Baylor
TCU
Baylor 6-0 With TCU Win
8/7/2000 12:00:00 AM | Volleyball
Sept. 8, 1999
FT. WORTH, Texas - The Baylor Bears volleyball team dropped its first game of the year but still came back to beat the TCU Horned Frogs 8-15, 15-9, 15-95, 15-2 in Ft Worth.
TCU (1-5) started off hot in the first game going up 3-0 before Baylor got on the board. The Horned Frogs extended the lead to 5-1 and never looked back on their way to a 15-8 win. That broke Baylor's school record of 15 consecutive game victories. Baylor (6-0) only hit .123, their lowest one-game total on the season.
Texas Christian hit .250 in the first game despite being out-killed by the Bears 22-18. The difference was that BU hit 15 attacking errors compared to four for the Frogs. The Bears and Elisha Polk got back on track in game two as Polk recorded a solo block on the first play and then tallied a kill to give Baylor a 2-0 lead.
They extended that lead to 5-0 before a TCU side out and an injury to BU senior outside hitter Kia Young halted the momentum. Young would return later in the game. After the game was tied at 5-5, Baylor got their lead back up to 9-5. The two teams traded points before Baylor put it away 15-9.
The Bears hit .242 for game two and once again out-killed the Horned Frogs 14-13. The Baylor defense held TCU to a .105 percentage for the game.
The Baylor front line of Polk, Young and sophomore Tatiana Kenon were too much for TCU in game three in a dominant 15-5 win. BU carried that momentum into the fourth game as junior Dana Atkinson served the first three points before a Frog side out.
That game was never in doubt as the Bears cruised to a 15-2 win to take the match.
Freshman Kristin Sheppard got her first career start at setter in place of the injured Dana Chuha. Sheppard made her collegiate debut against Belmont in the Arkansas State Tournament last weekend in Jonesboro Arkansas, when Chuha went down with a slight ankle sprain.
The current unspecified injury is separate from her injury in Arkansas. The current six-match winning streak for Baylor is the second longest to start a season in school history. The 1989 squad went 7-0 to open their campaign.
