DALLAS (SMU) – Freshman Hannah Jacobs scored a season-high 21 kills, and senior Brittany Adams recorded her third straight double-double with 15 kills and 18 digs, to lead SMU to a 3-2 win against Abilene Christian Friday night (25-22, 22-25, 25-14, 21-25, 15-10).

The Mustangs scored four of the first five points in the fifth set, and when the teams switched sides of the floor, SMU held an 8-3 lead. The Mustangs maintained the five-point advantage the rest of the set, with Jacobs blasting a kill for the win.

SMU hit .181 for the match, scoring 65 kills to ACU's 58. The Mustangs had 85 digs and posted nine blocks. Freshman Lily Heim finished with 30 assists and 12 digs for her first double-double, while Kendall Patterson had 25 assists. Montana Watts led the defense with 28 digs. Offensively, Meryn Kennedy finished with nine kills, and Lexi Nordmann scored eight kills with five blocks.

After ACU won the second to tie the match, SMU bounced back with a dominating performance in the third to win 25-14. The Mustangs hit .368 as a team in the set, with Jacobs and Adams each scoring five of SMU's 16 kills. Three straight kills propelled a 4-0 run to give SMU an 8-4 lead. The stretch was the start of 14-2 run overall for the Mustangs, giving SMU an 18-6 lead on the way to the win.

Abilene Christian overcame a 15-11 deficit in the fourth to win 25-21, forcing a fifth set. The Mustangs again broke a 4-4 tie with a run for a commanding lead, stretching it to as many as six, 13-7. SMU still held the lead late, 20-19, before the Wildcats went on a 6-1 run for the win. The ACU defense was the difference in the set, posting four blocks while SMU recorded just one. ACU also had 21 digs, while SMU tallied 15.

Adams and Jacobs led the Mustangs with four kills each in the first set en route to a 25-22 win. Adams went back-to-back early, giving SMU an 8-6 lead. Jacobs scored a pair of kills on either side of an ACU point, keeping SMU in front late, 17-12. Kennedy then went up solo for one of the team's three blocks in the set to make it a six-point lead for the Mustangs. ACU scored eight of the next nine points to take a 20-19 lead. After a Kennedy kill, SMU took advantage of three straight Wildcat errors for the win.

The Wildcats won the second set, 25-22, to tie the match. SMU took a slim advantage early, and maintained the lead until ACU scored three consecutive points for an 18-16 lead, its first of the set. A 4-1 run by the Mustangs, highlighted by two kills from Adams, gave SMU the lead back, 20-19, but the Wildcats outscored SMU 6-2 for the win.

SMU hosts LSU Saturday at 2 p.m. in the final match of DoubleTree Invitational. The Tigers defeated ACU 3-1 earlier Friday.