The TexAnn volleyball team won in four-sets Tuesday night against the Dallas Baptist Patriots.

Tarleton State University started off the first set slow, and the Patriots took a five-point lead. A kill by Katie Covell, at 12-15, switched the momentum back to the TexAnns, and started an 8-4 Tarleton run.

The teams were tied at 19, but two consecutive errors by the Patriots put the TexAnns in the lead 21-19. Tarleton scored four of the next six points to take the first set.

Kaitlyn White helped with a kill and Stacie Murrah, with the set winning kill, added two more.

Tarleton quickly fell behind in the second set, and the Patriots had an early 16-6 lead. The TexAnns tried to fight back with a 13-9 run, but could not close the big DBU deficit. The second set ended 25-19 in the Patriots favor.

Going into the third set in a tied-up match, the TexAnns took a strong early lead. They had a 7-point 12-5 lead over the Patriots. DBU tried to comeback with an 11-7 run, but Danielle Barker’s kill ended the attempt. The TexAnns were able to get five of the next 10 points and won the third set 25-21.

The final set was close until 12-8 when the TexAnns went on an impressive 13-6 run to beat the DBU Patriots 25-14 and take the match.

Murrah had a notable 17 kills, which makes her 52 kills shy of becoming the seventh TexAnn to ever reach 1,000 career kills. White added 10 kills of her own.

Barker had 43 assists and 21 dig. She now leads the team with eight double-doubles. Klein led the team with 24 digs, and is currently the nation’s 16^th-ranked leader in digs.

The TexAnns play in the Pink Out game Friday at 6 p.m. in Wisdom Gym against Texas Women’s University.

Tarleton is now 10-7 overall and 4-2 in conference play.