Lions Fall in Five to Cameron

Despite hitting .245 the Texas A&M University-Commerce volleyball team dropped a 19-25, 25-13, 14-25, 25-23, 15-12 decision to host Cameron on Saturday afternoon in Lawton, Oklahoma.

A&M-Commerce (22-8, 7-4 LSC) saw its four-match winning streak and stretch of five wins in a row in five-set contests end in the contest. Three Lions including junior Naomi Mays had double-digit kills but it was not enough. Mays had a match-high 21 and Alyssa Oberle and Terra Ousley each ahad 11 and 10, respectively. Perla Faudoa had a double double with 48 assists and 10 digs as well as four block assists.

Cameron (16-11, 4-7 LSC) was led by Nikita Abbott and received two double double performances by Lindsay Pazluk and Adrienne Lawson in the win. Abbott had a team-high 16 kills and hit a team-best .343 in the win. Pazluk had 14 kills and 11 digs and Lawson had 16 digs and 12 kills for the Aggies.

The Lions took the opening set by a 25-19 on the strength of hitting at a .212 clip. Cameron came back and dominated the second set to win by a 25-13 margin and at a .382 average as well as forcing the Lions attack to hit at a -.033 percentage.

With the match tied at one and following the intermission, the Lions answered in the third set to hit .417 and the Aggies hit -.037 as A&M-Commerce took a two sets to one advantage. 

Cameron came back to win the next two sets as they had just three hitting errors and hit .457 in a fourth set victory and .385 in the final set for the win.