Washington, an already young and inexperienced team entered last night’s matchup against the third ranked team in the country without May Pertovsky and Lauren Bays, two of their star players. Expecting a 3-0 knockout, Washington managed to bring Stanford to four sets, but the circumstances weren’t enough to bring them over the hump.
The first set started simply enough, but it wasn’t long before Washington found themselves down heavily to Stanford. This was dropped by a score of 25-15 and the combined efforts of Audra Wilmes who had the first kill at 10-10 did not provide the needed energy as Stanford’s hitting percentage climbed over .