Volleyball To Face 'Roos At Home In Conference Play
The Centenary volleyball team returns to Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play on Saturday as the Ladies are set to face the Austin College 'Roos in a match set for Noon inside the Gold Dome.
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | T |
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Austin
9-6,2-0
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25 | 25 | 25 | 3 |
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Centenary (La.)
1-10,0-2
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4 | 14 | 18 | 0 |
Shreveport - The Centenary volleyball team returns to Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play on Saturday as the Ladies are set to face the Austin College 'Roos in a match set for Noon inside the Gold Dome.
Live stats and live video are available for the match at the links below:
STATS: https://centenary.prestosports.com/sports/wvball/2024-25/boxscores/20240928_ihi8.xml
VIDEO: https://www.ktalnews.com/gocentenary/watch-live-centenary-college-sports-2024-2025/
The Ladies (1-10, 0-2 SCAC) picked up their first win of the season on Tuesday as they recorded a 3-0 sweep over the Wiley University Wildcats in a non-conference match at home as head coach Kayla Black recorded her first win with the Ladies.
Centenary has now won three-straight matches against Wiley with all three being sweeps. Centenary was back on its home court for the first time since Aug. 30-31 when it hosted the "Cajun Country Classic" and is now 1-3 this season at the Gold Dome. Austin College (9-6, 2-0 SCAC) enters Saturday's action riding a four-match winning streak.
Centenary is 0-2 so far in conference play with losses on the road against the University of Dallas and McMurry University Sept. 21-22. Austin College has picked up conference wins against the University of Dallas and McMurry.
The SCAC divides its volleyball members into two divisions: Blue and Gold. Centenary and Austin College each compete in the Blue Division with Colorado College, the University of Dallas, McMurry University, and the University of St. Thomas.
The Gold Division includes Concordia University, Schreiner University, Southwestern University, Texas Lutheran University and Trinity University. The 'Roos currently lead the Blue division with the Ladies in last place, just behind St. Thomas.
Austin College leads the all-time series with Centenary, 21-4 and 19-3 in SCAC contests. The teams have played four times in Shreveport and have split the matches. The 'Roos have won eight in a row in the series which dates back to 2012. The teams will meet again on Oct. 24 in Sherman, Texas. The Ladies were picked to finish 11th in the preseason SCAC poll while the 'Roos were picked seventh.
The league has adopted a change in format this season as the top eight teams will qualify for the postseason conference tournament. 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 LOOK BACK AT THE WIN ON TUESDAY NIGHT:
Centenary won the first set, 25-20, took set two 25-22, and closed out the match with a 25-16 win in set three. The Ladies posted their top offensive effort of the season as they tallied season highs in assists (30), service aces (14), digs (60), and tied their season high in kills (34).
The Ladies' top offensive set was also the third as they finished with a .353 attack % that featured 15 kills and only three errors in 34 total attacks. Centenary finished with a season-best overall hitting % of .204 and a season-high 50.0 points.
Ladies' Season Statistical Leaders:
Aces: Junior S Kristi Hinze (Shepherd, Texas) – 18
Assists: Hinze – 158
Blocks (Solo): Sophomore MB Bailee Henderson (Monroe, La.) – 9
Digs: Junior LB Daly Nagot (Benton, La.) – 99
Kills: Sophomore OH Alyssa Gatlin (Spring, Texas) – 43
Sophomore MB Reign McArthur (Midlothian, Texas) had a single-match and career best four aces in the win over Wiley, freshman OH Aaliyah Barnett (Dickinson, Texas) posted a season-high nine kills, and Nagot tied her season high in digs with 15 which she has done in consecutive matches.
Hinze had 17 assists and has nine matches with double-digit assists and in six-straight matches. She ranks second in the conference in aces per set (0.52) and has 18 total this season. Hinze also ranks 10th in the league in assists (4.68/set and 158 total). The Ladies, as a team, have 418 digs, 240 kills, 207 assists, 49 aces, and 13 solo blocks this season.
See the Ladies' complete schedule here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/wvball/2024-25/schedule
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Team Stats
Austin
Centenary (La.)
| Game Statistics | Austin | Centenary (La.) |
|---|---|---|
| Hitting % | .400 | -.011 |
| Blocks | 5.0 | 4.0 |
| Digs | 53 | 35 |
| Aces | 10 | 2 |
