WACO, Texas – Every volleyball point starts with the serve, and Washington’s serving was on point. The Huskies put pressure on Baylor by launching a battery of well-placed lasers from the service line, leading to out-of-system scrambles for the top-seeded Bears.
But even when the Huskies started a volley with power or precision, they too often found themselves on the finishing end of a Yossiana Pressley missile.
Pressley powered 24 kills to propel Baylor over the eighth-seeded Huskies, 25-20, 21-25, 25-19, 25-18, in the Waco Regional final in front of a delirious crowd of 3,008 on Saturday at Baylor’s Ferrell Center.