{"id":119664,"date":"2026-01-12T06:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T06:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/119664\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T06:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T06:17:07","slug":"lovb-nebraska-outlasts-houston-in-second-straight-five-set-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/119664\/","title":{"rendered":"LOVB Nebraska outlasts Houston in second-straight five-set match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) &#8211; LOVB Nebraska outlasted LOVB Houston in second consecutive five-set battle Sunday afternoon, earning a 3-2 victory (22-25, 37-35, 25-19, 21-25, 15-10) at Baxter Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Nebraska lost its season opener in five sets on the road at LOVB Austin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In what marked the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/2026\/01\/09\/live-9-am-jordan-larson-with-lovb-nebraska-set-make-announcement\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/2026\/01\/09\/live-9-am-jordan-larson-with-lovb-nebraska-set-make-announcement\/\">final home opener of Jordan Larson\u2019s illustrious playing career<\/a>, Nebraska improved to 1-1 on the season. Larson led the way with a double-double, finishing with 14 kills and 13 digs, as Nebraska placed four players in double figures for kills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The match turned in a marathon second set, when Nebraska prevailed 37-35. The 72 combined points marked the highest-scoring set in league history, surpassing the previous record of 64 set last season against LOVB Salt Lake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Middle blocker Ana Carolina da Silva led Nebraska with 18 points, including 11 kills and six blocks. Outside hitter Anne Buijs added another 18 points with a team high 16 kills, while opposite Kimberly Drewniok posted a second double-double with 14 kills and 11 digs for 15 points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Middle blocker Candelaria Herrera chipped in eight kills and provided a spark off the bench.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Houston dropped to 0-2 despite strong performances from Jordan Thompson and Jess Mruzik. Thompson finished with 22 kills for her seventh 20-kill match in LOVB play, while Mruzik added 16 kills, three blocks and two aces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Nebraska next travels to face LOVB Madison on Friday before returning home to Baxter Arena on Sunday for a 5 p.m. match against LOVB Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WOWT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) &#8211; LOVB Nebraska outlasted LOVB Houston in second consecutive five-set battle Sunday afternoon, earning a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[52181,52182,52185,52184,56,58,57,52186,52179,52187,52183,46484,52180,50639,23760,52178,51728,23759,5670],"class_list":{"0":"post-119664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-ana-carolina-da-silva","9":"tag-anne-buijs","10":"tag-baxter-arena","11":"tag-candelaria-herrera","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-houston-headlines","14":"tag-houston-news","15":"tag-jess-mruzik","16":"tag-jordan-larson","17":"tag-jordan-thompson","18":"tag-kimberly-drewniok","19":"tag-league-one-volleyball","20":"tag-lexi-rodriguez","21":"tag-lovb","22":"tag-lovb-houston","23":"tag-lovb-nebraska","24":"tag-omaha","25":"tag-pro-volleyball","26":"tag-volleyball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}