{"id":463197,"date":"2026-10-11T19:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T19:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/463197\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T19:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T19:48:12","slug":"owls-defeat-north-texas-in-thrilling-five-set-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/463197\/","title":{"rendered":"Owls Defeat North Texas In Thrilling Five Set Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHILADELPHIA – Temple Volleyball (11-7) defeated North Texas (9-8) Sunday afternoon in a five set thriller. The Owls took the first two sets, but North Texas fought their way back to tie the match at 2-2. Thanks to the performance of Christiana Greene<\/a>, Temple was able to pull out the win. Greene recorded a career high of 28 kills on an efficient .364 hitting percentage. We have to mention Lexi Yoza<\/a> also added 40 assists in an excellent offensive performance from the Owls.<\/p>\n

Set:1 (Temple 25 – North Texas 23)

\nThe scoring was started with a strong kill from Jaya Moore<\/a>. Freshman Sarah Quarells<\/a> made an impact early with a block as the Owls took a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n

Christiana Greene<\/a> picked up from where she left off last match as she recorded four kills early in the first as Temple led 11-9. North Texas would make a comeback scoring five out of the next six points to take the lead 15-13 at the media timeout.<\/p>\n

Temple quickly got back into that game rattling off four straight with points from Greene and Olivia Hummel<\/a> to take the lead at 17-16.<\/p>\n

North Texas kept it tight the rest of the way but Hummel ended the set recording the last two kills as Temple won 25-23.<\/p>\n

Set:2 (Temple 25 – North Texas 18)

\nNorth Texas came out hot in the second set scoring three straight, but Temple would respond with points of their own and tie the game at five.<\/p>\n

The match was deadlocked at one midway through set two. At the media timeout, North Texas led by one at 14-15.<\/p>\n

Hummel and Greene were fantastic in the second set, Temple was able to take a four point lead at 21-17 as both were responsible 2 kills each.<\/p>\n

The Owls would go on to score the next four out of five points as they won the set 25-18 with a Khenedi Guest<\/a> ace.<\/p>\n

Set:3 (Temple 21 – North Texas 25)

\nNorth Texas jumped out to an early 5-1 lead to start the third set. Temple would respond with kills from Moore and an ace from Maddix Taniguchi<\/a> to close the gap at 4-6.<\/p>\n

At the media timeout, North Texas continued to apply pressure on the Owls and took a commanding lead at 15-9.<\/p>\n

Temple was able to swing momentum back their way scoring seven out of the next eight points. As north Texas led 17-18. But North Texas was able to hold off the Owls comeback and win the set 21-25.<\/p>\n

Set:4 (Temple 18 – North Texas 25)

\nTemple started off strong in the fourth set, scoring four of the first five points. North Texas would come back closing the gap to two at 8-6.<\/p>\n

Errors hurt the Owls as North Texas extended their lead to three at the media time out 13-15.<\/p>\n

Temple did all they could to regain the lead but North Texas pulled out the set win at 18-25<\/p>\n

Set:5 (Temple 15 – North Texas 8)

\nThe last set started off with North Texas scoring three straight to start, but the Owls responded with a five point run of their own.<\/p>\n

Temple would gain a slight advantage going up four at 10-6. They continued to cranked up the intensity in the final set and pulled out the win at 15-8.<\/p>\n

Next Up

\nTemple will make the trip down south to face Memphis and UAB on October 16th and October 18th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA – Temple Volleyball (11-7) defeated North Texas (9-8) Sunday afternoon in a five set thriller. The Owls…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-463197","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\/463197","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=463197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}