BATON ROUGE, La. – Senior Iman Ndiaye recorded a team-high 19 kills and Ashley Mullen connected for 43 assists in the UCLA women’s volleyball team’s 3-2 loss at LSU in the Maravich Center on Friday evening.
Set scores were 20-25, 18-25, 25-20, 25-21 and 10-15.
After dropping the first two sets, the Bruins (0-1) stormed back in the third and fourth with a combined 28 kills at a .388 hitting percentage. Grayce Olson and Anna Dodson both reached double-figure kills with 11 and 10, respectively. Junior Peyton Dueck snuffed out 18 digs in her first start as UCLA’s libero.
LSU outside hitter Jurnee Robinson recorded a match-high 23 kills while middle blocker Anita Anwusi tacked on 13 more at a .667 hitting percentage.
It was setter Ashley Mullen, who made her collegiate debut, that helped spark a 6-1 run in set three with an ace at the service line and two assists on kills by Ndiaye. The Tigers (1-0) went on to even the frame, 21-all, but Olson’s fourth ace of the match – and her career – put set point at the line for the Bruins who extended into the fourth frame on a bad set by LSU.
Three consecutive Bruin blocks in the fourth pushed UCLA out to a seven-point advantage, 15-8. Two roofs came courtesy of Desiree Becker and Ndiaye. Becker, the graduate transfer from Northwestern, came alive in the final three sets with six kills and four blocks. Two dump kills by Mullen down the stretch and another two kills by Olson forced a fifth in the…
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