Texas A&M volleyball hit the road this week for a couple of matches against the College of Georgia starting on Saturday, Oct. 1.
By and large, A&M won in five sets against Georgia at home in Reed Field in the 2021 season and has 20 all out wins against the Bulldogs. Mentor Laura “Bird” Kuhn expected an intense matchup during the current end of the week and arranged her group to seek after hard first contact plays to get Georgia out of framework unpalatably. The two groups were conflicting all through the match, and it boiled down to a genuine trial of expertise from the Fightin’ Ranchers. A&M at last tumbled to Georgia in five sets after much battle and ever changing play.
Georgia attempted to get into a cadence toward the beginning of Set 1, as A&M was steady toward the start and got the ball far from major areas of strength for the hitters. Play before long turned messy, bringing the two collaborates to a 10-all tie. A&M took a break after a long meeting finished with a hard block against graduate external hitter Caroline Meuth’s endeavored hit at 14-12 with Georgia in the number one spot. Meuth was named SEC Hostile Player of the Week on Monday, Sept. 26, for her exhibitions against Tennessee and Ole Miss. Sadly, Meuth couldn’t get into her depression this match and was reliably hindered at the net by the Bulldogs. Neither one of the groups moved forward to play in the main portion of Set
The Aggies started to float off in the set’s final part, and a few hostile blunders helped their rival out. Georgia took the primary set from A&M 24-13. A&M couldn’t answer protectively, and most of the sets were shipped off the outside to give Georgia an anticipated benefit.
Georgia’s neighborhood kegger went on in Set 2 with six complete blocks. Snapshots of tight play flipped back to more drowsy energy up to a 13-all tie. Green bean inverse hitter Logan Lednicky cut down additional legitimate swings and was obviously the hostile power in the initial two sets. A&M profited by one of Georgia’s more vulnerable serve-get turns and started to pick up speed, however at the set point for A&M, Georgia adapted to the situation with a thriving hit to tie it up 24-all. The maroon and white combat back and won 27-25 after close, extraordinary play from the two groups.
Redshirt junior center blocker Madison Bowser put down the principal kill of Set 3 to establish the vibe for the Aggies. Georgia played all the more demandingly this set and immediately pushed to 10 places. Tenderfoot Lednicky proceeded with her forceful swings with 13 kills into an A&M break. Unfit to get a balance in the set, the Aggies called their second break in Set 3 to refocus and remove the Bulldog’s 15-8 lead. Georgia wrapped up with a success in Set 3, 25-19. Lednicky got done with 19 kills and driven the group disagreeably headed into Set 4.
The group was on its feet in Stegeman Stadium at the 9-all tie after one more effective kill from Georgia finished a long meeting Set 4. Lednicky kept on playing with power and put down kill number 24, causing another Georgia break. A&M was near the very edge of reclaiming Set 4 at 21-18. Meuth had the option to somewhat straighten out her goes after this set by taking more offspeed hits and tracking down openings in Georgia’s court. A&M finished areas of strength for off a three-point run and two tip kills from Meuth to win the fourth set 25-20.
A fifth set generally gives a test a 15-guide cap and a prerequisite toward win by two. Set 5 was a trial of endurance and concentration from the two groups, and each point raised the expectation. Georgia played strategically by compelling its hits to the passed on side to eliminate Lednicky from the A&M offense. The two groups kept on pushing with the remainder of their energy to 5-all. The Bulldogs took the energy after a pro and block to close out the Aggies. A&M would not acknowledge rout and went on a five-guide run toward tie up the set 13-all. The Bulldogs emerged from their break on top after a block to Lednicky’s hit. A&M called another fast break to enjoy some time off before the Georgia serve.
The maroon and white at last tumbled to Georgia 15-13 after five difficult sets. Weakness was a variable during this match following two street games last week against Tennessee, not permitting a lot of opportunity to recuperate before the Aggie’s quick moving SEC timetable got once more. In any case, this game brought about a season-high 33 assault blunders from A&M.
In spite of the hard shortfall for A&M, Lednicky set a vocation high 27 kills this match and was the main impetus at the net, while Meuth attempted to bring areas of strength for her against Georgia. Kuhn answered her group’s hostile dynamic and the new kid on the block’s capacity to lift her play.
“It’s a difficult exercise,” Kuhn said. “Whenever you’re attempting to have a decent offense, it’s ideal to see Logan [Lednicky] move forward when her partners around her are battling. Surrounding, we simply should be more reliable by they way we’re contending and sorting it out sooner.”
A&M will face Georgia again tomorrow to wrap up the sets of matches on Sunday, Oct. 2, at 11 a.m. This will be a genuine trial of solidarity for the Aggies, with the second match in under 24 hours.