by PULLMAN, Wash. — The Washington State volleyball team (11-2 overall, 0-1 Pac-12) dropped the opening Pac-12 Conference match of 2017 season to No. 7 Washington (11-1, 1-0) Wednesday night before 1,910 fans in Bohler Gym.
The Huskies won the match with set scores of 25-19, 25-18, 21-25 and 25-22.
Cougars junior Taylor Mims (Crow Tribe) led the match with 20 kills which equals her career-high, while junior McKenna Woodford added 10 kills for WSU. Freshman setter Penny Tusa had a double-double with 17 assists and 17 digs and Ashley Brown tallied 23 assists. Jocelyn Urias had eight kills, hit .375 and served two aces. Ella Lajos had six kills, hit.357 and led the match with seven blocks. Alexis Dirige added 13 digs and Claire Martin contributed five blocks.
The match had 28 tie scores, 11 of which came in the fourth set, and a total of 13 lead changes, six of which were in the last set.
In team statistics, Washington won kills (57-50) and blocks (14-12) while the Cougars out-dug the visitors 58-56. UW hit .222 for the match and held WSU to a .170 hitting percentage.
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Washington State (11-1) travels to Tucson for a Sat., Sept. 23, 6 p.m. match at Arizona (6-3* pending 9/21 match at Arizona State).
