After winning their first two American Athletic Conference games, the Mustangs lost on Friday night, 3-0 to conference preseason favorite Louisville for their first conference loss ever.

Offensively, SMU’s Abbey Bybel led the Mustangs with 10 kills and hitting a team-high .308.

On the defensive side of the net, the Mustangs were led by Morgan Heise with 16 digs-the most in a three-set match this season.

Louisville (7-6, 3-0 AAC) finished the match on a high note; taking a 25-17 win in the third set. SMU started to rally in the final set but the Cardinals put an end to that and didn’t let SMU back within three points the rest of the set to end the match.

Louisville went on a 12-4 run in the second set thanks to SMU committing eight errors. If not for Heise’s defensive efforts, SMU would have been blown out of the set.

SMU’s Caroline Young finished with nine kills and hit .261 in the match. Young was coming off back-to-back Conference Player of The Week awards. Young has 203 kills and is hitting .268 in 2013.

The Mustangs are averaging 13.3 kills a set while allowing opponents to average 11.4 kills a set.

The Mustangs hosted Cincinnati Sunday afternoon at the Dedman Center. Go to smudailycampus.com for the results of the match.