LAWRENCE, Kan. \u2014 The No. 15 Kansas Jayhawks swept the Kansas State Wildcats 25-17, 25-21, 25-20 on Friday night in front of a record-breaking crowd of 8,058 in Allen Fieldhouse.<\/p>\n
Grace Nelson<\/a> led the Jayhawk offense with 10 kills, and Reese Ptacek<\/a> and Taylor Stanley<\/a> each added nine. Reese Messer<\/a> tallied 24 assists and directed the attack to a .309 hitting percentage.<\/p>\n Aisha Aiono<\/a> recorded six blocks, Stanley added four, and Ptacek and Messer each chipped in two. Olivia Hasbrook<\/a> anchored the back-row defense with 15 digs, Nelson added eight, and Messer and Logan Bell<\/a> each had seven.<\/p>\n After a back-and-forth start, Kansas took advantage of back-to-back Kansas State errors to build a 4-2 lead. The Jayhawks didn’t relinquish the lead for the remainder of the set, and a Stanley ace and a slide from Ptacek extended the advantage to 7-4. Bell earned her first point of the match on an ace before Stanley got through the block for her fifth kill of the night to give KU a 15-10 lead at the media timeout.<\/p>\n Kansas State scored back-to-back points out of the timeout, but Ptacek and Messer stopped the run with a left-side block, and an Aiono kill out of the middle made it 19-14. The Wildcats took a timeout after Messer’s ace extended the lead to 20-14. Nelson’s kill out of the timeout kept the momentum going, and Ptacek’s swing from the middle eventually closed out the set 25-17.<\/p>\n Kansas jumped out to a 3-1 lead in the second set, and after the teams traded points, a kill and a block by Aiono extended the advantage to 9-7. Following a long rally, Ptacek scored on a tip and again on a swing through the gap for a 15-12 lead at the media timeout.<\/p>\n The teams traded points out of the timeout before the Jayhawks pulled away behind a kill from Aiono and Nelson’s serving. The Wildcats responded with four straight points to make it 21-19 and force a Kansas timeout. Ptacek answered with a kill out of the timeout, and Nelson’s kill from the left side closed out the set 25-21.<\/p>\n Kansas took a 5-1 lead in the third set behind Nelson’s serving, and a Ptacek kill extended the advantage to 7-2. Nelson found her way through the block to make it 10-5, part of a 12-5 lead that forced a Kansas State timeout. The Jayhawks kept the momentum and carried a 15-7 lead into the media timeout. Stanley recorded her ninth kill of the night, and Ptacek put away an overpass to extend the advantage to 19-10. The Wildcats battled back with a late 5-0 run before kills by Bell and Nelson sealed the 25-20 set and the sweep.<\/p>\n The Jayhawks return to action Sunday when they face the Iowa State Cyclones at noon CT in Ames, Iowa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAWRENCE, Kan. \u2014 The No. 15 Kansas Jayhawks swept the Kansas State Wildcats 25-17, 25-21, 25-20 on Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-900959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}