Sept. 27, 2006

Box Score

SAN MARCOS - Amy Weigle had a career-best 15 kills and broke a Texas State single-match record with a .737 hitting percentage, as Texas State defeated Texas Southern 3-0 (30-11, 30-18, 30-15) Wednesday at Strahan Coliseum.

The win was Texas State's second-most lopsided since the NCAA instituted rally scoring, as the `Cats held the Tigers to 44 scores in the three-game win. Texas State improved to 4-11 with the win, stopping a nine-match losing streak that dated back to Sept. 2.

Texas Southern (2-12) was held to .090 in hitting and had only 24 team kills on 89 attempts. The Bobcats hit .475 for the match, committing only four attacking errors. Jessica Weynand joined Weigle in double-figures to lead the Bobcats with 15 kills, and the freshman hitter also led the `Cats from the serving line with four aces on the night.

Erin Hickman paced Texas State at the net in her first action of the year at home, passing out 30 assists as Texas State totaled 52 team kills on only 101 attempts, while Ashley Stark added to the Bobcat offense with nine kills, two aces and a block to total 11.6 points on the night.

Weynand led Texas State in scoring with 19.5 points, while Weigle scored 16.0, while leading a group of five Bobcats at or above .400 in hitting percentage.

Weigle's record-setting hitting night breaks the .733 mark held by Kacee Rogers (2002, vs. Louisiana-Monroe) and Kristi Lindeman (1998, vs. Nicholls State), while Texas State's .475 mark narrowly missed its all-time record of .553, which was set against Prairie View A&M, but the `Cats

The match started with Texas State going on an 11-0 run, turning a 3-2 lead into a 14-2 lead midway through the opening game. Texas State held Texas Southern to only 11 points in game one, marking the lowest total by a Bobcat opponent since the 2001 season, when rally scoring was introduced.

Texas State extended its lead to 21-6 on a Weynand kill, and the `Cats went up by 20 on a TSU attacking error that made the score 28-8. The bobcats notched game point on a Karry Griffin kill, taking a 1-0 lead in the match.

Texas State played game two to a 12-10 lead before going on a 6-2 run to open its lead at 18-12, and the `Cats finished with a 14-6 game-ending run that included three kills by Weigle to go up 2-0 in the match.

The Tigers pulled to within one at 9-8 in game three on a Bobcat service error, but Texas State responded to the TSU threat with a 16-2 run, putting the game all but out-of-reach at 25-10.

The `Cats and Tigers split the final ten serves, as Texas State came away with the 30-15 game-three win and a three-game sweep for the first time since beating Texas-Pan American and Wyoming 3-0 in back-to-back matches on Aug. 25.

Texas State returns to the road and Southland Conference play Friday and Saturday, stopping in Huntsville on Friday to take on Sam Houston State at 7 p.m. before playing Stephen F. Austin in Nacogdoches on Saturday at 4 p.m.

The Bobcats return home next Thursday for the first of two inside Strahan, taking on Texas-San Antonio at 7 p.m. before a Saturday bout with Texas A&M-Corpus Christi that gets underway at 3 p.m.