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EDINBURG – The University of Texas-Pan American Broncs volleyball team fell to the Northern Arizona University Lumberjacks 3-0 to close out the UTPA Tournament on Saturday at the UTPA Fieldhouse.
 
The Broncs (1-6) lost the first set 23-25, the second set 19-25 and the third set 17-25.
 
Redshirt senior Maria Kliefoth earned All-Tournament Team honors after leading the Broncs with 18 blocks (1.29 per set) while also recording 28 kills (2.00 per set) on a team-best .306 hitting. She had 10 blocks in Thursday's opener against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, tied for the fourth most in a single match in program history.
 
Kliefoth had four kills and four blocks against the Lumberjacks (6-0). Junior Haley Durham led the Broncs with nine kills and four blocks. Freshman Mary Kate Clark had 17 assists. Senior Nausheen Merchant finished with 12 digs.
 
All-Tournament Team selection Sydney Kemper led the Lumberjacks with 10 kills on .529 hitting while Payton Bock recorded 10 kills on .500 hitting. Jensen Barton dished out a match-high 33 assists while All-Tournament Team selection Lauren Jacobsen had 11 digs. Isabelle Gosar finished with four blocks.
 
The first half of the first set featured back and forth play, with neither team going up by more than two until a block by Gosar and Barton gave the Lumberjacks a 14-11 lead. The Lumberjacks led by as many as seven at 21-14 after a bed set by senior Krysta Freitas, but the Broncs came back to make it close, pulling within 23-24 before a kill by Kemper ended the set.
 
The Broncs led 4-3 early in the second set on a kill by sophomore Alisha Watson, but the Lumberjacks responded with a 13-4 run to go up 16-8 on a Kemper kill. A Freitas kill and a Merchant ace jumpstarted the Broncs offense as they pulled within 18-22, but that's as close as they got.
 
The Lumberjacks led wire-to-wire in the third set, going up 8-3 out of the gate. The Broncs got as close as two at 12-14 on a block by Kliefoth and freshman Kyra Hill, but the Lumberjacks scored the next four points to pull away for the sweep.
 
The Broncs are back in action on Friday at 7 p.m. when they open up the LA Tech Invitational against host Louisiana Tech.

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