Aggies Battle Hoosiers, Fall in Four Friday Afternoon – Texas A&M Athletics

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The Texas A&M volleyball team’s five-match win streak came to a halt Friday afternoon, falling in four sets (25-19, 22-25, 19-25, 23-25) to the Indiana Hoosiers (6-4) in its opening match of the WKU Invitational inside Diddle Arena.
 
The Aggies (6-3) recorded 11 service aces as a team, led by Logan Lednicky, Ava Underwood and Caroline Meuth, who all finished with three apiece. The 11 aces were the most by the Aggies in a non-conference match since turning in the same amount against UTRGV on Sept. 13, 2019.
 
Lednicky recorded her first career double-double, finishing with 12 kills and a team-leading 13 digs, while Meuth tallied a team-high 19 kills on .317 hitting. Elena Karakasi dished out 33 assists and finished with a pair of aces and three blocks, while Madison Bowser registered a team-best four stuffs.
 

The Aggies opened the match on a 5-1 run behind a handful of Hoosier errors. A pair of aces from Lednicky and Underwood gave A&M a seven-point cushion approaching the midway point of the set. Lednicky’s team-high four kills and pair of aces forced Indiana to call a timeout, trailing 19-13. The Hoosiers responded with a 3-0 run, but a kill and a block by Meuth silenced the surge. Back-to-back aces from Underwood carried the Aggies to a 23-16 advantage, before Meuth secured the frame, 25-19, with her team-leading fifth kill.
 

The second set was a back-and-forth battle to start, before the Hoosier charged ahead, 9-5, despite a trio of kills from Meuth. Indiana continued to separate itself, before A&M pieced together a 4-1 run behind another kill and ace from Meuth. The Maroon & White used a three-point run to come within two with Indiana sitting at set point, but the Hoosiers held on for the 25-22 win.  
 

The Hoosiers continued to run in the third, before A&M’s eighth ace of the match, this time from Karakasi, leveled the score at five-all. The Aggies took their first lead of the set behind a block by Bowser and Karakasi, sitting in front, 10-9. Indiana fought back and jumped ahead, 16-11, before a block and kill from Bowser brought A&M within four, trailing 21-17. A kill from Mia Johnson kept the Aggies within reach, but the Hoosiers sealed the frame, 25-19.
 

In the deciding set, the Aggies led early behind their ninth team ace and second from…