Lady Vols Fall to Georgia

Sunday, November 3

Knoxville

1:30 PM

University of Tennessee

10-12,4-8SEC

Georgia

16-6,8-3SEC

Georgia

Tennessee

November 03, 2019 | Volleyball

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee volleyball team battled back to force a fourth set, but ultimately fell to Georgia in four (24-26, 23-25, 25-20, 21-25).

Tessa Grubbs led the way for the Lady Vols (10-12, 4-8 SEC) offensively with 25 kills, hitting .373 for the match. It marks her third straight match of 20 or more kills and seventh this season.

Lily Felts and Danielle Mahaffey also reached double digits in kills with 13 and 11, respectively. Felts has recorded double-digit kills in three straight matches and six of the past eight.

Sedona Hansen logged her second consecutive match of 40 or more assists with 46, good for her sixth such match this season.

Holding a slim 20-19 lead in the third set after narrowly falling in the first two sets, Tennessee closed the frame on a 5-1 run to force a fourth set, propelled by a pair of kills from both Grubbs and Mahaffey.

The Lady Vols once again fought back after a quick start to the final set by Georgia (17-5, 9-2), rattling off 10-3 run that erased a seven-point deficit and tied the set at 18 apiece. The teams exchanged points before the Bulldogs pulled away to take the set and the match.

From Coach Rackham:
On what she saw that she liked from the team:
"I think we had chances in both the first and second sets to win so I liked a lot of what we were doing, we just weren't able to finish when we needed to. There was just a play here or there that we needed to capitalize on."

On Tennessee battling winning the third set and battling back in the fourth set:
"Being down 0-2 and being able to come back and win that third set, I liked that and liked our team's resiliency there, but frustrated about the way we started the fourth set after winning the third. I thought we came out a little bit flat when we needed to have a little bit more focus and energy after winning set three."

On the message to the team heading into the final stretch of the season:
"We have to play another good team next week, so we have to bounce back. We have kind of a long week because we don't play until Sunday, but we have to go on the road so we're going to have to be able to clean up a couple of things that we saw from this weekend and get ready to play again."

Standout Stat

Tessa Grubbs is now just four kills away from cracking the program's career top 10. With 1,339 career kills, she is currently in a tie for 11^th place with Janelle Hester, and would pass Yuliya Stoyanova for sole possession of 10^th place with five more kills.

Match Notables

Sedona Hansen logged her second consecutive match of 40 or more assists with 46, good for her sixth such match this season.
Tessa Grubbs' 25-kill outing marks her third straight match of 20 or more kills and seventh this season. The match also marked Grubbs' sixth this season in which she eclipsed .350 hitting percentage.
For the third consecutive match, Lily Felts finished with double-digit kills, recording 13 on Sunday. In the first 11 matches of the season, she did not record a double-digit kill match. In the 11 matches since then, Felts has reached double digits in kills eight times.

Next Up
The Lady Vols go on the road to Tuscaloosa, Ala. to face-off against Alabama on Sunday, Nov. 10. This is the first meeting between the teams this season.

First serve is scheduled for 3 p.m. (ET) at Foster Auditorium. The match will also air on SEC Network+.