Volleyball Drops Road Contest to Tulsa

Friday, October 28

Tulsa, OK

7 p.m. CT

Tulane University

13-10 (5-6AAC)

University of Tulsa*

14-9 (3-8AAC)

Tulane

Tulsa

Photo by: Parker Waters

Oct 28, 2016 | Women's Volleyball

Box Score

Final Stats

TULSA, Okla. – Tulane came out on top in the first set of the night but was unable to capitalize on early momentum, falling 1-3 to Tulsa on Friday evening inside the Reynolds Center. With the loss, the Green Wave moved to 13-10 on the year and dropped to 5-6 in American Athletic Conference play.

QUOTE

"Tulsa played very well tonight. We were up in the third set but gave the match away because our offense never found consistency as a whole. That being said, I'm proud of Tea Juric, who really gave a great effort tonight. We have to have a strong team effort to win matches in this league, but we just didn't have that tonight."

--Tulane head coach Jim Barnes

HOW IT WAS WON

Tulane came out strong in the first set, defeating the Golden Hurricane 25-18 to start off the night after using a four-point run late in the game t gain an early advantage. After moving to 1-0 in the match, the Green Wave opened the second set on a four-point skid, trailing Tulsa until the Golden Hurricane evened the match at one win apiece with a 25-16 victory going into the set break.

Set three proved to be another battle at the start, but Tulane capitalized on multiple attack errors by Tulsa to pull ahead to a convincing 18-12 lead. However, a slew of similar Tulane mistakes allowed the Golden Hurricane to inch back into the game, as Tulsa would take a 2-1 lead on a slim 25-23 victory. Tulane looked to even the match back up at two facing a 1-2 deficit, taking an early lead in the fourth set of the night but falling behind as Tulsa took set four and the match, 25-17.

On the night, Tea Juric led the Green Wave offense, hitting .376 with 14 kills, her seventh consecutive match with ten or more. Freshman libero Kaylie McHugh led Tulane's defensive efforts with 20 digs.

UP NEXT

Tulane closes out the two-week long road stand at SMU on Sunday afternoon. The Green Wave take on the league-leading Mustangs at 1:00 p.m. inside the Moody Coliseum.