BATON ROUGE, La. – The University of Missouri volleyball team (9-5, 1-2 SEC) fell to LSU (6-6, 1-1 SEC) in four sets (25-20, 14-25, 22-25, 19-25) Friday evening at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.
Mizzou grabbed the opening set, 25-20, recording a team-hitting percentage of .357 before LSU stormed back with the next three sets for the Bayou Bengals first SEC win in 2023.
FIRST SET (Mizzou 25-20, Mizzou leads 1-0)
The first set was a back-and-forth affair featuring 13 ties and four lead changes.
Kills from Morgan Isenberg and Dilara Gedikoglu provided Missouri a slight 10-9 lead.
Gedikoglu then added consecutive rally stoppers before an LSU Tigers miscue brought on the media stoppage with Mizzou up 15-12.
Janet deMarrais ripped a pair of kills to increase the Missouri edge to 18-15.
LSU would then knot the set at 18-18 before Missouri regrew its advantage to 21-19.
The Mizzou Tigers then claimed the first set, scoring the final four points (25-20) including kills from deMarrais and Gedikoglu to go with a solo block by Colleen Finney.
Gedikoglu paced Missouri in the first set with six kills on an .857 hitting clip. Finney (.750) and deMarrais each added a trio of winners during the frame.
SECOND SET (25-14 LSU, Match tied 1-1)
Missouri then jumped out to a 5-2 lead behind a 4-0 run to start the second stanza.
LSU responded with a 7-1 swing to pull ahead 9-6. The home Tigers then utilized a 5-0 run to increase their lead to 16-9.
Three-straight LSU points then put the margin at 19-10.
Finney would connect on a pair of kills down the stretch to…
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