Hitting percentage? Check. Assists? Check. Digs, blocks and even points? Check.

On Saturday night, Iowa State beat Missouri in every statistical category but two, service aces and attack errors. Still, a feisty Tigers squad played well late in the second, third and fourth sets, propelling Missouri to a 3-1 upset of the No. 12 Cyclones (19-25, 26-24, 25-22, 26-24) in the team’s return to Hilton Coliseum.

“Each of the games that we lost were pretty close; it just shows you that you have to play well at the end of games,” said ISU coach Christy Johnson-Lynch. “We did not play well at the end of games. We had trouble getting good swings, and I thought we were tentative when it counted.”

The Cyclones (17-6, 10-5 Big 12) started out the match by holding the Tigers (17-8, 9-6) to a .026 hitting percentage en route to a 25-19 victory. Sophomore middle blocker Jamie Straube paced Iowa State with five kills in the first.

Missouri, who was on a three-match win streak, regained the momentum in the second set behind Julianna Klein’s eight kills in a 26-24 victory. Following the intermission, the Tigers were able to capitalize on four attack errors and two service errors by Iowa State to take an early 14-9 lead and hold on for 25-22 third-set win.

Iowa State looked poised to win the fourth set after jumping out to an early 8-1 lead behind three kills from senior outside hitter Victoria Henson. However, Missouri senior outside hitter Paola Ampudia skied high for 10 kills and helped the Tigers crawl back to a 24-24 tie and then hold off Iowa State for a 26-24 victory in the fourth set.

Ampudia took plenty of swings Saturday with a match-high 59 attacks as she led the Tigers with 22 kills and 11 digs. Klein and senior middle blocker Catie Wilson added 16 and 11 kills while senior libero Caitlyn Vann paced the Mizzou defense with 24 digs.

With her upper right leg heavily wrapped in an Ace bandage, Henson tied her season-high in kills with 24 while hitting for a .370 clip. Henson, who fell down her apartment stairs last Sunday, took off the wrap in the fourth set with the score at 19-18 in favor of Mizzou.

“It was just a little tight, I just took it off to make it feel better,” Henson said.

“She played like she’s 100 percent,” Johnson-Lynch said. “She wanted to play all the way around, and she went out and proved that she was capable of it even if she was a little bit sore.”

Also in double-digit kills for the Cyclones was Straube, who hit .290 with 13 kills and a pair of solo blocks, and junior middle blocker Debbie Stadick who notched 10 kills on a .588 clip. Senior libero Ashley Mass posted her school-record-tying sixth 30-dig performance, ending with 31, as she led four Cyclones with double figures in digs.

With 10 Cyclones seeing the court Saturday night, Johnson-Lynch and her staff have been trying different lineups to give the team an offensive spark.

Freshman Tenisha Matlock and junior Kelsey Petersen have been splitting time at the right-side position, and freshman Kristen Hahn has been able to give Mass a rest when she comes in as a defensive specialist.

“We can’t mess around much longer, and it’s not that we don’t know our lineup, it’s not really those things,” Johnson-Lynch said. “It’s, ‘Can people stay aggressive and be confident when the pressure is on?’ and I just thought tonight we folded under the pressure,” Johnson-Lynch said.

The loss draws upon a similar situation the Cyclones faced earlier this season when Kansas snapped Iowa State’s 53-match win streak over unranked opponents. Straube said the loss to Missouri is tougher to take than the loss to the Jayhawks.

“I think this one hurts worse than the Kansas match,” Straube said. “Just because I think that we’ve said things after the Kansas match, and I think we’ve said it too much and not done it enough, this one sinks in just a little deeper.”

Sophomore setter Alison Landwehr finished the match with 55 assists and tied her career-high with 13 digs. In addition to her passing and defense, Landwehr, who has 92 kills on the season, finished with six kills in a match that saw both setters attempting a number of dump kills to try to confuse the opposing team’s block.

“I think we were really looking for someone to step up and get a couple kills,” Landwehr said. “I was glad that I was able to do that, [I] probably should have done it a little more.”

With five regular-season matches remaining, including a rematch with No. 8 Texas, the Cyclones will have a few more opportunities to play in some close matches before the NCAA Tournament, which begins on Dec. 2. Johnson-Lynch and her staff will try to create some late-match situations in practice this week.

“You just have to try in practice to replicate that feeling and train that competitiveness and aggressiveness in them,” Johnson-Lynch said.

The Cyclones will be able to get in a full week of practice before traveling to Norman, Okla., to take on the Sooners at 7 p.m. Saturday.