The ISU volleyball team played its final match at Ames High School on Wednesday night, defeating Baylor in three sets (25-22, 25-22, 25-14).

No. 12 Iowa State (17-5, 10-4 Big 12) completed its season sweep of Baylor (12-12, 5-8) with a squad that was able to execute, despite not being 100-percent healthy.

“I thought we did a really good job of blocking the right way and putting our defense in the right spot,” said coach Christy Johnson-Lynch. “I was really impressed with their ability to stay focused on game plan and executed throughout the match.”

Senior Victoria Henson sported a medical wrap on her right thigh after pulling her hamstring in practice. However, this did not affect her play, as she etched out a match-high 11 kills.

“She was kind of a game-time decision. We just didn’t know if she would go or not,” Johnson-Lynch said of Henson. “She told me she was ready to go. I wasn’t sure if she should play or could play, but we decided to give it a try and we wanted to limit her out there as much as we could.”

Due to her injury, Henson refrained from digging throughout the entire match. However, she still managed two assisted blocks, adding one whole block to the team’s total of seven on the night.

“Even Victoria on a bad day is still pretty darn good with the numbers she tends to put up,” Johnson-Lynch said. “So I was really glad she could do some things tonight.”

Henson now sits just 40 kills away from tying Kristin Hugdahl’s all-time mark of 1,620 set in 1995.

Middle blocker Jamie Straube hit double digits in kills for the 10th time this season with 10, alleviating some of the usual pressure placed on Henson to produce offensively.

“I have that mentality of knowing that [Henson] wasn’t feeling the best, but I want to go into every game thinking I want to get as many kills as I can, I want to do as much as I can for the team,” Straube said.

Johnson-Lynch said she has been fiddling with the lineup, having moved specialist Caitlin Mahoney to the middle-back section of the defense, giving true freshman Kristen Hahn the spot at right-back that Mahoney is used to occupying.

“Kristen and Caitlin, I feel like they played awesome,” Straube said. “Caitlin is not used to playing middle-back. They’re doing things that they’re not really used to doing, but they just stepped in there with a great attitude and a good defensive mindset.”

After winning a close contest in set one, 25-22, the Cyclones found themselves behind by as much as six points before creeping back to within an earshot on the scoreboard.

A service ace by Mahoney notched the score at 12-12, triggering an opportune comeback for the Cyclones.

The Lady Bears were only able to tie the score once before the Cyclones took set two, 25-22, heading into the locker room at intermission.

The teams battled in an evenly contested bout to start the third set before Iowa State went on an 8-0 run to pull away down the stretch and find itself leading, 21-11. Straube’s final kill put the match away for the Cyclones in the third set, 25-14.

“I think Baylor may have just let go a little bit,” Johnson-Lynch said of the conclusion of the match. “They started making a lot of errors and let us off the hook. We were able to break them down passing a little bit, and once they started passing bad they started making errors.”

The Cyclones return to Hilton Coliseum on Saturday to take on Missouri. The first serve is set for 7:30 p.m.