TEMPE, Ariz. – The Colorado women’s volleyball team (14-12, 6-9) fell in four sets (25-21, 21-25, 21-25, 16-25) to the No.17 Arizona State Sun Devils (23-4,11-4) Thursday night.
Despite the loss, Colorado played a strong match led once again by outside hitter Maya Tabron in kills. The senior earned 14 kills in 39 attempts to hit .231 while also posting an impressive 19 digs. With her fifth kill of the match, Tabron also achieved 1,000 career kills.
Middle blocker Skyy Howard led the team in attack percentage at .429 with nine kills on 14 attempts, while Taylor Simpson marked down 33 assists.
Colorado was unable to slow down Arizona State’s Marta Levinska as she posted 25 kills in 45 attempts to hit .444. As a team, CU hit .167 while the Sun Devils hit .280.
The Buffs will hope to bounce back against the University of Arizona Wildcats on Saturday at 2 p.m. MT in Tucson.
HOW IT HAPPENED:
SET ONE: Colorado jumped to an early lead of 7-4, however, the Sun Devils caught up to take the lead at 9-8 after a 3-0 scoring run. After a four point deficit for the Buffs at 13-9, three consecutive kills from Tabron brought the Buffs back within a point at 13-12. Colorado managed to pull ahead to an 18-17 lead to force an ASU timeout. Another 3-0 scoring run gave Colorado the lead at 21-19 off of Tabron’s fourth kill of the match. The Buffs held on to take set one 25-21.
SET TWO: Tabron earned her 1,000th career kill to stay within one of ASU at…
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