Tuesday, October 17
Nacogdoches, Texas
6:30 p.m.
Stephen F. Austin
vs
Southeastern Louisiana University
Tuesday Tilt with Southeastern Louisiana Starts SFA's Three-Match Homestand
10/16/2017 4:54:00 PM | Women's Volleyball
SFA remains in second place in Southland Conference standings
Match 24
Stephen F. Austin (18-5, 6-1 Southland) vs. Southeastern Louisiana (2-19, 0-7 Southland)
Tuesday, Oct. 17 | 6:30 p.m. | Shelton Gym (600) | Nacogdoches, Texas
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Stephen F. Austin (18-5, 6-1 Southland) vs. Southeastern Louisiana (2-19, 0-7 Southland)
Tuesday, Oct. 17 | 6:30 p.m. | Shelton Gym (600) | Nacogdoches, Texas
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THE FIRST SERVE
• Back in Nacogdoches for the first time in almost two weeks, the Stephen F. Austin volleyball aims to continue its flawless month of October when it starts a three-match homestand by playing host to Southeastern Louisiana at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday evening.
• Fresh off a match in which it handed two-time defending Southland Conference champion Texas A&M-Corpus Christi its first home conference loss since 2014, SFA is seeking its 15th consecutive triumph inside Shelton Gym. The last time the Ladyjacks suffered a setback on their home floor came on September 21, 2016, when Big 12 opponent Baylor exited the facility with a 3-1 victory. Against Southland Conference foes inside Shelton Gym, SFA has won 11 matches in a row dating back to last season. Of those matches, all but three have been decided in three sets.
• So far, SFA has yet to experience a loss in the month of October as the Ladyjacks are off to their best start in the month since posting a perfect 9-0 record during their 2015 campaign. In program history, SFA has gone undefeated in the month of October on four occasions - 2015 (9-0), 2006 (10-0), 2005 (10-0) and 1995 (9-0) - and in each of the seasons the Ladyjacks did not suffer an October loss they went on to capture a Southland Conference regular season title.
• After sitting out last Thursday's match at Incarnate Word, junior outside hitter Makenzee Hanna returned to the Ladyjacks' lineup at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and retook the top spot in the Southland Conference in terms of hitting percentage. Hailing from DeSoto, Texas, Hanna leads the 13-team conference in that statistical category with her mark of .347.
• With only three matches as a starter under her belt, freshman Anyia Williams has proven to be quite the potent weapon both on offense and defense for the Ladyjacks. A product of Cedar Hill, Texas, Williams has put forth double-digit kill efforts in all three of her starts and has also posted hitting percentages of .500 or higher in each of those tilts. Currently, her attack percentage of .523 in Southland Conference is the best mark among all league competitors.
SCOUTING SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA | ROSTER | SCHEDULE | STATISTICS
• The Lady Lions' trip to Nacogdoches represents the team's only road test from Oct. 14-Oct. 28 and it is inside Shelton Gym where they will try and secure their first triumph since a 3-0 victory over Jackson State on Sept. 15. Since then, Southeastern Louisiana has dropped nine-straight contests, the latest of which was an excruciating five-set setback on its home floor in a to in-state and Southland Conference rival New Orleans. In that tilt, the Lady Lions jumped out to a 2-0 lead only to see the Privateers battle back and win the final three sets.
• Southeastern Louisiana is the only team in the 13-team Southland Conference that has not won a league match in 2017 and the Lady Lions have not won a Southland Conference match in the state of Texas since September 26, 2015, when they claimed a 3-1 triumph over Houston Baptist inside Sharp Gym.
• In her second season of collegiate volleyball, Elyssa Purcell represents one of the top threats from the service line in the Southland Conference. Purcell leads Southeastern Louisiana with 20 total service aces, which works out to an average of 0.36 per set. That's the fourth-highest average by any player in the 13-team league and 16 of those aces have come in conference matches.
• Sophomore Savannah Alcazar is the only member of the Lady Lions' squad that is averaging over two kills per set. The League City, Texas, product's 157 total kills make her one of three players on the team with 100 or more kills and averages out to 2.28 winners per set. Chloee Holden (128 kills, 1.86 per set) and Purcell (100 kills, 1.79 per set) round out Southeastern Louisiana's top three offensive threats.
• In the back row, junior Lexie Torres has gone for 12 or more digs in each of the Lady Lions' last five matches and leads the squad with an average of 3.59 digs per set. That average is the 10th-best among all Southland Conference players.
• Front row defense is the calling card of freshman Tempestt Vaughn who has tallied six of Southeastern Louisiana's 18 solo blocks and 36 of the team's 154 block assists. Her blocks per set average of 0.74 is the highest on the team.
LAST TIME OUT
• Three players finished with 10 or more kills, three players recorded double-doubles and the Ladyjacks moved up to second place in the Southland Conference standings by emerging as the victors in a 3-2 triumph at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Saturday afternoon.
• Haley Coleman put down a team-high 16 kills and added 17 digs to lead SFA while Danae Daron tied a career high by putting down 14 kills. Freshman Anyia Williams hit .500 in the five-set marathon and finished with 11 total terminations.
