HOUSTON, Texas \u2013 Iowa State (12-8, 6-3 Big 12) dropped a four-setter at Houston (12-8, 5-4 Big 12) Sunday afternoon by set scores of 21-25, 25-20, 17-25, 20-25.<\/p>\n
Mesaiya Bettis<\/a> has a career night with a match-leading 23 kills at .436, an all-time high and the hitter’s first 20-plus match. Bettis reached 10 kills early in the second set, securing her fourth match in a row in double figures. Alea Goolsby<\/a> was the second Cyclone with 10-plus kills hitting 12 at .345.<\/p>\n Rachel Van Gorp<\/a> led with 21 digs, the 20th 20-plus dig match of her career and seventh this season. Van Gorp also had six assists and three aces. Nayeli Ti’a<\/a> joined Van Gorp in double figures with 14 digs.<\/p>\n SET ONE<\/p>\n Bettis and Goolsby put down the first three kills of the match to begin up 3-0, and Iowa State remained with the lead at 10-9 after a block by a trio of Cyclones. Houston followed to flip the lead at 11-10, but ISU came back for it at 14-13 after a Van Gorp ace. The holder of the lead continued to change, but Houston held it narrowly, reaching 20 first at 20-19. UH then found a three-point edge at 22-19 while Bettis then put down her sixth kill to try and halt Houston’s momentum. Bettis continued putting down kills with her seventh to make it 23-21, but Houston pushed on to win the first 25-21.<\/p>\n SET TWO<\/p>\n Bettis had kill No. 10 hitting at .643 to pull within one of Houston at 5-4. ISU went ahead on the scoreboard at 6-5, and was the first to 10 points (10-8). ISU remained up at 15-10 after a run of four that included two kills, a block and an ace. Houston took a run of its own to tie the score back at 15s, but ISU fought back with a scoring spree including three more Bettis kills to lead 20-15. Iowa State continued with the lead to take the set at 25-20 to tie up the match.<\/p>\n SET THREE SET FOUR<\/p>\n Van Gorp hit 20 digs in the early goings of the fourth, while Goolsby put down her 10th kill shortly after to make it 6-3, ISU. Houston scored the next five to go up 8-6, but Bettis silenced the home team with her 20th kill next. UH remained in front at the media timeout (15-12) while Iowa State called a timeout soon after with Houston ahead 17-14. Iowa State fought off four match points but was unable to get the lead back as Houston won the match with a fourth set score of 25-20.<\/p>\n Next up<\/p>\n Iowa State returns for a two-match homestand hosting West Virginia Friday, Oct. 30 at 6:30 p.m. and No. 17 Kansas Sunday, Nov. 1 at noon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas \u2013 Iowa State (12-8, 6-3 Big 12) dropped a four-setter at Houston (12-8, 5-4 Big 12)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-476816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476816","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=476816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAn ace by Goolsby made it 5-4, ISU early on while the host went on to reach double digits first as ISU held eight points. Iowa State called a timeout as Houston led 17-14, but the Cougars controlled the lead to win the set 25-17.<\/p>\n