NU posted a season-high .408 hitting percentage while improving to 10-2 overall and 3-0 in the Big 12 Conference. Junior middle blocker Amber Holmquist tied her season-best with a .647 hitting percentage, pounding 13 kills and erring just twice in 17 swings. Junior outside hitter Laura Pilakowski posted 11 kills on a .500 percentage, and senior Nancy Metcalf recorded a team-best 13 kills while swinging at a .393 clip.

Husker setter Greichaly Cepero tallied 43 assists, three kills on a .500 hitting percentage, five digs and eight blocks in leading NU to a season-high .408 hitting percentage.

Baylor, which fell to 8-4 overall and 0-4 in the league, was led by sophomore Stevie Nicholas’ 14 kills.

“We haven’t seen a team that is that fast,” NU Coach John Cook said of Baylor. “They do a very nice job of taking advantage of their strengths, and they run a good system. But we are taller and a bit more physical, and we started blocking at the end of the first game. I was really happy with Greicha. I thought she distributed the ball well, and our hitters looked fresh tonight.”

Nebraska’s four-point lead in game one disappeared as the Bears took a 16-15 advantage after a 4-0 run capped by a kill by Sunny Nicholas. The score was tied three more times before an ace serve by Sunny Nicholas and a kill from Tisha Schwartz gave Baylor a 22-19 lead. The Huskers battled back, outscoring Baylor, 5-2, to tied it at 24. behind a kill from Holmquist and a block of Sunny Nicholas by Jenny Kropp and Cepero. Nebraska led 28-27 after a kill from Holmquist, but the Bears tied it at 28 and 29 with back-to-back kills from Stevie Nicholas. But Pilakowski answered with back-to-back kills of her own, sealing the 31-29 first-game win for NU when she slammed down a Baylor overpass.

Leading 16-14 in the second, the Huskers reeled off five straight points -- including two blocks of Stevie Nicholas by Metcalf and Holmquist -- to widen their lead to seven. The Bears never got closer than that. With the Huskers leading, 28-20, Pilakowski forced a game-point situation with a kill. Metcalf finished it off when she slammed a cross-court strike two plays later for the 30-21 victory.

The Huskers were never threatened in game three. NU led 12-2 early, as Metcalf reeled off eight straight points from behind the service line. Baylor pulled within five after two Nebraska errors, but Cepero followed a solo block of Laura Daniela Lloreda with a kill to give the Huskers a 22-13 advantage.

Nebraska will play its fourth match in seven days Monday, Oct. 1, when it travels to Manhattan, Kan., to face Kansas State (6-3, 2-1) in a 7 p.m. match.

Source: University of Nebraska Athletic Dept.

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