NACOGDOCHES, Texas \u2013\u00a0The UNT volleyball team suffered a 3-1 (13-25, 18-25, 25-21, 24-26) defeat to UT Arlington in its first match of the Texas Challenge tournament on Thursday.<\/p>\n
With the loss, North Texas dropped to 3-3 on the season.<\/p>\n
UT Arlington took control of the match early, winning the first two sets by a combined score of 50-31. The Mean Green were able to find some momentum with a 25-21 third set victory, but it was ultimately not enough as the Mavericks bounced back to clinch the fourth in extra points. Despite strong performances from several Mean Green players, a .266 hitting percentage by UT Arlington compared to UNT’s mark of .076 proved to be the deciding difference.<\/p>\n
For the fifth time in six matches, Jahniya Jackson<\/a> led the North Texas offense with 11 kills and three service aces, including a pair late in set three to clinch the game. She also added six digs and two blocks defensively. Meanwhile, middle blocker Addison Achilles<\/a> continued her strong season through five blocks and nine kills on a .333 hitting percentage.<\/p>\n Outside hitter Jocelyn Jourdan<\/a> also provided a positive push off the bench, securing five kills on seven swings alongside two blocks. At libero, Alessandra Romo<\/a> compiled 21 digs, just two shy of her career-high, for her third 20-dig outing of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n North Texas quickly turns around to face tournament host Stephen F. Austin on Friday at 6 p.m. The match will be available for streaming on ESPN+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NACOGDOCHES, Texas \u2013\u00a0The UNT volleyball team suffered a 3-1 (13-25, 18-25, 25-21, 24-26) defeat to UT Arlington in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-432279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432279","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=432279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}