SEATTLE – A match the Huskies seemed on the verge of grasping multiple times eventually eluded them. 15th-ranked Washington was upset in five sets by Arizona State at Alaska Airlines Arena in front of 2,462 fans in a match that went for two hours and 45 minutes. The Dawgs lost at home for the first time in Pac-12 play and are now two games out of first in the Pac-12 race with a 6-3 record.
Washington dropped the first set, 21-25, then rallied with a 4-0 run from down 22-24 to take the second set, 26-24 and tie the match up from the verge of being down 0-2. With that momentum swing, the Huskies then had a 24-21 lead in the third set, but Arizona State got revenge for set two, going on a 5-0 run of its own for the 26-24 win and suddenly the Huskies were trailing again.
The Huskies pulled away for the first comfortable set win of the match in set four, winning 25-15, and UW then had a 5-0 run to open up an early 5-2 lead in the fifth. But again the Sun Devils answered with yet another 5-0 run right back to take the lead. The teams were then tied multiple times up until 12-12 in the fifth, but ASU took the final three points in a row to finish the upset.
“There’s losses, and there’s failures, and they’re not the same, and we failed to deliver” said Head Coach Keegan Cook. “Not to take anything away from Arizona State, I thought they were outstanding defensively. Really put us in tough…
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