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Sports Take: Slow starts, hitting woes spoil No. 20 Baylor volleyball’s late rallies

By Jackson Posey | Sports Writer

Live on ESPN for the first time this season, No. 20 Baylor volleyball lost its yearly grudge match against No. 8 Texas in a three-set dogfight, 17-25, 23-25, 24-26.

The largest-ever Golden Wave Band to perform at a Baylor volleyball game serenaded an announced 3,126 fans, the eighth-highest in program history. Six of the team’s top 10 Ferrell Center crowds have come against the Longhorns, including a record-setting 7,357 in 2019.

Early season hitting woes continued in the first set for the Bears on Wednesday night. Just eight days removed from posting a historically inefficient hitting percentage (0.