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BATON ROUGE, La. — Wednesday was Arkansas’ third match in six days, and the Hogs still showed up swinging.
They beat LSU 25-20, 25-17, 21-25, 25-18 for an Arkansas volleyball win at LSU in Baton Rouge.
Parker Duncan put down 22 kills, and two teammates joined her in double figures.
The Razorbacks are 12-11 overall and 4-8 in SEC play with three regular-season matches to go.
They’ll stay on the road, too. Arkansas plays at Ole Miss on Sunday, Nov. 8, at 2 p.m. in Oxford, Miss., and SEC Network+ will stream it.
Smith and Laurendine kept it clean
Layla Smith finished with 12 kills on .579 hitting. Lakin Laurendine had 10 kills and hit .409.
The two of them combined for only two hitting errors.
Arkansas hit .317 as a team, its best in conference play this year. It’s the third-best number for the Hogs all season.
Kiki Remensperger had 45 assists from the setter spot. She also had 17 digs, good for her ninth double-double.
She and Aleki Alexander each finished with seven blocks.
That helped the Razorbacks win the block count 12-8.
Winning the dig battle
LSU came in averaging the second-most digs per set in the league. Arkansas out-dug the Tigers anyway, 69-61.
Four Hogs had double-digit digs, with Remensperger’s 17 leading the group.
Laurendine tied her career high with 16. Add her 10 kills and she had a double-double too.
Madi Benne added 15 digs and Gaby Cornier had 10.
In the fourth set, a Laurendine kill put Arkansas up 4-2. A block by Remensperger and Alexander made it 7-3, and LSU called time.
Duncan’s 19th kill got the Razorbacks to double figures. Her solo block was part of a three-point run that made it 13-6.
Finishing the job
LSU didn’t fold. The Tigers went on a 7-1 run and got within a point.
Smith’s kill gave Arkansas a little cushion going into the technical timeout, but LSU still went ahead 16-15. Arkansas called timeout.
After that, LSU made a few errors and Duncan kept putting balls away. The Hogs went up 22-18.
Smith and Remensperger had two more blocks together late, and Smith closed the match with a kill for the 25-18 win.
The Tigers’ lone set came in the third. They led 9-4 early and 15-11 at the media break.
The Hogs won a challenge to get within 16-14, and a Romani Thurman kill helped tie it at 17. Cornier’s ace later put Arkansas up 19-18.
LSU took the lead back at 20-19 and won the set 25-21.
Early control
Arkansas started the night on a 4-0 run that included a Laurendine ace.
Benne’s ace later made it 9-5. LSU scored five straight to cut the lead to 14-12, and Duncan answered with a kill to push it back to three.
Remensperger won a joust at the net to get the Razorbacks past 20. Thurman ended the first set with a kill.
LSU’s early errors in the second set forced a Tigers timeout at 9-5. Thurman and Alexander then teamed on a block to reach double digits.
Duncan’s 13th kill made it 15-10, and her ace later made it 19-11.
Thurman had back-to-back kills for an eight-point lead. LSU saved two set points before Remensperger’s kill ended it 25-17.
