CANYON – Angelo State's comeback attempt from a two-set deficit to start the match ended in a 3-2 (25-23, 25-13, 19-25, 23-25, 15-13) Lone Star Conference loss to No. 5 West Texas A&M on Saturday at “The Box”.

The No. 11 Belles (13-3, 6-1 LSC) saw their eight-match winning streak end and the Lady Buffs (14-2, 5-1 LSC) extend their winning streak over ASU to 15 straight matches.

“We left everything on the court,” ASU junior Maddie Huth said. “They are a very good team and it's a hard place to play at, but we never gave up. We weren't playing our best in the first two games and it was good to see that we came together in the final games even though we weren't able to get the win.”

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Alex Woolsey recorded a career-high 71 assists and added 14 digs, while Shelbi Goode recorded a career-high 29 kills. Huth added a season-high 18 kills and Shelby Wilt 28 digs. Kaelen Valdez contributed 17 digs and 10 kills, while Huth led the Belles with four blocks.

“Maddie and Shelby were really explosive for us today,” ASU head coach Chuck Waddington said. “Our defense did a great job after the first two sets and made a lot of improvements. We can't give away two sets like that though. We were scattered in those first two sets and thinking as individuals. Sets three, four and five were came together as a team and it showed.”

Woolsey's previous career high in assists was 60 in last year's match at WT. The Belles were outblocked 15-6 in the match and finished with a team hitting percentage of .231 compared to WT's .277. The senior setter now has 4,302 assists in her career at Angelo State, while Huth is only 15 kills from 500 and 11 blocks from 200 in her career.

WT, which was dealt its first LSC loss since 2005 on Friday in a defeat to Tarleton State, has still not lost to ASU in Canyon since 1993. Stormi Lancaster and Kameryn Hayes led the Lady Buffs with 19 kills each, while Lacy Hayes had 61 assists. Lauren Beville led WT with 22 digs with Hayes adding 15 more digs.

Angelo State returns to action at 7 p.m. on Tuesday at Tarleton State before hosting Texas Woman's on Friday and Texas A&M-Commerce on Saturday. ASU will host WT on Friday, Oct. 26 at 7 p.m. in the regular-season rematch.