EL PASO, Texas \u2014 New Mexico Volleyball saw its four-match winning streak come to an end Thursday night at Memorial Gym, falling to UTEP in straight sets (22-25, 14-25, 22-25) in Mountain West play.<\/p>\n
The Lobos (6-11, 4-3 MW) battled closely with the Miners in the opening and third sets but couldn\u2019t sustain their momentum, finishing with a .065 hitting percentage while UTEP hit .270 with 45 kills and 11 team blocks.<\/p>\n
The two teams will square off again Saturday at The Pit – Powered by Nusenda to close out the weekend series. Thursday\u2019s match was the first meeting between the two as Mountain West foes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
UNM held a 14-12 advantage midway through the opening set and rallied from a two-point deficit to take an 18-17 lead before UTEP closed out the frame. After the Miners controlled the second set, the Lobos responded with their strongest start of the night in the third, building a 17-10 advantage behind a balanced offensive effort. UTEP answered with a 10-3 run to even the score at 20-all before winning five of the final seven points to complete the sweep.<\/p>\n
Addison France<\/a> led New Mexico with nine kills and seven digs, while Mina Stanojevic<\/a> added seven kills and 11 digs. Madeleine Miller<\/a> finished with 21 assists and 10 digs for her second double-double of the season, while Camila Canedo<\/a> paced the Lobos defensively with 12 digs.<\/p>\n UTEP held a 45-27 advantage in kills and an 11-2 edge in team blocks, limiting New Mexico to a combined .073 hitting percentage over the final two sets.<\/p>\n UP NEXT \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas \u2014 New Mexico Volleyball saw its four-match winning streak come to an end Thursday night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-467558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467558","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=467558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Saturday\u2019s rematch in Albuquerque is set for a 7 p.m. MT first serve and will be available to stream via MW+, with live stats for both matches available via GoLobos.com\/VBStats. Follow @UNMLoboVB on IG, X and Facebook for match updates and coverage, promotional information, behind-the-scenes content and more.<\/p>\n