Ladies Open SCAC Play On Saturday At McMurry

Abilene, Texas – The Centenary volleyball team opens Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play against the McMurry University War Hawks on Saturday afternoon in a match set for 1 p.m. inside Kimbrell Arena.

Live stats and live video are available for the match at the links below:

STATS: https://mcmurrysports.com/sidearmstats/wvball/summary

VIDEO: https://www.flovolleyball.tv/teams/7922124-mcmurry-womens-volleyball

The Ladies (0-8) and War Hawks (5-5) are meeting for the first time since 2017 and also the first time as fellow SCAC members. McMurry leads the all-time series with Centenary 6-0.

The SCAC divides its volleyball members into two divisions: Blue and Gold. Centenary and McMurry each compete in the Blue Division with Austin College, Colorado College, the University of Dallas and the University of St. Thomas. The Gold Division includes Concordia University, Schreiner University, Southwestern University, Texas Lutheran University and Trinity University.

Centenary fell 3-0 to the University of Texas-Dallas Comets on Tuesday evening in a non-conference contest in Richardson, Texas while McMurry opened league play with a 3-1 home loss to Austin College, its first home match of the season.

The Ladies lost the first set on Tuesday by a score of 25-15, set two by a count of 25-11, and the Comets closed out the sweep with a 25-12 win in set three. Centenary finished with 26 digs, 14 kills, 12 assists, and one solo block.

Ladies' Season Team Statistical Totals:

Aces: 27

Assists: 136

Blocks (Solo): 12

Digs:268

Kills: 153

Ladies' Season Individual Statistical Leaders:

Assists: Junior S Kristi Hinze (Shepherd, Texas) – 106

Blocks (Solo): Sophomore MB Bailee Henderson (Monroe, La.) – 9

Digs: Junior LB Daly Nagot (Benton, La.)

Kills: Henderson – 34

Hinze ranks eighth in the conference in assists and averages 4.58 per set.

The Ladies were picked to finish 11th in the SCAC this season in the preseason poll while the War Hawks were predicted to finish ninth.

Teams within their division will play a double round robin, teams outside of their division will play a single round robin, giving Blue Division teams a 15-game conference schedule and Gold Division teams a 14-game schedule.  

Following the completion of the regular season, the top three teams from each division, plus the next two best conference records (regardless of division), will compete in a single-elimination tournament, November 15 and 16, to determine the conference's automatic qualifier into the NCAA Tournament. Austin College and University of Dallas will both host quarterfinal matches on Friday, followed by both of Friday's semifinal matches as well as Saturday's championship match contested at Austin College.

A Glance at McMurry:

The War Hawks are led by head coach Cammie Petree, who is in her 29^th season at the helm

McMurry already has more wins now than it did last season when it finished 2-24 overall (1-14 in conference play).

The War Hawks opened their 2023 season in Shreveport as the Ladies hosted their annual "Cajun Country Classic" at the Gold Dome. McMurry and Centenary, though, did not face each other during the weekend as the War Hawks went 1-3.

See the Ladies' complete schedule here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/wvball/2024-25/schedule

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