Cougars Fall in Five to Utes at Home

PROVO -- After five hard-fought sets, BYU’s women’s volleyball team (10-10, 5-4) lost to its in-state rival Utah (14-7, 7-2) in front of an electrifying season-high crowd of 2,249 fans, 25-19, 28-26, 25-23, 15-25, 6-15.

“We were good enough with the group we had, but we lost composure and couldn’t bounce back,” BYU head coach Shay Goulding said. “Utah played a fantastic game the last half.”

The Cougars were led by outside hitter Christie Carpenter with 17 kills, followed by Camilla Phillips who tallied a career high nine kills. Nicole Warner and Christina Measom both finished off the night with eight kills.

Morgan Lloyd Sorensen tied her career high of 24 digs, making this the fourth-straight match with double-digit digs, and Melissa Lake Wright came away with 12 digs, her second-straight match with double-digit digs as well.

The game started with set one going back and forth, but BYU rallied on offense to take the lead and finish the set. Utah came back in the second set with back-to-back unanswered point runs as the taking an early lead. After a brief timeout, the Cougars bounced back with several defensive stands and a nine-point run of their own to take back the lead and kept it until the end.

In the last half of the match, BYU continued to play well, but fell to the Utes three sets in a row.

The Cougars return to the Smith Fieldhouse next Tuesday, October 27, at 5 p.m. to take on the Utah Valley University Wolverines.

Volleyball Box Score
                           BYU Cougar Volleyball 2009
               Utah vs BYU Cougars (Oct 23, 2009 at Provo, Utah)
   Utah                   |     ATTACK      |SET| SERVE |SRV|DEF|  BLOCK |GEN
## Name                 SP|  K   E  TA   PCT|  A| SA  SE| RE|DIG|BS BA BE|BHE|POINTS
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6  SANDBERG, Chelsey...  5| 11   2  22  .409|  0|  0   4|  0|  1| 0  3  0|  0|  12.5
9  KILLPACK, Danielle..  5|  5   2  12  .250|  0|  0   0|  1|  1| 0  2  0|  0|   6.0
10 BARTKOWIAK, Karolina  5| 16   7  40  .225|  2|  3   2|  0| 11| 0  1  0|  0|  19.5
13 SILVA, Cinthia......  5|  8   6  39  .051|  0|  2   3|  3|  6| 0  2  0|  0|  11.0
14 SIMMONS, Abby.......  5|  0   0   0  .000| 24|  0   3|  0| 14| 0  0  1|  0|   0.0
16 HIBBERT, Sarah......  5| 10   6  31  .129|  0|  0   0|  0|  6| 0  1  0|  0|  10.5
2  NEELEY, Stephanie...  5|  0   1   2 -.500| 28|  1   2|  0|  5| 0  0  0|  0|   1.0
4  CRUMP, Corinne......  3|  0   0   0  .000|  0|  1   0|  0|  3| 0  0  0|  0|   1.0
7  LANTING, Jennifer...  5|  9   3  20  .300|  0|  0   0|  0|  0| 1  2  1|  0|  11.0
11 FISHER, Keisha......  5|  0   0   2  .000|  2|  2   1|  1| 18| 0  0  0|  0|   2.0
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   Totals..............  5| 59  27 168  .190| 56|  9  15|  5| 65| 1 11  2|  0|  74.5
 TEAM ATTACK PER SET                                            TOTAL TEAM BLOCKS: 6.5
 Set   K  E  TA   Pct Sideout Pct
   1   9  7  41  .049  13-24  54%   SET SCORES                1  2  3  4  5  TEAM RECORDS
   2  15  6  39  .231  14-28  50%   Utah................ (3) 19 26 25 25 15  14-7; 7-2; MWC
   3  14  8  35  .171  16-23  69%   BYU Cougars......... (2) 25 28 23 15  6  10-10; 5-4; MWC
   4  13  4  31  .290  10-16  62%
   5   8  2  22  .273   6-6  100%
   BYU Cougars            |     ATTACK      |SET| SERVE |SRV|DEF|  BLOCK |GEN
## Name                 SP|  K   E  TA   PCT|  A| SA  SE| RE|DIG|BS BA BE|BHE|POINTS
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7  MEASOM, Christina...  5|  8   5  25  .120|  0|  0   0|  0|  0| 2  5  0|  0|  12.5
9  ROGERS, Kiana.......  5|  3   1   7  .286| 38|  0   1|  0| 12| 0  4  0|  0|   5.0
10 PHILLIPS, Camilla...  5|  9   6  34  .088|  0|  0   0|  1|  0| 0  1  1|  0|   9.5
14 CARPENTER, Christie.  5| 17  10  57  .123|  0|  1   3|  2|  5| 0  2  2|  0|  19.0
15 WARNER, Nicole......  5|  8   3  21  .238|  0|  0   2|  0|  1| 0  2  2|  0|   9.0
16 LAU, Stephanie......  5|  4   3  15  .067|  1|  0   0|  0|  2| 0  0  0|  0|   4.0
1  LLOYD SORENSEN, Morg  5|  0   0   0  .000|  3|  2   4|  3| 24| 0  0  0|  0|   2.0
2  HANNEMANN, Heather..  1|  0   1   1-1.000|  0|  0   0|  0|  0| 0  0  0|  1|   0.0
6  GOODSELL, Chelsea...  5|  0   0   0  .000|  1|  1   0|  2| 13| 0  0  0|  0|   1.0
11 LAKE WRIGHT, Melissa  5|  0   0   1  .000|  3|  1   1|  1| 12| 0  0  0|  0|   1.0
13 SAGERS, Lauren......  1|  0   0   0  .000|  0|  0   0|  0|  0| 0  0  0|  0|   0.0
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   Totals..............  5| 49  29 161  .124| 46|  5  11|  9| 69| 2 14  5|  1|  63.0
 TEAM ATTACK PER SET                                            TOTAL TEAM BLOCKS: 9.0
 Set   K  E  TA   Pct Sideout Pct
   1  15  6  37  .243  14-20  69%   Site: Provo, Utah (Smith Fieldhouse)
   2  15  6  40  .225  14-26  53%   Date: Oct 23, 2009   Attend: 2249   Time: 2H 17M
   3  10  6  29  .138  16-25  63%   Referees: ERIC ASAMI, DAPHNE NELSON, KAREN MARSHALL;MF;JR
   4   5  6  28 -.036   9-24  37%
   5   4  5  27 -.037   6-15  40%
                                         1   2   3   4   5 Total
                        Tie scores       7  11   8   2   3    31
                        Lead changes     1   7   2   0   0    10