ATLANTA – The No. 4 seed Little Rock Trojans fell to the No. 1 seed Texas State Bobcats Saturday evening after a hard fought, scrappy match.
Little Rock ends the season having collected 19 wins overall, the most since the historic 2014 season and doubling its win total from the previous year.
The Trojans and Bobcats combined for 30 ties in the match, 12 of them coming in the third set, with Little Rock's team constantly keeping themselves within a short reach of Texas State. Each team would go on small run of two to three points, scoring in streaks, but Texas State would find a way to pull away near the end of each set.
The Trojans made their stand in the third set, down 11-3 at one point, and go on an 8-0 run that featured
Taylor Lindberg serving. The run consisted of contributions from
Mya Robinson,
Maritza Mesa,
Veronica Marin and an ace by Lindberg. Knotted at 11, the two squads would trade blows, deadlocking eight times before a Robinson kill would put the Trojans up one. Texas State would even the score one more time, but a kill from Robinson and a Bobcat error would give the Trojans the game 26-24.
The final frame started similar to the third, but a 3-0 Bobcat run would break the 13-13 tie, swinging the momentum for Texas State to jump ahead 24-19 and then take it 25-23.
Three of the five senior's that played their last game in a Trojan uniform ended careers near the top of some incredible statistical categories. Marin ends her Little Rock career having had the best single-season hitting percentage in program history, hitting an incredible .401 this season, Lindberg is the Trojan with the second most assists in a career, handing out 3,037 and
Sydnee Martin's 1,414 career digs mark her second all-time.
