Cain Collects Southland Conference Defensive Player of the Week Award
9/12/2016 12:00:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
Complete Southland Conference Release
FRISCO, Texas – As a result of one of the best week-long stretches of play on the back line in program history, Stephen F. Austin junior libero Lexus Cain earned the title of Southland Conference Defensive Player of the Week for the first time in her career. The news was announced Monday afternoon in a release issued by the league office.
In her third season in purple and white and out of Amarillo, Texas, Cain amassed an astounding 103 digs through 16 sets last week, leading SFA to a 2-2 record in the process.
Those 103 digs break down to a digs per set average of 6.44 during that span and in a four-set loss to Texas Tech, Cain scooped up a career-best 41 of them. That total is the third-most in a single match by an SFA player in the history of the program and currently stands as the most digs in a single match by any NCAA Division I player this season. Cain’s defensive efforts yielded a spot for the junior on the Texas Tech Invitational All-Tournament Team.
Only a pair of NCAA Division I volleyball players have succeeded in surpassing the numbers put up by the Ladyjacks’ libero through the early stages of the 2016 campaign. On the national scene, Cain’s Southland Conference-leading digs per set average of 5.83 ranks third and her 222 total digs are the fifth-most nationally.
After playing nine of their first 10 matches of the season on the road or at neutral sites, the Ladyjacks will be back in Nacogdoches for their next seven matches. The home stand, which extends through the rest of September, begins with a Thursday evening battle against Incarnate Word that will also serve as SFA’s first Southland Conference match of the season. Match time has been set for 6:30 p.m. in Shelton Gym.
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