WICHITA FALLS, Texas - Midwestern State had three chances to close out Texas Woman's University in three sets in Lone Star Conference play Saturday afternoon at D.L. Ligon Coliseum.

But the Pioneers staved off each of the match points and rode the momentum to their first win of the season by scores of 16-25, 23-25, 28-26, 25-19, 15-9 to improve to 1-5 on the season and 1-1 in league play.

The Mustangs (6-2, 2-1) appeared to be on the verge of extending a winning streak to five matches when Hillary White put down her sixth kill of the match to give MSU two match points.

But the Pioneers rallied with a Hannah Marshall kill and survived an MSU attack error to knot the score at 24-all before White delivered another kill to give the Mustangs another closing opportunity.

This time, TWU erased the chance with a Chloe' Tate kill then put the set away, then rode the strength of their outside hitting duo of Tate and Viktorija Jablonska to a five-set victory.

The duo finished with a match-high 17 kills apiece, while Tate was in on seven of TWU's 11 blocks as the Pioneers turned the tables after a very hot Midwestern State start.

The Mustangs committed just one error in a dominating first set while hitting .483 as a team, but MSU committed 35 attack errors over the remainder of the match including two sets with a .000 team kill rate.

Senior Miranda Byrd paced the Mustangs' attack with 14 kills and added four blocks, while fellow middle blocker Caitlin Wallace added 13 kills and three blocks.

Senior outside hitter Hillary White pitched her second consecutive double-double with 12 kills and a season-high 23 digs, while freshman Katie Bertling had 10 kills and 14 digs.

Senior libero Kaira Jordan led back row efforts with 28 digs.

Midwestern State hits the road for a pair of conference matches next week. The Mustangs take on Incarnate Word Thursday night in San Antonio before taking on Texas A&M-Kingsville Saturday afternoon.