LINCOLN, Neb. – The No. 2 Nebraska volleyball team dropped its first match of the season to No. 9 Stanford Tuesday night, 3-1 (25-27, 22-25, 25-19, 25-27) in front of 8,385 at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
The Huskers fell to 7-1, while Stanford improved to 5-2 on the season.
Madi Kubik headlined Nebraska’s efforts, producing team highs in both kills with 13 (.231) and digs, tallying 15. Whitney Lauenstein added 11 kills of her own with seven digs and three blocks and two aces, and Lindsay Krause chipped in nine kills with two blocks.
Nicklin Hames had a team-high 19 assists, while Anni Evans put up 12. On the defensive end, Lexi Rodriguez and Evans joined Kubik in double figures for digs, with 13 and 12, respectively. Bekka Allick and Kaitlyn Hord powered the block game, with five apiece. Both players also had five kills. Maggie Mendelson had four blocks to go with a career-high six kills.
The Cardinals hit .211 as a team, while the Huskers hit .166. Stanford committed 23 service errors, the most by a Husker opponent in the rally-scoring era. The Huskers committed 14 service errors themselves for a total of 37 service errors in the match, the most combined service errors in a Husker match in the rally-scoring era.
The teams remained in step in both digs and blocks. Nebraska recorded 68 digs to Stanford’s 64, while…
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