PHILADELPHIA \u2013\u00a0The UNT volleyball team nearly completed its second reverse sweep of the season but ultimately fell in five sets (23-25, 18-25, 25-22, 25-19, 8-15) to Temple on Sunday afternoon at McGonigle Hall.<\/p>\n
North Texas moves to 9-8 on the season and 2-4 in American Conference play following the loss.<\/p>\n
The two teams split the first four sets as the Owls won the first two and UNT responded with back-to-back victories of their own. With the Mean Green’s sights set on another dramatic comeback, it was Temple who responded in the final frame and clinched the match by a score of 15-8. UNT compiled 50 kills and eight service aces but was unable to harness an Owl offense that recorded 61 kills on a .252 hitting percentage.<\/p>\n
Outside hitters Jahniya Jackson<\/a> and Lillian Croshaw<\/a> led North Texas offensively with 15 kills apiece. Jackson added eight digs and two service aces, while Croshaw finished with five digs and a pair of blocks.<\/p>\n At the setter position, Sidney Soria<\/a> recorded her team-leading sixth double-double of the season with 32 assists and 14 digs, finishing one assist shy of her career-high. Meanwhile, Dakota Mitchell<\/a> reached a new season-best of 21 assists in her second consecutive start at libero.<\/p>\n The Mean Green now return to the state of Texas for a quick visit to UTSA on Wednesday at 5 p.m. That match will be available for streaming on ESPN+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA \u2013\u00a0The UNT volleyball team nearly completed its second reverse sweep of the season but ultimately fell in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-463612","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\/463612","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=463612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}