Utah Utes volleyball: No. 2 UCLA too much for Utes

By Mike DeVine

For the Deseret News

Published: Friday, Sept. 30 2011 9:49 p.m. MDT

Summary

Sophomore outside hitter Morgan Odale registered her third double-double of the season but the University of Utah volleyball team lost a three-set decision to No. 2 UCLA (12-25, 20-25, 17-25) in a Pac-12 Conference match Friday at Crimson Court.

No. 2 UCLA (12-2, 5-1 Pac-12) received a match-high 18 kills from Rachael Kidder and Lainey Gera was credited with a match-high 13 digs.

“UCLA doesn’t make a lot of mistakes and they battle for every point,” Launiere said. “If you give up some unforced errors, you’re going to get behind real fast. In sets one and three, we made more errors and in Set 2, we played a pretty clean game so we were able to stay with them.”

The Utes conclude their inaugural Pac-12 homestand Sunday against No. 5 USC. First serve is set for 2 p.m. MT. A live stream of the match can be viewed at http://utahutes.cstv.com/allaccess/?media=259526.

Mike DeVine is an assistant athletic communications director for the

University of Utah

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