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Next Match:<\/p>\n
Eastern Kentucky <\/p>\n
10\/3\/2026 | 1 PM CT<\/p>\n
\n Oct. 03 (Sat) \/ 1 PM CT
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\n \u00a0Eastern Kentucky
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<\/p>\n ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 UT Arlington fell to Little Rock 3-0 Thursday night at College Park Center. UT Arlington dropped the sets 19-25, 19-25, 22-25 while finishing with 36 kills and a .132 hitting percentage. \u00a0 –#BuckEm–<\/p>\n \u00a0
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\nHOW IT HAPPENED
\nUTA traded points with Little Rock early in the opening set, using a Hana Aiana<\/a> kill and service ace along with finishes from Evyn Snook<\/a>, Camryn McMinn<\/a> and Dixie Nessl<\/a> before a Little Rock service error made it 6-6. Little Rock then moved from a 10-8 lead to 17-9 behind kills from Alyssa Boyte and Avery Fearnley, a Boyte-Lovina Teel block and UTA attack errors. The Mavericks cut an 18-10 deficit to 18-13 on a Little Rock service error, a Fearnley attack error and a McMinn kill, and later got within 22-19 on kills by Snook and McMinn. Little Rock answered with the final three points, closing the set with a Fearnley kill, a UT Arlington setting error and a Boyte kill for a 25-19 result.
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\nAfter trailing 3-2 early in the second set, UTA moved in front 7-4 with help from an Erica Dellesky<\/a>–Hana Aiana<\/a> block, an Aiana kill and two Little Rock attack errors. Little Rock came back from a 10-7 deficit with four straight points to take an 11-10 lead but kills by Mazi Smith<\/a> and Evyn Snook<\/a> helped the Mavs pull even at 13-13. Snook added three more kills as the teams traded points through an 18-18 tie, before Little Rock used a service error and two UTA attack errors to move ahead 21-18. UT Arlington got one point back on an Avery Fearnley attack error, but Little Rock scored the final four points, ending the set on Fearnley’s service ace for a 25-19 win.
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\nUTA opened the third set with Camryn McMinn’s<\/a> kill from Dellesky and a Little Rock attack error for a 2-0 lead, but Little Rock answered to tie it at 2-2 and later moved in front 6-5 on Alayna Vaeth’s kill. The teams traded points through the middle of the set, with Nessl and Smith scoring around Little Rock errors before Evyn Snook<\/a> kills tied the set at 14-14 and 15-15. After Nessl’s kill and a Little Rock attack error brought the Mavericks even at 17-17, Little Rock had a 19-17 lead before Emilee Sikora’s<\/a> kill, and kills by Alyssa Boyte and Avery Fearnley made it 21-18. Sikora followed with another kill and a service ace to pull UTA within 21-20, but Little Rock later reached 24-21 on Lorena Keselj’s kill and, after Snook’s kill made it 24-22, closed the set 25-22 on a UT Arlington attack error.
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\nGame Notes<\/p>\n
\nUP NEXT
\nUTA hosts Eastern Kentucky on Saturday, Oct. 3, at 1 p.m. at College Park Center in Arlington, Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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