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Box Score 2 DALLAS – The ACU Wildcats battled one of the nation's top teams for three sets, but 17th-ranked Arizona was too much for ACU to handle as Arizona walked out of SMU's Moody Coliseum with a 3-0 win over ACU in the Crosstown Classic.
ACU completed its run in the tournament with an 0-3 mark after losing to TCU in Fort Worth on Friday, UTEP in Fort Worth on Saturday morning and to Arizona early Saturday evening at SMU's Moody Coliseum. ACU is now 0-3 on the season after the pair of losses Saturday.
The Wildcats are back in action next weekend (Sept. 4-5) at the Texas A&M Invitational in College Station where they will play Wichita State (Friday) and both New Mexico State and Texas A&M on Saturday.
Arizona – which went 3-0 in its tournament stay in Texas – needed just 70 minutes to knock off the Wildcats as it won the match, 25-13, 25-16, 25-12. Arizona had 37 kills against just 13 attack errors (.273 hitting percentage), while the Wildcats had 22 kills and 20 attack errors (.022 hitting percentage).
Arizona was led by Nikki Attea's 10 kills and Penina Snuka's 24 assists, wh lie ACU was led by six kills from freshman
Corinne Grandcolas.
Saturday morning, the Wildcats and Miners engaged in a tense four-set match that saw them split the first two sets before UTEP pulled away by winning the final two matches. The Miners won the match by the scores of 26-24, 27-29, 25-22 and 25-20.
ACU had 64 kills in four sets, its most since it posted 67 last year in a 3-2 loss at Northwestern State (La.) on Oct. 2, and its third-highest total in the program's last three-plus season (87 matches). The most kills ACU has in that span are 74, which came in a 3-2 loss to Dallas Baptist on Oct. 9, 2012.
The Wildcats' 197 attempts mark their 10th-highest number of attempts in a match since the the 2007 season, but their 43 errors are the program's second-highest total since 2007 (44 vs. Central Oklahoma on Oct. 27, 2007).
ACU had leads in each of the first three sets (14-7 in the first set, 7-4 in the second set and 11-5 in the third set), but could only pull out a win in the second set. ACU was undone by 11 attack errors in the first set and 12 attack errors in both the third and fourth sets.
Kendall Bosse led the Wildcats with 15 kills and a .297 attack percentage, while senior Jenny Loerche had 13 kills (15 errors) and
Lauren Walker added 12 kills and just four errors.
The Miners out-blocked ACU 11.5-7.0 and out-hit the Wildcats, .162-.107. UTEP also only had 16 attack errors on 148 swings and came up with 40 kills.
