RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – Greer Rogers turned in an 11-kill performance, hitting .304, Amanda Milnick dished out 27 assists and 15 digs in a double-double, while Meredith Darnell added 15 digs, but the Arkansas Tech Golden Suns volleyball team (8-7, 2-2 Great American Conference)was unable to ten blocks and virtually error-free play by Henderson State (14-2, 3-0) in a 3-0 loss to the Reddies on Tuesday evening at Tucker Coliseum.
 
NEXT UP

• Arkansas Tech returns to action on Thursday, Sept. 20, facing UAM in Monticello. A 6 p.m. match is scheduled.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• Henderson State jumped out to a 4-1 advantage in the opening set. 
• The Golden Suns fought back to tie the set at 8-8, and then pulled ahead 10-9 before the Reddies retied the set. 
• Tech scored six of eight points to jump ahead 16-12. 
• After Tech took a 17-13 advantage, the Reddies scored five straight points to reclaim the lead.
• Arkansas Tech rallied again to jump ahead 22-19 and led 23-21 before Henderson State closed out the set with four consecutive points to win the opening set. 
• The Reddies jumped out to a 6-2 advantage in the second set,
• Tech cut the deficit to one (8-7) after a 3-0 run, but HSU scored four straight to push its lead to 12-7. 
• Tech was able to again pull to within one (17-16) before the Reddies scored five of six to go ahead 22-17, and then later Tech narrowed the set to two (23-21) before HSU closed out the set with a 25-22 win to go up 2-0 in the match. 
• HSU scored the first six points of the third set and opened up an 8-1 advantage. 
• After the Reddies jumped ahead 11-3, Tech was unable to narrow the gap to less than five points and the Reddies held on for the match win. 

NOTABLES

• HSU outhit the Golden Suns .197 to .118. Tech had a positive hitting percentage in all three sets, hitting .171 in the second set. 
• HSU had ten blocks to Tech's six and five aces to Tech's three. 
• Tech had 37 assists to HSU's 34 and 59 digs to HSU's 57. 
• The 15 digs by Darnell and Milnick tied HSU's Courtney Bolf for a match-high.
• Milnick's 27 assists led all players. 
• Mackenzie Eford had five blocks (one solo, four assisted).
• Madison Grantham also reached double figures in digs with 11.