PULLMAN, Wash. — Magda Jehlárová finished with three blocks to become the NCAA’s rally-scoring era leader in career blocks (752), and 11th-ranked Washington State (23-7, 13-6 Pac-12) overcame a tight fourth-set loss to win in five sets, 3-2, over No. 18 Arizona State (25-6, 13-6 Pac-12) Wednesday in Bohler Gym. Playing against her former team, Iman Isanovic registered a team-leading 13 kills and a pair of aces, including clutch points down the stretch in a close fifth-set win for the Cougs.
Arizona State led the fifth set, 9-7, when the first of four fifth-set kills for Iman Isanovic sparked a 5-0 run for Washington State. Isanovic had three of her four kills in the set during the brief 5-0 spurt that saw the Cougs turn a two-point deficit into a three-point lead and only three points from closing out the win.
A crowd of over 1,600 on hand for the mid-week day match in Bohler erupted after a Sun Devils’ service error — their 15th of the match —led to Washington State’s first match point opportunity. Magda Jehlárová then ran a successful slide off of a set from Argentina Ung to close the match with a kill for the fifth-year senior playing her final Pac-12 match in Bohler.
Pia Timmer tallied five early aces at the service line, moving into second all-time for her career (146), while also falling just three aces shy of the WSU all-time record for a single match. The…
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