Volleyball: SMU at Memphis

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The Mustangs are on the road this weekend starting with a big American match Friday night at Memphis.

SMU (11-6, 3-1) is off to a great start in the American. The Tigers (9-7, 1-2) are off to a bit of a rough start in conference play will be hosting their first home American match.

SMU preview:

http://www.smumustangs.com/sports/w-volley/spec-rel/100913aac.html

Memphis preview:

http://www.gotigersgo.com/sports/w-volley/spec-rel/101013aaa.html

Go Mustangs!

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SMU takes the first set 25-13.

Young and Lozano with four kills each. Acker with 12 assists. Seven different SMU players with digs in the first set as well.

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The Mustangs with a sloppy start to the second, but SMU has battled back to a 12-10 deficit. Timeout Memphis.

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SMU holds off one set point but Memphis takes the second set 26-24 to even the match at 1-1.

Young and Bybel now with 7 kills each through two sets.

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The Mustangs off to a nice start in the third up 6-2. Timeout Memphis.

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SMU gets back to business and takes the third set 25-11! SMU now leads 2-1.

Nice balanced attack - Young and Bybel with 10 kills. Lozano and Stehling with 9. Acker with 39 assists through three. Heise with 14 digs.

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SMU finishes off Memphis 3-1 (25-13, 24-26, 25-11, 25-17).

An excellent performance by the Mustangs. I'm not sure if the team let up a bit in the early second since the first was so easy, or maybe Memphis had one good set in them playing at home, but the scores of the other sets are pretty indicative of how much better SMU was tonight.

Abbey Bybel ends up leading SMU with 15 kills. Caroline Young had 14. Maddie Lozano and Kristen Stehling each had 11.

Avery Acker finishes with 55 assists. Morgan Heise had 18 digs, and Acker had 10 as well.

Great win for the Mustangs tonight! SMU heads to Philadelphia to face Temple Sunday at noon Dallas time.

Go Ponies!

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SMU recap:

http://www.smumustangs.com/sports/w-volley/recaps/101113aaa.html

Nice win for the Mustangs last night. Louisville also won last night, so the current American standings are:

1. Louisville (5-0)
2. UCF (4-0)
3. SMU (4-1)
4. Temple (3-1)
5. Houston (3-2)
6. USF (2-2)
7. Memphis (1-3)
8. UConn (1-4)
9. Cincinnati (0-5)
9. Rutgers (0-5) - Have fun in the Big Ten!