• Daron accumulated a match and season-high six blocks, too, helping SFA claim an 8-3 advantage in rejections.
• All but one of the sets were decided by three or fewer points, but a 7-1 run by the Ladyjacks to start the fifth and final frame allowed the visitors to hold on and hand the Islanders their first Southland Conference home loss since 2014.
DOUBLE THE FUN
• SFA's five-set Southland Conference victory at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi last Saturday marked the second time in 2017 that three different Ladyjacks put forth double-double efforts in a single match.
• McKenzie Brewer (19 assists, 11 digs), Haley Coleman (16 kills, 17 digs) and Ann Hollas (26 assists, 14 digs) each posted double-doubles in the win. Hollas leads the team with nine double-double outings this season while Coleman has eight to her credit.
SEE WHAT YOU CAN DIG UP
• Through the course of the Ladyjacks' five-set win at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi last Saturday afternoon, senior libero Lexus Cain scooped up 18 digs and, in the process, moved up on the program's all-time career digs chart.
• Those 18 digs helped Cain, a native of Amarillo, Texas, increase her career total oto 1,437 and move past former Ladyjack great Krisna Johnson (1993-96) to ninth all-time. With 23 more digs, Cain will move up one more spot to eighth place and surpass Jenny Orndorff's career dig total of 1,459.
• Should she reach the 1,500 career digs mark, it would make Cain just the seventh player in the history of the program to record that many in a career.
LEAD THE WAY
• With another pair of accurate attacking efforts last week, the Ladyjacks remained the top attacking team in the Southland Conference. SFA's team attack percentage of .256 leads the 13-team league and is the 36th-highest mark among all NCAA Division I volleyball teams.
ACE IN THE HOLE
• After the events of last week, SFA increased its service ace total to 126 - the second-highest total in the Southland Conference and the 20th-highest total on the NCAA Division I volleyball scene.
• A team-best 26 of those aces have come off the hand of Ann Hollas who ranks fifth in the Southland Conference and 95th nationally in terms of total service aces. Sophomore Corin Evans has added 24, giving her the seventh-highest ace total in the league and the 139th-highest among all NCAA Division I volleyball players.
200 CLUB
• Two players - junior Haley Coleman and sophomore Corin Evans - have put down 200 or more kills for the Ladyjacks so far in 2017.
• Coleman leads the team and ranks 10th in the Southland Conference with 227 total kills and a kills per set average of 2.87 while Evans broke the 200-kill mark in a season last Saturday. She is up to 201 total kills and has produced SFA's second-best kills per set average at 2.72.
• With four more kills, sophomore Danae Daron will have 200 terminations to her credit. Daron is averaging 2.33 kills per set on the strength of a .319 attack percentage.
COMING UP NEXT
• In its second of five-straight matches against opponents from the state of Louisiana, SFA welcomes Southland Conference adversary McNeese to Shelton Gym for a Thursday evening match. The Ladyjacks and Cowgirls are set to mix it up at 6:30 p.m.
-SFA-
• Back in Nacogdoches for the first time in almost two weeks, the Stephen F. Austin volleyball aims to continue its flawless month of October when it starts a three-match homestand by playing host to Southeastern Louisiana at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday evening.
• Fresh off a match in which it handed two-time defending Southland Conference champion Texas A&M-Corpus Christi its first home conference loss since 2014, SFA is seeking its 15th consecutive triumph inside Shelton Gym. The last time the Ladyjacks suffered a setback on their home floor came on September 21, 2016, when Big 12 opponent Baylor exited the facility with a 3-1 victory. Against Southland Conference foes inside Shelton Gym, SFA has won 11 matches in a row dating back to last season. Of those matches, all but three have been decided in three sets.
• So far, SFA has yet to experience a loss in the month of October as the Ladyjacks are off to their best start in the month since posting a perfect 9-0 record during their 2015 campaign. In program history, SFA has gone undefeated in the month of October on four occasions - 2015 (9-0), 2006 (10-0), 2005 (10-0) and 1995 (9-0) - and in each of the seasons the Ladyjacks did not suffer an October loss they went on to capture a Southland Conference regular season title.
• After sitting out last Thursday's match at Incarnate Word, junior outside hitter Makenzee Hanna returned to the Ladyjacks' lineup at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and retook the top spot in the Southland Conference in terms of hitting percentage. Hailing from DeSoto, Texas, Hanna leads the 13-team conference in that statistical category with her mark of .347.
• With only three matches as a starter under her belt, freshman Anyia Williams has proven to be quite the potent weapon both on offense and defense for the Ladyjacks. A product of Cedar Hill, Texas, Williams has put forth double-digit kill efforts in all three of her starts and has also posted hitting percentages of .500 or higher in each of those tilts. Currently, her attack percentage of .523 in Southland Conference is the best mark among all league competitors.
