Shreveport – The Centenary volleyball team will close its regular season with a non-conference match against the University of Texas at Dallas Comets on Friday in a match set for 6 p.m. in the Gold Dome.
Two Ladies' seniors, Kristian Loving (Tyler, Texas) and Marissa Sandoval (San Antonio, Texas), along with team manager Taylor Morgan, will be honored in a special pregame ceremony beginning at approximately 5:45 p.m. The Ladies are 4-4 at home this season.
The Ladies (11-23, 7-11 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference) and Comets will meet for the second time this season after UT-Dallas picked up a 3-0 victory over Centenary back on Oct. 11 in Richardson, Texas. The Comets enter Friday's match at 20-4 overall and 12-1 in the American Southwest Conference.
Centenary enters Friday's match leading the country in division III in team digs with an impressive 2,590 and Sandoval leads all players in the country in division III with 744 and now has 1,983 for her career which is the most in program history in the division III era. Sandoval also owns the record for digs in a single season, set this season, and digs in a single match (47) set this season in a 3-2 win over Schreiner on Oct. 19.
Sophomore Rachel Demerjian (Glendora, Calif.) has also had an outstanding season for the Ladies. The 2018 SCAC all-second team honoree leads the team with 1,066 assists which ranks seventh in the country in division III. She set the single-game record for assists (66) in that same 3-2 victory over Schreiner on Oct. 19 in which Sandoval set the digs record. Demerjian held the previous record of 55 set last season.
Her 1,066 assists this season are a new single-season record, breaking the previous school record of 1,015 which she set last season. Her 2,081 career assists put her second all-time in school history in the division III era, just 228 shy of the school record held by Allison Lazewski, who played from 2014-17.
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