MARSHALL, Texas – Playing four matches this week, the East Texas Baptist University volleyball team opens up on the road on Tuesday night and finishes the week hosting the American Southwest Conference Crossover Tournament on Friday and Saturday. They travel for a non-conference match against Centenary College in Shreveport, La., on Tuesday night as a warm up for the weekend. Below is the information on this week's games.
ETBU vs. Centenary College | Shreveport, La. | Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019
Arena: Gold Dome
Time: 7:00 PM
All-Time Series: ETBU 11-0
- Last ETBU Win: Sep. 3, 2019 (3-0)
ASC Crossover
ETBU vs. Mary Hardin-Baylor | Marshall, Texas | Friday, Sept. 27, 2019
Arena: Ornelas Gymnasium
Time: 11:00 AM
All-Time Series: ETBU 17-12
- Last ETBU Win: Oct. 14 , 2014 (3-2)
- Last UMHB Win: Oct. 13, 2018 (3-0)
ETBU vs. Howard Payne | Marshall, Texas | Friday, Sept. 27, 2019
Arena: Ornelas Gymnasium
Time: 3:00 PM
All-Time Series: ETBU 13-1
- Last ETBU Win: Oct. 12 , 2018 (3-0)
- Last HPU Win: Sep. 30, 2011 (3-2)
ETBU vs. Concordia (TX)| Marshall, Texas | Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019
Arena: Ornelas Gymnasium
Time: 10:00 AM
All-Time Series: CTX 14-13
- Last ETBU Win: Sep. 25, 2015 (3-0)
- Last CTX Win: Oct. 12, 2018 (3-0)
ETBU
- 8-5, 2-1 for the season following a five-set win over Louisiana College, in which they rallied from two sets down.
- Bailey Byas led the way with 14 kills while Carley Boswell and Allie Fennell had 13 kills
- Cassidy Zellmer finished with a double-double with 25 assists and 18 digs
- Julia De Los Santos put up 15 digs
- Averages 10.9 kills per set, 9.4 assists per set, 1.4 aces per set, 17.9 digs per set, and 1.5 blocks per set
- Have won six matches in the third and fifth sets combined.
- Tally up 996 points by set with a high 268 in the third set
- Allie Fennell leads with 113 kills on the season
- Kennedy Peacock is five kills away from 100 on the season.
- Zellmer leads with 218 assists on the season.
- De Los Santos needs 12 digs to reach 200 on the season
CC
- 5-10 following a four-set win against the University of Dallas
- ETBU is 2-0 against them this season which included a four-set win (Aug. 31) and a sweep (Sep. 3)
- Averaging 10.95 kills per set, 10.30 assists per set, and 21.30 digs per set
- Ami Powers leads with 110 kills
- Rachel Demerjian leads with 293 assists
- Marissa Sandoval has 215 digs to top the Ladies
UMHB
- 8-4, 1-0 following win a sweep over Hardin-Simmons University
- Riding in with a five-match winning streak
- Averaging 11.4 kills per set, 10.0 assists per set, and 17.3 digs per set
- Miranda Klein leads with 112 kills
- Cory Jo Martin has the assists lead with 359
- Sarah Paolini is the team leader with 48 blocks
- Jenna Gillean has 140 digs
HPU
- 2-10, 0-3 entering this week following loss to Sul Ross State University
- Picked up wins against national schools including Minnesota-Morris, Neumann University (Pa.), Endicott College (Mass.), and Christopher Newport (Va.)
- Last won a match against ETBU in 2011
- Averaging 8.1 kills per set. 7.2 assists per set, and 12.2 digs per set
- Mya Ross leads with 78 kills
- Logan Boyd has a team-high 100 assists
- Kylee Shirley has a team-leading 94 digs
CTX
- 11-3, 4-0 following a sweep of McMurry
- Started 4-0 in the Austin College Classic
- Swept two California schools in Linfield and Occidental
- Averaging 11.9 kills per set, 11.3 assists per set, and 15.5 digs per set
- Tristyn Massey has 131 kills to lead the Tornadoes
- Georgia Quiroz dishes out 247 assists
- Rylee Davis is the leader in digs with 175
