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CULLOWHEE, N.C. -- The Wofford volleyball team dropped their second consecutive five set match, as they fell to the Western Carolina Catamounts 3-2 (25-15, 25-18, 22-25, 20-25, 15-9) Friday night in the Ramsey Center in a Southern Conference match.
 
Wofford opened the match with a 4-0 run, only to have Western Carolina pull within 4-3.  Rachel Woodlee had a kill and block in the opening run.  The Catamounts tied the match at five, as they two teams would trade points, but Western broke a time at seven with a 3-0 run on a kill and two blocks t make it 10-7 Western.  The Catamounts extended their lead to 15-9 before a Wendy Burnett ended the 5-2 run.  Wofford couldn’t pull within five points as the Catamounts took the first set 25-16.
 
In the second set, Wofford again started off with an early lead, 6-3 off of kills from Kelsey Bagwell, Amanda Liguori and Taylor Baird.  However, Western Carolina would tie the set at eight, on kill and a Terrier service error.  Wofford took a slight lead, 10-8, on a Catamount service error and a Woodlee kill.  Again, Western battled back to tie the set, this time at 12 on a Terrier attack error.  After trading the next four points, Western broke a 14-14 tie with fours kills and a service ace during a 7-0 run to take a 21-14 lead.  The Catamounts finished the set with 25-18 lead to take a 2-0 lead in the match.
 
Western opened the third set with an 8-5 lead, but the Terriers would rally to tie the set at nine on a Lucy Reser kill.  Western responded with back-to-back points only to see the Wofford tie the set at 11 on back-to-back Burnett kills.  After Western went up 13-11, Wofford mounted a 3-0 run on an attack error by the Catamounts, a kill by Anderson and a block by Anderson and Baird to take a 14-13 lead.  Western took the lead back with a 5-0 run to go up 18-14 on three kills a Wofford attack error.  The Terriers rallied to tie the set at 19 highlight by an Anderson solo block, then took a 23-19 lead on two Western Carolina errors and kills by Tara Gough and Anderson.  It was a 4-0 run that gave Wofford the lead.  The Terriers held on to take the set 25- 22.
 
The fourth set opened with Western Carolina taking the first lead of the set, 6-4, only to see Wofford tie the set at six on a Reser kill and a Catamount error.   With the set tied at eight, Western mounted a 3-0 run to take a 12-8 run. The Terriers mounted their own run as they rallied to take a 16-12 lead highlighted by two blocks, a service ace and kills by Baird, Bekah Dorsey and Woodlee.  Western cut the gap to 22-20, but Wofford was able to claim the set with a 25-20 win to force a fifth set.
 
Western jumped out to an early 6-0 lead to start the fifth set before the Terriers got on the scoreboard will a kill from Burnett.   Western held on at the switch with an 8-3 lead, and would go on to take the set 15-9.
 
Reagan Styles came up one dig shy of becoming the first Terrier since 2009 to record 30 digs in a match as she collected 29 against the Catamounts, tying a career-high.  She has recorded 19 double-digit dig matches this season including her last 15 straight matches. 
 
Offensively, Anderson and Baird paced the Terriers with 12 kills.  Anderson had a team-high .407 hitting percentage as her 12 kills come on 27 swings with one error.  Woodlee added ten kills.  Dorsey had 21 assists and ten digs for her sixth double-double of the season, and Tara Gough had 15 assists and 11 digs for her first career double-double.   Anderson also had a match high six total blocks, one solo and five assists. 
 
Wofford (13-10, 2-5) had a .119 hitting percentage compared to Western Carolina’s .187.  The Terriers out-blocked the Catamounts ten to five. 
 
Wofford will travel to App State Sunday for its next match at 5 p.m. against the Mountaineers.
 
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