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Women's Volleyball

Strong efforts from TexAnn seniors lift Tarleton back into win column

Murrah leads in kills, Barker in assists, Klein in digs as TexAnns down Dallas Baptist in four sets

Emily Klein led the TexAnns with 24 digs Tuesday night as Tarleton defeated Dallas Baptist in four sets.
Box Score DALLAS - Tarleton volleyball got back in the win column Tuesday night with a four-set victory over Dallas Baptist, snapping the Patriots four-game winning streak.

In the opening set, Tarleton fell behind by as many as five points and trailed by four on several occasions midway through the game before a Katie Covell kill sparked the TexAnns at 12-15.

The Covell kill was the first point in an 8-4 Tarleton run to tie the score at 19-19 before back-to-back errors by the Patriots gave Tarleton a 21-19 advantage. The TexAnns ended the set on a 4-2 run with Kaitlyn White landing a kill and Stacie Murrah landing two, including the game-winner.

Dallas Baptist dominated the second set from the get-go, building a 16-6 lead early on. Tarleton battled and outscored the Patriots 13-9 over the rest of the set but could not dig out of the early deficit.

Tarleton handed the Patriots a taste of their own medicine in the third set, jumping out to a quick 12-5 lead.

DBU pulled to within two, however, and trailed 16-19 late in the set but Danielle Barker landed a kill off a pass from Emily Klein to snuff out the Patriot run and silence the comeback attempt. The teams split the next 10 points, which was enough to give Tarleton the third-set victory.

The TexAnns wasted no time in the final set, handing Dallas Baptist a 25-14 loss to secure the match. The game was close at 12-8 but Tarleton ended the match on a 13-6 run capped off by a Covell service ace.

After having her string of 11 straight double-figure kill games snapped last Saturday, Murrah started a new streak in a big way with 17 kills to lead the TexAnns. White added 10 kills of her own.

Barker recorded her team-leading eight double-double of the season with 43 assists and 21 digs while Klein, the nation's 16th-ranked leader in digs, led the team with 24. Kelsey Raglin and Lacy Hodges each had 13 digs also.

Tarleton will return home this weekend for a Friday night match against Texas Woman's at 6 p.m. in Wisdom Gym. Friday night is Pink Out night in Wisdom Gym.

QUICK HITS
- Of Barkers eight double-doubles this season, this is her second 40-20 game. The only other 40-assist, 20-dig performance came Sept. 13 against Western Oregon when she recorded 58 assists and 22 digs.

- Stacie Murrah is now just 52 kills shy of becoming the seventh TexAnn in school history to record 1,000 career kills.

- Tarleton improves to 2-0 against Dallas Baptist this season and has won six out of the seven total sets the two teams have played. Tarleton leads the all-time series 35-6.
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