Pineville, La. – The Centenary volleyball team aims to snap its four-game losing streak on Tuesday evening as the Ladies take a break from conference play as they face the Louisiana Christian University Wildcats in a contest set for 6 p.m. at H.O. West Fieldhouse.
Live stats and live video are available for the match at the links below:
Stats: https://portal.stretchinternet.com/lcwildcats/
Video: https://www.lcwildcats.net/sports/2017/11/21/boxcast-stream.aspx?path=gen
The Ladies (6-10) and Wildcats (4-3) will meet for the second-consecutive season and sixth time overall in an all-time series that the Ladies lead 5-1. Centenary swept the Wildcats at home last season and will be making its first appearance in Pineville since 2018, a match won by the Wildcats, 3-2. Centenary and Louisiana Christian will meet again next month as the Ladies will face the Wildcats on Senior Night, Tuesday, Oct. 25 at 6 p.m. in the Gold Dome.
Centenary looks to get back in the win column after a disappointing weekend at home as the Maroon and White lost all four Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference contests on its home court in a SCAC crossover event. The Ladies dropped a pair of matches on Saturday to Colorado College by a score of 3-1 and 3-0 to Trinity and then lost to Schreiner, 3-2, and Austin College, 3-1, on Sunday. Louisiana Christian split a pair of matches with Paul Quinn over the weekend.
Senior DS/L Jaycie Proctor (Paris, Texas) had a superb week for the Ladies as he played in five matches and 20 sets and tallied 113 digs, nine assists, four service aces, a kill, and five points. Proctor posted a career-high 35 digs in the loss to Schreiner on Sunday, which is the second-most in a single match in the division era (2011-present) in program history.
Proctor's previous record for a single match was 31 in the season opener against Howard Payne back on Sept. 2. She added an assist and a pair of aces after tallying 32 digs in Saturday's two matches against Colorado College and Trinity. She had 23 digs, four assists, and an ace at Texas A&M-Texarkana last Tuesday. Proctor is tied for first in the conference in digs (268) and is averaging 5.58 digs per set. She also has 28 assists, 11 aces, and three kills. She entered last weekend ranked in the top 15 in the country in division III in digs per set.
The Ladies tallied 108 digs, 55 kills, 51 assists, and six service aces against Schreiner. The 108 digs are a season high and tied for the sixth-most in a single match in the division III (2011-present) era. The Ladies opened with a 25-23 win in set one and then the Mountaineers evened the match with a 25-22 victory in the second set. Centenary took set three in convincing fashion, 25-16, and appeared poised to win the match but Schreiner rebounded with a 25-21 win in set four and then clinched the match with a 15-10 margin in set five.
Senior S/RS Rachel Demerjian (Glendora, Calif.) posted season-bests in assists (45) and digs (21) and had one ace against the Mountaineers. She is ranked third in the SCAC in assists this season with 299. Senior MB Liz Lowe (San Antonio, Texas) is ranked fourth in the SCAC in kills (136) and had an impressive week for the Ladies last week as she tallied 64 total points, 55 kills, 58 digs, 10 total blocks, three aces, and one assist in Centenary's five matches.
Sophomore RS Jaylin St. Martin (New Orleans, La.) had a solid match versus Schreiner with 12 kills and nine digs, good for 13.5 points, sophomore OH/DS Kiara Liedy (Sugar Land, Texas) posted 15 digs and freshman MB Susi Curtis (Haslet, Texas) added seven. Freshman MB/OH Jordan Wheeler (Baton Rouge, La.) finished with six kills and a pair of digs and junior MB/OH Robin Lemelle (Liberty, Texas) had seven digs and six kills.
Sophomore RS Aubrey Salazar (San Antonio, Texas) recorded a career-high 13 kills for a team-high 14 points. Freshman S Meadow Smith (Mansfield, Texas) had 26 assists to go with 11 digs and a kill in the Ladies' match versus Austin College on Sunday and senior DS Mariah Martinez (San Antonio, Texas) had 10 assists and seven digs.
The Ladies will return to conference play this weekend as they travel to Georgetown, Texas as Southwestern University will play host to Centenary, Texas Lutheran, and St. Thomas. The Ladies will face St. Thomas and Southwestern on Saturday and TLU on Sunday.
See the complete Ladies' season schedule here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/wvball/2022-23/schedule
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