Creighton grad Taryn Kloth and teammate Kristen Nuss posted a victory to close out play in Pool B in beach volleyball with a come-from-behind 2-1 win over China’s Xue Chen and Xia Xinyi on Thursday evening at the Paris Olympics.
The match was stalled by a 66-minute rain delay in the third set with Kloth/Nuss leading 3-2.
Scores of the match in favor of Team TKN were 15-21, 21-16, 15-12.
Team TKN ends pool play a perfect 3-0 and now advance to the round of 16. Brackets and schedules will be made available once the rest of pool play finishes on Friday.
Taryn Kloth is the daughter of Mike and Janna Kloth. Mike is a 1990 graduate of Wisner-Pilger and Janna is a 1996 graduate of Oakland-Craig.
