NCAA Womens Volleyball

No. 4 Cougars back on track after four-set win at UCLA

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LOS ANGELES — Fourth-ranked Washington State volleyball (18-3, 8-2 Pac-12) tallied 10 service aces as team and held UCLA (11-9, 3-7) to .191 hitting as a team in a 3-1 (25-22, 26-28, 25-10, 25-20) win on the road Sunday afternoon.  After WSU dropped a tightly contested second set, Pia Timmer led an offensive outburst with 16 kills between the third and fourth sets combined as the Cougars snapped a four-match losing streak to the Bruins after racking up another 56 digs and 12 blocks as a team.

Full recap coming soon.

WSU Match Notes

Julia Norville moved into ninth all-time in Washington State volleyball history, surpassing Keren Oigman (1994-97), with four aces to give her 118 on her career.

Pia Timmer moved into third all-time at WSU, surpassing Beth Welch (1987-89), with three aces to give her 136 on her career.

– Magda Jehlarova finished with six total blocks on the afternoon, moving past Kaitlyn Hord (Nebraska, ’23) for eighth all-time in

career blocks in the NCAA rally-scoring era (’01-pres.).

– Jehlarova also became only the eighth player in the NCAA rally-scoring era (’01-pres.) to reach 700 total blocks for her career, with her 700th blocking setting up match point for the Cougars in the fourth set on Sunday.

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