DRC Volleyball: NT falls to Tulsa 1st game of yr.

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Volleyball: UNT falls to Tulsa in season opener

08:24 AM CDT on Thursday, September 2, 2004

TULSA, Okla. — The North Texas volleyball team took the first game off Tulsa in both squad’s season-opening match, but the Golden Hurricane responded with wins in the next three games to claim a 26-30, 30-25, 30-25, 30-25 victory on Wednesday at the Donald W. Reynolds Center.

North Texas (0-1) managed to hit over .200 in Games 2 and 4, while the Golden Hurricane (1-0) rebounded from a sluggish start to record at least a .200 attack percentage in the final three games. Tulsa posted just one more kill than the Mean Green, but finished with a .259 overall hitting percentage in comparison to NT’s .190.

Led by Taylor Lawrence’s career-high 18 kills, the Mean Green had three players record double-figure kills. True freshman Katy Prokof tallied 15 and was followed by junior Brittney Gregory with 14.

Heidi Johnson recorded a career-high 50 assists and 15 digs to post her first career double-double. Gregory also finished with a double-double, adding 11 digs to go along with her 14 kills.

North Texas will get a one-day break before beginning play in the ORU Classic on Friday. The Mean Green will open play at the tournament against Oral Roberts on Friday at 7 p.m.