BOISE, Idaho (UNLVRebels.com) – The UNLV volleyball team returned to its winning ways with a 3-2 victory in come-from-behind fashion over the Boise State Broncos Thursday evening at Bronco Gym. The Rebels swung the momentum in their favor in the fourth and carried it through the fifth to claim the Mountain West match by set scores of 15-25, 25-19, 27-29, 25-13, 15-7.
 
With the win, the Scarlet & Gray has won 10 of its last 11 to push its overall record to 14-10 and its Mountain West mark to 10-3. The Broncos, on the other hand, sit 15-8 and 7-6, respectively, after their second five-set loss to UNLV this season.
 
Moments after falling behind 2-1 and hitting .158 through three sets of play, the Rebel offense became too dominant over the fourth and fifth sets. UNLV combined to hit .511 with a total of 25 kills against only one error in 47 attack attempts, with a .469 showing in the fourth and an off-the-charts .600 effort in the fifth. Boise State opened the contest with its best hitting clip, a .333 in the first; however, the hosts were held with a range of .097 (fourth set) to .234 (third) the remainder of the affair. Delving deeper, the Rebels threw down 15 more kills (68-53) off 15 more attack attempts (167-152) with only one more error (25-24).
 
Mariena Hayden and Shelby Capllonch paced the Rebels on both sides of the net with each posting a double-double off a combination of kills and digs. Hayden had a match-high 23 kills to go along with 11 digs for her 12th double-double of the season, while adding three aces and four blocks (three solo). Capllonch paired 17 kills with 11 digs for her 15th double-double of the year.
 
Alison French was a third Rebel to register double figures in kills with 12 off a team-best .400 hitting, committing only two errors in 25 swings.
 
Antonette Rolda and Lauryn Burt split setting duties with the former dishing out a total of 58 assists, and adding 11 digs and six aces. Rolda had 30 assists and eight digs, and tied a career high with five aces. Burt notched 28 assists and three digs, while chipping in one kill and one ace.
 
REBEL NOTES:
- The match featured a total of 17 ties and six lead changes, with the majority of both occurring in the third frame with 12 of the former and four of the latter. The first and fourth were void of both statistics, while the fifth only had two ties.
- UNLV has now won three straight in the series and pulled within four matches of tying the all-time head-to-head series, which Boise State leads 12-8.
- UNLV defeated Boise State, 3-2, in Las Vegas on Oct. 12, as the Rebels rallied from an 0-2 deficit against the Broncos.
- UNLV is 4-6 in matches that it has trailed 2-1 after three sets of play.
- UNLV is 6-4 in five-set matches this season, having won three straight that have gone the distance.
- UNLV is 6-5 in matches it has lost the opening set, going 4-1 in the last five occasions.
- Thursday's result snapped a stretch of five straight matches that UNLV had played to only four sets.
- UNLV's 11 aces Thursday marked the fifth instance the team has reached double digits this season.
- UNLV's 10 total team blocks (four solo/12 assisted) Thursday marked the sixth instance the team has reached double digits this season.
- Hayden had three aces in the match to bump her career tally to 209; thus, increasing her UNLV and Mountain West record number with each subsequent ace.
- Hayden's 11 digs give her 940 for her career and within 11 of tying Sekola Falemaka's 951 amassed from 2010-13 for seventh in the program's career record book.
 
UP NEXT: UNLV stays out on the road for a Saturday matinee against the Utah State Aggies in Logan, Utah. The Rebels and Aggies will serve it up at 1:00 pm MT (12:00 pm PT).
 
NEXT HOME MATCHES: UNLV closes out their 2019 home slate next week against UNR and San Jose State on Nov. 14 (7:00 pm) and Nov. 16 (5:00 pm), respectively. The Rebels and their intrastate rival, the UNR Wolf Pack, will rekindle their portion of the Silver State Series presented by IBEW Local 401 and Nevada Donor Network at 6:00 pm Thursday, Nov. 14. UNLV will recognize its outgoing senior Antonette Rolda in the final home match of the year against SJSU. Please note, the match time for the finale has been moved up two hours to 5:00 pm, with senior festivities to follow the conclusion of the affair.