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Broncos fall on the road
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The Boise State volleyball team dropped their last two road matches of the season this past weekend to University of Idaho and Utah State.
BSU struggled against the University of Idaho, falling 3-0 at Memorial Gym in Moscow. Improving to 2-0 against the Broncos this season, the Vandals were able to pick up a 25-22, 25-16, 25-7 in the Saturday night match.
With the loss, the Broncos move to 6-15 on the season and 3-8 in the Western Athletic Conference while Idaho improves to 14-7 on the season and 5-3 in the WAC.
The Vandals earned dominating victories in sets two and three, but struggled in the first set to get going. Idaho had 14 kills in set one and hit only .071, but the Broncos struggled even more with a -.083 percentage and only registering four kills.
The Broncos were only able to hit six kills in set two and four kills in set three while Idaho knocked out 16 kills in set two and nine kills in set three to earn the three set sweep.
Overall Boise State tallied only 14 kills on the night and recorded a -.134 hitting percentage. As a team the Broncos earned five team blocks, an uncharacteristic number for the No. 12 team in the nation in blocks per set.
Boise State also earned 38 digs and had two service aces from Mandy Klein and Jeanette Jenkins.
The Vandals were able to rack up 39 kills and a .181 hitting percentage while also earning 11 team blocks, 56 digs and four ace serves.
Leading the Broncos, sophomore Alisha King tallied a team high of six kills, but struggled with eight errors for a -.065 percentage. Sophomore Sadie Maughan also added five kills, but also struggled, tallying five errors for a .000 percentage.
Lauren Hamm earned 10 digs on the night while Jeanene Rose added seven to the backcourt defense. Freshman Elizabeth Griffin had a team high of three blocks (one solo) while freshman Eliza Pledger had two block assists and Maughan had two solo blocks.
After going up two games to none over the Utah State Aggies Thursday night, BSU was unable to hold off the home team, suffering a 3-2 loss at the Smith Spectrum.
The Broncos earned two close 25-23, 25-23 wins to go up 2-0 in the match before the Aggies (8-13, 6-4 WAC) were able to pull off an upset turnaround with 25-18, 25-18 wins in sets three and four and sneaking past the Broncos in a 15-13 fifth set win to clinch the match.
The Broncos hit 50 kills and .168 on the night while registering 12 team blocks and 64 total digs. Utah State managed 65 kills and a .186 percentage to squeak by, adding 10 team blocks and 75 digs to their win.
The Aggies improved to a four-match winning streak over the blue and orange and narrowed the Broncos’ all-time series lead to a 15-12 record.
The Broncos have three weeks remaining in regular season play, including six matches, which will all be played at home in Bronco Gym.
Boise State will have a short weekend of preparations before they face Utah Valley Tues., Oct. 28 at 7 p.m.
They will continue this week’s action Sat., Nov. 1 in a 7 p.m. match against New Mexico State.
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