Thursday, September 29
Stephenville, Texas
6:00 p.m.
Stephen F. Austin
at
Tarleton State
Photo by: Amanda Paver
Volleyball Heads to Stephenville to Face the Texans
9/28/2022 12:00:00 PM | Women's Volleyball
Stephen F. Austin at Tarleton
Date: Thursday, September 29th
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Live Stream: ESPN+
Stadium: Wisdom Volleyball Gym
Series: SFA leads TSU 3-1
STEPHENVILLE, Texas- The Stephen F. Austin volleyball program continues its conference schedule at Tarleton State.
On Saturday, Sam Houston jumped out to an early lead winning the first two sets (22-25, 23-25), but SFA fought back winning the third and fourth sets (25-23, 25-17). The Bearkats dominated the fifth set jumping out to a 6-0 lead and rode that lead to a final score of 15-6 in the fifth set. The Ladyjacks led in every stat category except aces.
Despite the loss on the scoreboard, there were some seriously impressive tallies posted in the road loss. There were four double-doubles, five career highs and numerous season highs posted.
Ariana Pagan posted her fifth double-double of the season (11 kills, 13 digs) and tied a career high with four blocks.
Leah Powell tallied her sixth double-double of the year (13 kills, 21 digs) and tied a career high with five blocks. The 21 digs were one away from tying her career high.
Izabella Ortiz posted a season (and career) high seven blocks and tied her season and career high with 10 kills.
Payton Cerny set a season high with 18 kills, just three away from tying her career high of 21.
And now for the really fun stuff...
Jayden Flynn put up her fifth double-double of the year with a season and career high 34 assists to go along with 10 digs. With SFA running almost exclusively a two-setter offense for years now, the 34 assists were the most by a Ladyjack in a match in four years. The last time an SFA player had more was September 15, 2018 when Ann Hollas dished out 35 assists against North Texas. What is amazing about this stat is that Ann Hollas and her family were in attendance on Saturday in Huntsville! Ain't life grand?
With Ielan Bradley's 13 kills against Sam Houston, she now has a team leading 171 kills on the year. That's more than she had ALL OF LAST YEAR (169). She will eclipse her total points scored in 2021 sometime this week. So, basically with just one week of WAC play done, Bradley has already equaled her total point scoring output from all of last season. Amazing.
Haley Hoang got her second double-double of the year with 35 digs and 10 assists. The 35 digs are a career high for Haley and that total represents a tie for the eighth highest tally in program history. Hoang's 35 digs were the most by any Ladyjack in over six years. She is currently ranked third nationally in digs per set at 5.73
Series
This will be the 4th meeting between the Ladyjacks and the Texans.
2022: SFA, 3-1
2021: TSU, 3-2
2021: SFA, 3-0
2020: SFA, 3-1
Players Mentioned
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