EUGENE, Ore. – Despite Madelyn Robinson’s career-high 28 kills Friday night, Utah Volleyball fell in four sets to the No. 20-ranked Oregon Ducks at Matthew Knight Arena in Eugene, Ore. Robinson upped her previous career high by two kills this evening to collect her fourth match of 20 or more kills this season.
Robinson posted six kills in each of the first two sets with just two hitting errors, while she posted seven kills in the third set and a whopping nine kills in the final frame. She finished the match with a .311 hitting percentage.
Oregon put the pressure on Utah early in the opening set. The Utes struggled to find rhythm on serve receive and as a result, could not find a groove offensively either. Oregon built a 9-4 lead before Utah would use its first timeout, but a 7-1 run later on would set Utah back 17-7, forcing the Utes to burn their final timeout of the frame. Madelyn Robinson ended the scoring drought and began what led on to be a 7-2 run for the Utes, which cut the score to just 19-14. Three consecutive points from the Ducks pushed the Utes behind eight points to maintain the large lead and eventually take a 25-17 victory in the first set.
Utah limited the large run from Oregon in the second set and instead went back and forth from start to finish as the frame saw 11 tied scores. The Utes took a 7-6 lead after scoring four of five points early on, and from there the two teams had little separation….
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