Oct. 24 at 1 p.m. CT.
 
 

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