As picnic-lunch volleyball matches go, Saturday’s proved pretty tasty for University of New Mexico fans.
The host Lobos pulled off one of the biggest surprises of the Mountain West season, handing first-place Colorado State a four-set defeat and snapping the Rams’ seven-match winning streak. UNM earned its first home win over CSU since 2012 with a decisive 25-16, 25-22, 22-25, 25-14 victory at Johnson Center. The Rams had won 15 of the previous 16 meetings.
Better still for Lobos, they avenged their most lopsided loss of the season, a quick and painful 3-0 sweep Oct. 14 in Fort Collins that kicked off an 0-2 road trip to CSU and Wyoming.