AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The No. 6 Wisconsin volleyball team fell to the No. 9 Texas Longhorn in four sets (25-21, 21-25, 20-25, 16-25) at the Moody Center Sunday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Senior Eva Travis<\/a> led the Wisconsin offense with a season-high 17 kills on a hitting percentage of .289. Senior Grace Lopez<\/a> stuffed the stat sheet with nine kills, while also pitching in nine digs and two blocks.\u00a0<\/p>\n Junior Charlie Fuerbringer<\/a> continued to be a table-setter for the Badgers, chipping in a team-high 42 assists and 15 digs, good for her 22nd career double-double. Libero Anna Bardaro<\/a> recorded a team-high 17 digs.<\/p>\n In the first frame, Wisconsin caught a spark late after trading points with Texas early. The Badgers put together a 4-0 run in the middle of the set, highlighted by a service ace from Isabelle Hoppe<\/a>, to level the score at 16 apiece.<\/p>\n From there, the Badgers combined for a 7-3 run that was capped off by a pair of kills from Wardlow and Flanagan to seal a\u00a0set one victory, 25-21. Travis also pitched in two kills late, putting together a strong showing at the net to pace the Badgers with eight kills on a .636 hitting percentage in the first set alone.\u00a0<\/p>\n The two teams continued to trade points to open the second set, sitting at seven apiece after a kill delivered by Lopez. From there, the Badgers found a 3-0 burst to gain a two-point advantage thanks to another Lopez kill, but Texas responded late in the set to seal the win, 25-21.<\/p>\n In the third set, Texas continued to find their rhythm, rattling off six points before picking up another five consecutive to build separation. Wisconsin provided a 3-0 run of its own highlighted by a block, but Texas closed out the set 25-20 to take the advantage.\u00a0<\/p>\n Texas continued to attack on the offensive end in set four, putting together two separate 4-0 runs to seal the 3-1 match win.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Longhorns’ added\u00a0seven service aces, and their physicality up front forced the Badgers into a hitting percentage of .197 (52 – 22 – 152) compared to Texas’ .250 (58 – 18 – 160). Wisconsin finished with 22 attack errors, in addition to eight blocks turned in by Texas. Notes:<\/p>\n
Up Next: Wisconsin returns to the UW Field House to take on Marquette on Thursday, Sept. 17. First serve is slated for 7 p.m. with the match airing on Big Ten Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The No. 6 Wisconsin volleyball team fell to the No. 9 Texas Longhorn in four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-435059","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\/435059","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=435059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n\tWisconsin moves to 5-9 all-time against the Texas Longhorns after Sunday’s loss, and 2-4 when playing in Austin.
\n\tSetter Charlie Fuerbringer<\/a> tallied her 22nd career double-double with a 42 assist, 15 dig performance against the Longhorns.
\n\tLibero Anna Bardaro<\/a> recorded her fifth double-figure dig total with 17.
\n\tRight side hitter Grace Lopez<\/a> tallied a season-best nine kills. She also add 9 digs and two blocks.
\n\tOutside hitter Eva Travis<\/a> led the Badgers with 17 kills, a new season-high.
\n\tMiddle blocker Jaela Auguste<\/a> saw action on the court, entering in the fourth set, playing for the first time since August 22 against Louisville. Auguste had four kills on seven swings.
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