NASHVILLE, Tenn. \u2013 No. 9 Texas Volleyball fell to No. 6 Louisville in three sets, 25-12, 28-26, 25-16, on Sunday morning at the Broadway Block Party at Bridgestone Arena.<\/p>\n
Torrey Stafford<\/a> led the Longhorns with 14 kills and 10 digs for her second double-double of the season. Cari Spears<\/a> added 12 kills, while Nya Bunton<\/a> finished with five kills and three blocks. Rella Binney<\/a> recorded 27 assists and seven digs for Texas, which fell to 3-3 on the season.<\/p>\n Louisville (5-1) jumped out to an early lead in the opening set and used a pair of blocks to build a 13-7 advantage. The Cardinals continued to extend their lead and took the first set, 25-12.<\/p>\n Texas battled back in the second set, overcoming an early Louisville lead to take a 10-9 advantage on a Stafford kill. The Longhorns later built a 22-20 lead following an Anderson tap kill and went ahead 24-22 after a Louisville service error. The Cardinals answered with three straight points to take a 25-24 lead before Stafford delivered a kill to tie the set at 26-26. Louisville scored the next two points, including a block to close out the set, 28-26, and take a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n Stafford opened the third set with a cross-court kill, but Louisville responded with a 5-1 run to take control. Texas trimmed the deficit to 9-7 after back-to-back Spears kills, but the Cardinals continued to build their advantage. Louisville closed the match on a 4-0 run to win the set, 25-16, and complete the sweep.<\/p>\n Next up, Texas will travel to Dallas for its first true road match of the season, facing No. 8 SMU at Moody Coliseum. The match will be broadcast live on ACC Network, with first serve set for 8 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASHVILLE, Tenn. \u2013 No. 9 Texas Volleyball fell to No. 6 Louisville in three sets, 25-12, 28-26, 25-16,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-428241","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\/428241","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=428241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}