DALLAS (SMU) – SMU improved to 6-1 at home with a 3-1 win against Memphis Friday night (25-23, 21-25, 25-15, 25-21).
Rachel Woulfe led the Mustangs with 18 of SMU's 64 kills.
Hannah Jacobs and
Alex Glover each added 14, and
Meryn Kennedy scored nine.
SMU (10-5, 3-2 The American) won the fourth set, 25-21, winning a challenge on the final point. Memphis was credited with a kill, which would have made the score 24-22. SMU head coach
Lisa Seifert challenged, claiming the Memphis attacker was in the net. The call was reversed, ending the match. The Mustangs scored three straight kills to take a 17-14 lead. Memphis cut the lead to one, 21-20, but Woulfe scored a kill after the SMU timeout, pushing the lead back to two. Memphis answered with a kill, but it was the Tigers' last point of the set.
Lily Heim tallied 54 assists, guiding the Mustangs to a .259 attack percentage. Heim also served four aces and had 13 digs. Freshman
Makayla Miller led the team with 15 digs. Glover and Heim each had four blocks, and
Montana Watts finished with 14 digs.
After Memphis (11-5, 0-5 The American) won the second set, the Mustangs responded with a 25-15 victory in the third set. With the score tied, 6-6, SMU went on a 6-0 run to take a 12-6 lead. The Mustangs pushed the lead to nine, 20-11, and a kill by Woulfe made it a double-digit lead, 24-14. Memphis scored a kill to get to 15 before Glover scored a kill on the second set-point chance.
Memphis got its lone set victory by scoring eight of the last nine points in the second, erasing a 20-17 deficit for a 25-21 win. Hannah Flowers scored kills on four of the last five points in the set, and finished with 13 for the Tigers.
In the first set, SMU edged past the Tigers, 25-23, to take the early advantage in the match. With the score tied, 21-21, Memphis committed an attack error. SMU then scored on a block and a kill by Glover, with an SMU service error in the middle. Memphis fought off the first set-point attempt, but Jacobs ended it with a smash, giving SMU the 25-23 win.
The Mustangs play at USF Sunday at 12 p.m. ET/11 a.m. CT. The match is the first cross-division competition for SMU.
