{"id":415043,"date":"2026-08-24T02:50:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T02:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/415043\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T02:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T02:50:19","slug":"no-8-texas-am-swept-by-no-11-smu-at-avca-first-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/415043\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 8 Texas A&#038;M swept by No. 11 SMU at AVCA First Serve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) &#8211; Defending national champion Texas A&amp;M volleyball closed out AVCA First Serve this afternoon with a 3-0 (27-25, 25-19, 25-20) loss to No. 11 SMU. The Aggies entered the match following a 3-1 to No. 7 Louisville on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Here is a game rundown:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Why did A&amp;M lose? A&amp;M and SMU went back and forth through the first set. The Aggies came back from down to tie the set at 22. However, SMU took set one, 27-25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A&amp;M held control early in the second set, but Suli Davis took the momentum back for SMU midway through. The Mustangs took set two, 25-19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In set three, SMU pulled away. The Mustangs went on an eight-and-two run halfway through the set, leaving A&amp;M behind. SMU took set three, 25-20, completing the sweep and beating the Aggies 3-0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Who stood out? Natalie Ring led the Aggies for the second straight match with 13 kills. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">What\u2019s next? A&amp;M will head back home to Reed Arena for the Texas A&amp;M Invitational on Friday. The Aggies open play in a doubleheader against Grand Canyon, with first serve at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KBTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) &#8211; Defending national champion Texas A&amp;M volleyball closed out AVCA First Serve this afternoon with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-415043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415043","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=415043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}