South Dakota State volleyball slipped to 10-10 on the season and 4-4 in the Summit League Saturday with a 3-1 (21-25, 25-23, 24-26, 20-25) loss to Oral Roberts at Frost Arena.
The Jackrabbits were led by a trio of double-double performances.
Crystal Burk put down 23 kills to go with 16 digs, followed by
Katie Van Egdom's 11 kills and 13 digs. Setter Raegen Reily gave out 45 assists and had 14 digs for the Jacks.
Burk moved into sole possession of fifth place on SDSU's career kills chart in the match. The fifth-year senior passed Minette Ridenour (1,415 kills) and has 1,422 kills in her career. Burk is also now fifth in program history in career sets played with 447, passing Ridenour's 446 sets played.
Ella Thompson notched 11 kills for SDSU.
Sydney Andrews and
Elyse Winter added five kills each. Andrews and Reilly paced the defense with three blocks apiece. Libero
Jadyn Makovicka put up 11 digs.
The sides traded points to open the match before a four-point stretch pushed the Golden Eagles out to an 11-7 lead. Burk tallied three straight kills to pull SDSU back within two at 17-15. Neither side scored consecutive points again until the Golden Eagles won the set with a kill and an SDSU error.
The Jacks bounced back to take the second set. Down 16-15, SDSU got four kills from Burk during a 5-0 run to take a 20-16 lead. The Golden Eagles responded with six straight points, then the Jacks finished with a 5-1 stretch and back-to-back kills from Van Egdom.
Van Egdom also opened the third set with consecutive kills on the way to a 3-0 lead. The freshman added two more by the time the Jacks led 11-6 and forced an ORU timeout. SDSU maintained its lead until a 7-2 run by the Golden Eagles gave them a 19-17 advantage. The rest of the set was tied five times before ORU recorded a pair of kills to end it.
Oral Roberts came out firing in the fourth set and raced out to a 22-8 lead over the Jacks. SDSU roared back with a monster 12-2 run capped by a Reilly ace but the Jacks could not complete the comeback.
ORU's Kaia Dunford paced the Golden Eagles with 16 kills and 18 digs.
NOTES
- Crystal Burk has tallied at least 10 kills in all 20 matches this season. She has 10 straight double-doubles and 17 total on the year.
- Raegen Reilly has nine double-doubles this season.
- Katie Van Egdom's 11 kills is a season high. She has two double-doubles.
UP NEXT
The Jackrabbits begin a four-game road swing at Omaha next Thursday.
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