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STEPHENVILLE, TX.- West Georgia fell in a hard-fought battle at Tarleton State Thursday night, stumbling in four sets. The Wolves would take set three after a 58-point second set falling the Texans way. The Wolves are back in action Saturday at 2 p.m., traveling only 96 miles east to Abilene, Tx to take on the Wildcats. 

SET ONE: West Georgia answered the Texans opening point right away. Brooke McCall would put down three straight kills, and Milena Cetkovic added one, making it 4-1 early. Tarleton State would answer back with a 5-0 to lake back the lead 6-4. The Wolves' response was their best stretch of the set, with blocks doing most of the work. Cetkovic and McCall teamed up for the first stuff. Two points later, Grace-Blythe Cornett and Maddy Kirmer combined on another, and Valiree Schmus and Kirmer added a third to make it 11-9 Tarleton. Schmus then served an ace to pull the Wolves within one, 11-10 Texans. Cetkovic and McCall would each smack a kill apiece cutting it to 18-14 Tarleton. The Texans would lead 22-17 when Kirmer put down another block, and Schmus served her second ace of the night, making it 22-19. Tarleton State would finish the set from  

 
SET TWO: UWG opened with a Maddy Kirmer kill and led 4-1 after two Tarleton attack errors and a service error. The Texans answered with a 3-0 run to tie things up at four; the set would stay close from there. Cetkovic kills would give West Georgia the lead at 5-4 and 7-6, and the next three straight would go to Tarleton. West Georgia would find the lead again at 20-19 behind two Cornett kills, and a Schmus kill, forcing a Tarleton timeout. Cetkovic would stuff a solo-block putting the Wolves ahead 23-22. Cornett would kill three straight giving the Wolves their third set point at 26-25. Kirmer would kill one to tied things at 27, and McCall's kill would tie it at 28 before Tarleton would take the next two to take set two. The Wolves would have three set points at 24-23, 25-24, and 26-25 in a 58-point battle that was tied eighteen times and had seven lead changes. 

 
SET THREE: Off a Tarleton State attack error, UWG would take the opening point. Tarleton answered with kills from Alyssa Dinh and Breannah Peterson, and the Wolves tied it at 2-2 when Milena Cetkovic got a solo bock on Dinh. A Tarleton attack error and an ace from Desha Van Veldhuizen then gave UWG a 4-2 lead. Another Brooke McCall's kill would make it 5-3. Valiree Schmuss would then put down back-to-back kills, 8-6 UWG. McCall added a kill to make the score 11-7. Tarleton State would answer taking the one-point lead at 13-12, but West Georgia would punch back with three of their own taking a 15-13 lead at the media break. The Texans would next cut the lead to one, four times, and UWG would take the next point each time, coming out ahead 19-17. Maddy Kirmer would kill one giving the Wolves a 21-18, then two Tarleton errors pushed it to 23-19. Cornett would take the final point for the Wolves, taking set three 25-21.  

SET FOUR: Valiree Schmus began with a service ace, Brooke McCall punched a kill, and a Texan set error gave UWG a 3-1 lead to open set four. Tarleton would then score six in a row, five of them with Leddy Rae Guinn serving. Adriana Medrano came in, and the Wolves got the next point back and Melina Cetkovic put down a kill to make it 4-7. Tarleton State then takes the next four of five points for an 11-5 lead and extends it to 16-8. A One Kirmer and Cetkovic kill, a Texan block error, and a Cassie Thayse service ace would pull the wolves withing eight, 19-12 Tarleton. West Georgia would then find a run behind three Texan errors, before allowing a 4-0 Tarleton State run to take the final set 25-15.  

Match Highlights: Brooke McCall ended her night with 14 kills, a team high for the match and her second straight match with 14+ kills. Close behind for the night was Grace-Blythe Cornett with 10 kills, this is now her fifth game smacking 10+. Cornett also stuffed four at the net. Maddy Kirmer said no to four tonight as well, now having blocked one in the past four matches. Melina Cetkovic added five blocks as well tonight, she now has 15 blocks in her pas three matches. 

The next UWG home game is Thursday Oct. 29th hosting Austin Peay at 6 p.m. Keep an eye out for more details for West Georgia Volleyball Trick-or-Treat game Saturday October 31 at 1 p.m.!  

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