Shreveport - The Centenary volleyball team dropped its regular-season finale by a score of 3-0 on Friday to Texas-Dallas in non-conference match at the Gold Dome.

The Ladies finish their 2019 season at 11-24 overall and 7-11 in Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play.

Two Ladies' seniors, Kristian Loving (Tyler, Texas) and Marissa Sandoval (San Antonio, Texas), along with team manager Taylor Morgan, were honored in a special pregame ceremony. 

Texas-Dallas (21-4, 12-1 American Southwest Conference) swept the season series, 2-0, after also defeating the Ladies, 3-0, back on Oct. 11 in the UT-Dallas Tri-Match. 

The Comets took the first set, 25-11, and then won set two, 25-16, and closed the match with a score of 25-19. 

The Ladies had three players in double figures in digs as sophomore Alyssa Davis (Van Alstyne, Texas), Loving, and Sandoval each posting 10. Sophomore Rachel Demerjian (Glendora, Calif.) had 21 assists and sophomore Kaye Kelley (Fort Worth, Texas) had a team-best seven kills.

Centenary collected 52 digs in the match and finished the season as the leading team in the country in division III in team digs with an impressive 2,642.

Sandoval leads all players in the country in division III with 754 this season and now has 1,993 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.

Demerjian also had an outstanding season for the Ladies. The 2018 SCAC all-second team honoree leads the team with 1,087 assists which ranks in the top 10 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 1,087 assists this season are a new single-season record, breaking the previous school record of 1,015 which she set last season. Her 2,102 career assists put her second all-time in school history in the division III era, just 207 shy of the school record held by Allison Lazewski, who played from 2014-17.

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