No. 17 Cougars down No. 10 Horned Frogs in four

FORT WORTH, Texas — No. 17 BYU women’s volleyball earned a four-set win at No. 10 TCU (25-21, 25-19, 19-25, 25-23) at Schollmaier Arena on Saturday afternoon.

BOX SCORE

The Cougars (17-4, 5-4 Big 12) snapped the Horned Frogs’ 18-match home win streak, hitting .237 to their .207 and were led by Suli Davis’ 20-kill, 10-dig double double, her fourth of the year.

Davis was joined in double figures by Sophia Callahan, who had a career-high 15 kills on a .365 clip, and Brielle Kemavor’s 11, hitting .348. It is just the fourth time this season that BYU has had three hitters with double-digit kills.

Alex Bower dished out 46 assists and was a dig shy of a double-double of her own. Lulu Ululave added 10 digs as well, with Claire Little Chambers contributing eight.

Kemavor finished with a match-high eight blocks while Bower posted three. Callahan, Little Chambers and Elli Mortensen each had two.

Set 1
BYU forced a TCU timeout at 11-7 after a pair of 3-0 runs that both featured double blocks, a Davis kill and Horned Frog error. Abby Hoybjerg, Little Chambers and Kemavor each landed kills with the Cougar advantage at 15-10.

Kemavor scored two more times before kills by Davis and Hoybjerg as well as another TCU error put BYU in front, 20-16, forcing the Frogs’ second timeout. TCU took four of the next five points, however, and the Cougars called timeout.

After a Horned Frog ace cut the lead to 22-21, BYU closed the set on a 3-0 run with a Little Chambers kill and block before a Kemavor overpass kill for a 25-21 win. The Cougars hit .407 in the opener, holding TCU to a .194 clip.

Set 2
Trading points early, a 4-0 run capped off by consecutive Little Chambers aces gave BYU a 7-5 lead. Another 4-0 span by the Cougars, featuring kills by Callahan and Davis, forced a TCU timeout ahead 13-10.

Trading points from there, BYU maintained its four-point advantage through 17-13. Responding to a 3-0 Horned Frog run with three of its own, back-to-back Davis kills before a back row Little Chambers hammer forced another Frog timeout leading 20-16.

Another pair of Davis kills, along with a Callahan shot down the line gave the Cougars set point, and after trading service errors, they would take a commanding 2-0 lead in the match, 25-19.

Set 3
Callahan, Little Chambers and Kemavor each tallied kills as the two teams went back-and-forth to begin the third. Kemavor and Bower teamed up for double block to cap off a 3-0 run, but TCU responded with four straight, including three on BYU attack errors, to lead 15-12 at the media timeout.

Trading points once more, the Cougars called timeout trailing 17-14. Bower swung away for a kill, but BYU used its second timeout at 19-15. Drawing within two on a Kemavor-Little Chambers double block, the Frogs then reeled off four in a row to win the set, 25-19.

Set 4
The fourth frame saw eight ties and two lead changes before the media timeout, where TCU led 15-13, with Callahan’s six kills in the set pacing BYU in the early going. After consecutive kills by the Frogs, the Cougars took their first timeout.

Davis and Kemavor kills sandwiched a double block by the duo, and two more Davis kills had BYU within two, at 20-18. Consecutive Mortensen kills then forced a TCU timeout down by one, 21-20.

Three-straight from the Cougars, including two double blocks involving Kemavor, flipped the script and forced the Frogs’ second timeout. A Callahan kill got BYU match point, and a Kemavor-Mortensen double block finished things off a play later for the 25-23 win.

Up Next
The Cougars will return home for a pair of matches against UCF and Kansas State on Wednesday and Friday next week.