Texas volleyball has long home winning streak snapped in 5-set loss to Texas AM

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Add another memorable chapter to the renewed rivalry between Texas volleyball and Texas A&M .

In the third meeting in less than a year between the two SEC schools, Texas A&M scratched out a thrilling 3-2 win in a wild contest at Gregory Gymnasium that lasted more than 2½ hours. The setback gave Texas its first home conference loss since 2014 and snapped a 79-match home conference winning streak.

It also helped Texas A&M garner some vengeance for a 3-1 home loss to the Longhorns earlier this season, when the two teams played before 9,236 fans , which set a record for a volleyball match in Reed Arena as well as for any regular-season NCAA volleyball match in the state of Texas.

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Texas won a NCAA first-round match over Texas A&M last season and is in its first season in the SEC after 28 years competing in the Big 12.

Texas (12-4, 7-1 SEC) remains in first place in the SEC race while Texas A&M (14-4, 5-3) won for the first time in Austin since 2001. The Longhorns had their nine-match winning streak snapped and will have nine days off before hosting Missouri on Nov. 1.

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Madisen Skinner fired a season-high 22 kills for Texas in the 25-27, 25-14, 23-25, 25-21, 18-16 loss, and Reagan Rutherford added 13 kills. Both of those players ended the match with a .375 or better hitting percentage, but the other Longhorns had a combined 18 kills and 17 hitting errors.

Logan Lednicky, a former club teammate of Skinner in the Houston suburbs, fired 23 kills to lead all players.

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