TCU Takes Down Oklahoma

Saturday, October 9

Fort Worth, Texas

6:30 PM

TCU

Oklahoma

10/9/2021 11:23:00 PM | Women's Volleyball

Box Score TCU vs OU Box Score

Dani Dennison set the program digs record in a 3-2 win over OU

FORT WORTH – TCU Volleyball (7-7, 1-3) exacted its revenge on Oklahoma (8-9, 2-4) with a 3-2 reverse sweep (13-25, 22-25, 25-19, 25-22, 15-12) in front of the 7^th largest crowd in program history (2,173) on Saturday night inside Ed and Rae Schollmaier Arena. Dani Dennison set the program record for career digs, finishing the night with 1,441 over her career.

"I thought this was a really gutsy win from our team," head coach Jill Kramer said. "We had our best crowd at Schollmaier Arena and it made a huge difference for us, helping push us at the end of sets. I was most proud of our team for bouncing back after the first two sets. We showed our fight, our belief in one another, allowing us to make personnel changes and still keeping up their communication and bringing the best out of one another."

"I'm very proud of Dani's effort over the last four-plus years," Kramer said. "I'm happy for her to get to experience such a large milestone on her home court, with her team, family and friends around her. A program record is a lot of hard work, sweat and tears that people don't see. It shows up in spectacular performances on the court. I'm really happy that she can leave here when her career is over with this record. Because she worked so hard to get there. I know it's because of a lot of people around her as well. The great thing about Dani is that she knows that too. If she were to reach that milestone tonight and we wouldn't have won, she would have been heartbroken. And that's what makes her special."

TCU NOTABLES:

Senior Dani Dennison set the TCU program record for digs in a career with 1,441, passing Calli Corley (2003-07). Dennison recorded 10 digs tonight.
2,173 fans were in attendance – the largest crowd at a TCU volleyball match since moving to Schollmaier Arena last season and the 7^th largest crowd in program history. It was the 18^th 2,000+ crowd in program history.
TCU's offense recorded 69 kills, the most the Horned Frogs have ever recorded against Oklahoma in the 26-match history.
Sophomore McKenzie Nichols finished with 55 assists, tying the program record for assists in a match vs. Oklahoma – a record set by Erin Ludeke on Nov. 3, 2004.
55 assists is a new season high for Nichols. She has recorded back-to-back 50+ assists matches for the second time in her career.
Nichols finished the weekend with 105 assists (10.5 assists/set).
TCU defeated Oklahoma after losing the first two sets, its first reverse sweep victory since Oct. 18, 2018 (vs. WVU).
Julia Adams led the team in kills, for the 7^th match this season, with 16. She has recorded 10+ kills in all four of TCU's Big 12 conference matches this season (3.17 kills/set).
Junior MyKayla Myers posted 14 kills and a team-best four blocks. She finishes the weekend with 30 kills and nine blocks (3.00 kills/set and 0.9 blocks/set).
Junior Afedo Manyang recorded 11 kills on .308 hitting. She has reached double-digit kills in three straight matches – the second longest streak of her career.
Sophomore Taylor Raiola led the team in digs for the second match in a row, with 11. She finishes the weekend with 33 digs (3.3 digs/set) the best defensive output over two matches in her career.
Redshirt Sophomore Madilyn Cole recorded a career-best six kills on .417 hitting and three blocks. She posted a team-best 11 blocks over the series (1.10 blocks/set).

HOW IT HAPPENED:
Set 1 (OU, 25-13): Oklahoma jumped out to an. 11-4 lead and never looked back as TCU errors and OU blocking helped the Sooners cruise to a one-set lead. Freshman Zoe Hall recorded her first kills inside Schollmaier Arena but .462 hitting and seven blocks from Oklahoma made the difference.

Set 2 (OU, 25-22): The Horned Frogs made adjustments to start the second set, allowing the offense to bounce back with .300 hitting, but Oklahoma's block still caused problems as Oklahoma won five of the final seven points to claim the set by three. Cole started the set after coming off the bench in the first, racking up four kills on five swings (.800 hitting) but the offense couldn't find consistency on the outside and OU took a two-set lead.

Set 3 (TCU, 25-19): The third set looked bleak at the beginning with OU jumping in front, 9-4. But Adams settled into a groove, sending powerful attacks down the middle of the Sooner defense while the Horned Frog defense extended rallies with a strong presence at the net and hard work in the back row. Taylor Raiola established herself in the back row, coming up with five digs in the set, playing all six rotations. She led the TCU defense that managed 15 digs, setting up Adams to wreak havoc on Oklahoma in transition. Adams finished the set with 10 kills, saving her best play for the final points. The Horned Frogs went on a 7-2 run at the end of the set, turning a 17-17 tie into a six-point victory. Adams was responsible for five kills in that stretch recording the final four points of the set by herself.

Set 4 (TCU, 25-22): TCU rode the momentum generated by the crowd into the fourth, going on a 6-0 scoring run to leap in front, 20-14. Dennison served throughout the run in her first run of serves since breaking the program digs record, putting Oklahoma in difficult attacking situations, allowing for Myers to dominate the offensive attack. Myers made a kill and a block in the run, along with a pair of kills from Raiola. Myers finished the set with a team-best six kills on nine swings as Nichols distributed the ball effectively throughout the lineup. Six Horned Frogs recorded kills, including the finishing blow from Adams to force a fifth set for the third match in a row.

Set 5 (TCU, 15-12): After a string of errors in past fifth sets, the Horned Frogs came out with ruthless efficiency this time around, jumping in front 4-1 with a potent and well-balanced offensive attack. Oklahoma fought back to tie the score, 11-11, but TCU rallied once again. Cecily Bramschreiber got the run started with an ace before Cole made a solo block to put the Frogs in front, 13-11. Nichols made career-best tying fifth kill of the match to give TCU a 14-11 advantage, allowing for Manyang to clinch the win win a kill two points later. Manyang led the team with four kills in the final set while Raiola and Dennison added four digs each and TCU won its first fifth set of the season.

UP NEXT:
The Horned Frogs will hope to ride this momentum into a road series with No. 1 Texas next weekend in Austin. TCU will play Texas Thursday, Oct. 14 and Friday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. inside Gregory Gymnasium. Both matches will be broadcast on Longhorn Network.

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