SCOUTING SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA | ROSTER | SCHEDULE | STATISTICS
• The Lady Lions' trip to Nacogdoches represents the team's only road test from Oct. 14-Oct. 28 and it is inside Shelton Gym where they will try and secure their first triumph since a 3-0 victory over Jackson State on Sept. 15. Since then, Southeastern Louisiana has dropped nine-straight contests, the latest of which was an excruciating five-set setback on its home floor in a to in-state and Southland Conference rival New Orleans. In that tilt, the Lady Lions jumped out to a 2-0 lead only to see the Privateers battle back and win the final three sets.
• Southeastern Louisiana is the only team in the 13-team Southland Conference that has not won a league match in 2017 and the Lady Lions have not won a Southland Conference match in the state of Texas since September 26, 2015, when they claimed a 3-1 triumph over Houston Baptist inside Sharp Gym.
• In her second season of collegiate volleyball, Elyssa Purcell represents one of the top threats from the service line in the Southland Conference. Purcell leads Southeastern Louisiana with 20 total service aces, which works out to an average of 0.36 per set. That's the fourth-highest average by any player in the 13-team league and 16 of those aces have come in conference matches.
• Sophomore Savannah Alcazar is the only member of the Lady Lions' squad that is averaging over two kills per set. The League City, Texas, product's 157 total kills make her one of three players on the team with 100 or more kills and averages out to 2.28 winners per set. Chloee Holden (128 kills, 1.86 per set) and Purcell (100 kills, 1.79 per set) round out Southeastern Louisiana's top three offensive threats.
• In the back row, junior Lexie Torres has gone for 12 or more digs in each of the Lady Lions' last five matches and leads the squad with an average of 3.59 digs per set. That average is the 10th-best among all Southland Conference players.
• Front row defense is the calling card of freshman Tempestt Vaughn who has tallied six of Southeastern Louisiana's 18 solo blocks and 36 of the team's 154 block assists. Her blocks per set average of 0.74 is the highest on the team.
LAST TIME OUT
• Three players finished with 10 or more kills, three players recorded double-doubles and the Ladyjacks moved up to second place in the Southland Conference standings by emerging as the victors in a 3-2 triumph at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Saturday afternoon.
• Haley Coleman put down a team-high 16 kills and added 17 digs to lead SFA while Danae Daron tied a career high by putting down 14 kills. Freshman Anyia Williams hit .500 in the five-set marathon and finished with 11 total terminations.
• Daron accumulated a match and season-high six blocks, too, helping SFA claim an 8-3 advantage in rejections.
• All but one of the sets were decided by three or fewer points, but a 7-1 run by the Ladyjacks to start the fifth and final frame allowed the visitors to hold on and hand the Islanders their first Southland Conference home loss since 2014.
DOUBLE THE FUN
• SFA's five-set Southland Conference victory at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi last Saturday marked the second time in 2017 that three different Ladyjacks put forth double-double efforts in a single match.
• McKenzie Brewer (19 assists, 11 digs), Haley Coleman (16 kills, 17 digs) and Ann Hollas (26 assists, 14 digs) each posted double-doubles in the win. Hollas leads the team with nine double-double outings this season while Coleman has eight to her credit.
SEE WHAT YOU CAN DIG UP
• Through the course of the Ladyjacks' five-set win at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi last Saturday afternoon, senior libero Lexus Cain scooped up 18 digs and, in the process, moved up on the program's all-time career digs chart.
• Those 18 digs helped Cain, a native of Amarillo, Texas, increase her career total oto 1,437 and move past former Ladyjack great Krisna Johnson (1993-96) to ninth all-time. With 23 more digs, Cain will move up one more spot to eighth place and surpass Jenny Orndorff's career dig total of 1,459.
• Should she reach the 1,500 career digs mark, it would make Cain just the seventh player in the history of the program to record that many in a career.
LEAD THE WAY
• With another pair of accurate attacking efforts last week, the Ladyjacks remained the top attacking team in the Southland Conference. SFA's team attack percentage of .256 leads the 13-team league and is the 36th-highest mark among all NCAA Division I volleyball teams.
ACE IN THE HOLE
• After the events of last week, SFA increased its service ace total to 126 - the second-highest total in the Southland Conference and the 20th-highest total on the NCAA Division I volleyball scene.
• A team-best 26 of those aces have come off the hand of Ann Hollas who ranks fifth in the Southland Conference and 95th nationally in terms of total service aces. Sophomore Corin Evans has added 24, giving her the seventh-highest ace total in the league and the 139th-highest among all NCAA Division I volleyball players.
200 CLUB
• Two players - junior Haley Coleman and sophomore Corin Evans - have put down 200 or more kills for the Ladyjacks so far in 2017.
• Coleman leads the team and ranks 10th in the Southland Conference with 227 total kills and a kills per set average of 2.87 while Evans broke the 200-kill mark in a season last Saturday. She is up to 201 total kills and has produced SFA's second-best kills per set average at 2.72.
• With four more kills, sophomore Danae Daron will have 200 terminations to her credit. Daron is averaging 2.33 kills per set on the strength of a .319 attack percentage.
COMING UP NEXT
• In its second of five-straight matches against opponents from the state of Louisiana, SFA welcomes Southland Conference adversary McNeese to Shelton Gym for a Thursday evening match. The Ladyjacks and Cowgirls are set to mix it up at 6:30 p.m.
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