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Texas volleyball has long home winning streak snapped in 5-set loss to Texas A&M
What to know about Texas volleyball as it enters the SEC
The Texas Longhorns are in their first season as a SEC team. How good is the Texas volleyball team, and what does it bring to their new conference?
Add another memorable chapter to the renewed rivalry between Texas volleyball and Texas A&M.
In the third meeting in less than a year between the two SEC schools, Texas A&M scratched out a thrilling 3-2 win in a wild contest at Gregory Gymnasium that lasted more than 2 ½ hours. The setback gave Texas its first conference loss since 2014 and snapped a 79-match conference winning streak. It also helped Texas A&M garner some vengeance for a 3-1 home loss to the Longhorns earlier this season, when the two teams played before 9,236 fans, which set a record for a volleyball match in Reed Arena as well as for any regular-season NCAA volleyball match in the state of Texas.
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Texas won a NCAA first-round match over Texcas A&M last season and is in its first season in the SEC after 28 years competing in the Big 12.
Texas (12-4, 7-1 SEC) remains in first place in the SEC race while Texas A&M (14-4, 5-3) won for the first time in Austin since 2001. The Longhorns had their nine-match winning streak snapped and will have a nine days off before hosting Missouri Nov. 1.
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Madisen Skinner fired a season-high 22 kills for Texas in the 25-27, 25-14, 23-25, 25-21, 18-16 loss, and Reagan Rutherford added 13 kills. Both of those players ended the match with a .375 or better hitting percentage, but the other Longhorns had a combined 18 kills and 17 hitting errors.
Logan Lednicky, a former club teammate of Skinner in the Houston suburbs, fired 23 kills to lead all players.