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Marathon match goes to HPU; Lopes fall 3 games back
10/21/2008 12:00:00 AM | Volleyball
HONOLULU -- Grand Canyon was able to come back from a 2-0 set-deficit, but wasn't able to win the fifth set, in a 3-2 loss at Hawai'i Pacific Tuesday.
The 2-hour, 25-minute match went to HPU by scores of 25-22, 25-17, 18-25, 20-25, 15-13.
The Antelopes dropped to 13-10 overall and 6-3 in the Pacific West Conference. They no longer control their own destiny in the race for a PacWest title, dropping three games behind league-leader BYU-Hawai'i.
They play BYU tonight at 10:30 p.m. It will be televised in Hawai'i by station OC-16. Locally, fans can watch the match on live streaming video at www.OC16.tv.
Junior Dana Edington (pictured) led the Antelopes with 14 kills and 16 digs.
Sophomore setter Katie Meyers had 46 assists. Frosh Laurann Durbin had 27 digs and four service aces, while junior Jenna Skadeland contributed six blocks and sophomore Brooke Baker had five service aces and 12 digs.
Senior Shauna Niemann had 12 kills and a .435 hitting percentage. Junior Whitney Estes had eight kills, hit .292 and had four blocks.
A pair of Baker service aces gave GCU a 15-13 first-set lead, but HPU rallied, broke a tie at 17-17 and scored eight of the final 13 points.
The Antelopes never got untracked in the second set. They trailed 5-0, 10-2 and 22-9.
Again, in the third, GCU found itself down early. Trailing 7-2, Niemann had three straight kills to help get the Lopes back in the game. Baker had aces on two of the next three points for an 8-7 lead. Edington had a pair of kills during a stretch that gave the team a 13-9 advantage. She finished the set off with a kill, too.
A pair of Edington kills gave GCU an 8-7 lead in the fourth. Niemann followed with a service ace. Later, Megan Toth and Edington had kills and when Meyers' serve wasn't returned the Antelopes were on top 13-9. GCU led as much as six, the latest at 24-18.
The fifth set went back and forth. There were eight ties, including 13-13, but the Lopes finished with two attack errors.
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