Aug. 25, 2006
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FORT WORTH, Texas — South Carolina senior outside hitter Shonda Cole ripped a school-record 37 kills Friday night in Fort Worth, Texas, but the match ended in a 3-2 (30-23, 30-26, 28-30, 26-30, 11-15) loss to the TCU Horned Frogs.
Cole made just six errors in her 65 attacks en route to a .477 hitting percentage. She surpassed the previous record of 32 by Lori Rowe in a 1983 match against Louisville. In the process, Cole also ascended to No. 6 on Carolina’s all-time list for kills with 1,127. She tallied 18 kills in USC’s first match of the day for a single-day total of 55.
“Thirty-seven kills in a loss; I hate to see that,” USC head coach Nancy Somera said. “It kind of shows that one person can’t win it for you. All in all, it was a really good competitive volleyball match. TCU stayed tough at the end and out-scrapped us. They dug 15 more balls than we did. We’ll be able to take some things away from that match and work on them to get better.”
Senior outside hitter Lynae Vanden Hull also was in double digits in the kills category for South Carolina with 11. Senior setter Iris Santos tallied 10 digs, while sophomore libero Dinelia Concepcion led the squad with 16.
The Gamecocks out-hit the Horned Frogs .289 (73-21-180) to .257 (77-31-179). Digs favored TCU 75-60 and South Carolina had 11 blocks to TCU’s seven.
South Carolina takes on Loyola (Md.) on Saturday morning at 10:30 and concludes the TCU Molten/La Quinta Invitational with a 6 p.m. match against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
