PULLMAN, Wash. — 13th-ranked Washington State (8-1) tallied 11 blocks and finished with an attack percentage of .302 (58-19-129) as a team in a 3-1 win over eighth-ranked BYU (8-1) Friday night in a raucous Bohler Gym. The win for the Cougars was their first top-10 win since taking out sixth-ranked Washington in Bohler back in 2021 and was the first loss on the season for a BYU team that had been unstoppable through two matches of this week’s Cougar Challenge.
Libero Karly Basham had 16 digs and four assists on the evening while setter Argentina Ung dished out 47 assists with nine digs and two blocks. Magda Jehlarova finished with 11 kills on only 19 swings (11-3-19, .421), giving the Cougars a boost offensively in crucial moments all night. Pia Timmer (21-6-48, .312) and Iman Isanovic (20-5-36, .417) each hit 20 kills on the evening, the first pair to do so since Laura Jansen and Timmer combined for over 20 kills to beat USC in five sets last season.
BYU pulled away in the closing stages of the first set as three Washington State attack errors and one service aces from BYU gave it a 24-17 lead and set point at the end of a 6-0 run. A block assist from Lana Radakovic and Pia Timmer threw the Bohler student section into a frenzy as the Cougars evened the set at 10-10, and five points later a kill from Timmer sparked a 4-0 run to push their lead to 16-12.
WSU never relinquished the lead in the second set and went on to finish with an attack…
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