DENTON, Texas \u2013\u00a0The UNT volleyball team overcame a 0-2 deficit to reverse sweep (20-25, 22-25, 25-18, 25-10, 15-9) East Texas A&M on Saturday afternoon at the UNT Volleyball Center.<\/p>\n
It marked the 17th reverse sweep in program history and first since Sept. 18, 2025, against LA Tech. With the win, North Texas improved to 7-4 as it heads into American Conference play next weekend.<\/p>\n
“We just kept asking them to fight,” head coach Dave Fleming<\/a> said. “I think it’s important to get punched in the nose and [show] you can still respond. Proud of the team for that.”<\/p>\n After falling into a 0-2 hole, UNT dominated the final three sets as it outscored the Lions by a score of 65-37. The Mean Green compiled a season-high 71 kills on a .267 hitting percentage in addition to 13 service aces, their most since that same match against LA Tech last season.<\/p>\n On a day full of standout performances, outside hitter Lillian Croshaw<\/a> led the offensive attack as she tied her career-high of 20 kills. The junior has found her groove over the past five matches, averaging 3.0 kills per set on a .367 hitting percentage in that span. Fellow outside hitters Jahniya Jackson<\/a> and Reagan Bedell<\/a> were not far behind with 15 and 13 kills, respectively.<\/p>\n Croshaw and Jackson capped their stellar weekends with selections to the UNT Invitational All-Tournament Team.<\/p>\n Alessandra Romo<\/a> contributed five of UNT’s 13 aces, marking the most of her career and highest total by a Mean Green player this season. Playing in just her third match of the season, Kennedy Cooper<\/a> also provided a spark off the bench with four service aces of her own.<\/p>\n UNT’s setter tandem of Sidney Soria<\/a> and Olivia Branum<\/a> combined for 65 assists to continue their productive seasons. Just a freshman, Branum completed the day with 11 digs alongside 26 assists for her team-leading fifth double-double of the year.<\/p>\n Having won four of its last five matches, North Texas opens the American Conference schedule next Friday at 6 p.m. against Florida Atlantic. The contest will be available for streaming on ESPN+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENTON, Texas \u2013\u00a0The UNT volleyball team overcame a 0-2 deficit to reverse sweep (20-25, 22-25, 25-18, 25-10, 15-9)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-441857","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\/441857","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=441857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}