LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 Texas Tech (8-12, 0-8) dropped its match to UCF (11-8, 3-6) on Friday night by a score of 3-0.<\/p>\n
Aviya Russo<\/a> made her first start tonight for the Red Raiders. She finished the night with a team-high six kills on 22 attempts and also had nine digs, three aces and was in on a pair of blocks. The freshman led the team in aces, blocks and points in her debut.<\/p>\n Kenna McKenzie<\/a> and Tatum Johnson<\/a> combined for 10 kills while Sara Bowcutt<\/a>, Gretchen Sigman<\/a> and Faith Jordan<\/a> all recorded four kills. As a team, Tech hit .063 and had 38 digs while the Knights hit .283 with 29 digs. The Knights also had eight aces and 10 blocks while Tech had just four in both categories.<\/p>\n Katelyn Cochran<\/a> recorded a double-double, her fourth, with 16 assists and 11 digs as fellow setter Taylor Cook<\/a> got 11 assists and three digs. Ava Johnson<\/a> spent some time at libero, recording three assists and five digs. UCF’s Avah Armour led the match with 15 kills and hit .351 as the powered the Knights to their third-straight Big 12 win.<\/p>\n The Knights took the first set and ran with it. They went up 15-8 at the media break and used their over .600 hitting percentage, and no errors, to take the opening set 25-13. The Red Raiders had more kills but also had 11 errors in the set.<\/p>\n UCF took another lead going into the media timeout of the second set, and although they were not hitting as well, they held Tech to a .000 hitting percentage up to that point. Tech was able to overcome that and force a Knights timeout at 17-17. Out of the break, UCF went on a 4-0 run to force a Tech timeout. The Knights would go on to win the set 25-20.<\/p>\n Tech had the early lead in set three going up 12-10 to force a Knights timeout. Tech pushed that lead to 17-14 out of the media timeout and were hitting .346 in the set up to that point. Both teams traded 3-0 runs to put Tech back up 20-17 and force UCF to take its final timeout. The Knights would come out on top to secure their third-straight win, however, and complete the sweep.<\/p>\n UP NEXT: The Red Raiders will be back on the road to play Kansas State at 1 p.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 Texas Tech (8-12, 0-8) dropped its match to UCF (11-8, 3-6) on Friday night by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-475336","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\/475336","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=475336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}