DULUTH, Minn. – The St. Scholastica volleyball team will look to run the table in conference play when it travels to Crown College and Northwestern College this weekend to finish the regular season.
Match Times:
Friday: @ Crown 7 p.m.
Saturday: @ Northwestern 1 p.m.
Last Action:
The Saints defeated Northland College for the 33rd straight time sweeping the LumberJills on Wednesday night. #Anna Zyvoloski# had a match-high 17 kills for the Saints.
St. Scholastica Saints (25-6, 12-0 UMAC)
The Saints are looking to go 13-0 in the conference for the first time in program history… The Saints have finished unbeaten in the conference just once in program history, in the 1984 season … With a win on Friday, the Saints will have clinched their first outright league championship since the 1988 season … The have never won more than none consecutive matches in a season, since prior to the 1989 season … The Saints have 18, three-set sweeps already this season… #Paige Hardy# has 14 double-doubles this season … The Saints have a .244 hitting percentage, which is the best in the conference and 32nd best in Division III … #Nikki Hughes# is the conference and team leader in digs with 4.61 per set … Hughes needs just 19 digs to reach 1,000 for her career
Crown Storm (4-22, 1-11 UMAC)
The lone conference win this season for the Storm came against Presentation College last Friday … Shelby Vischer and Naomi Anderson are leading the team in kills with 3.22 and 2.07 kills per set…Judy Mundt is the team's primary setter with 6.91 assists per set…Shelby Vischer, Judy Mundt and Zong Yang all have over two digs per set, the trio have 2.81, 2.33 and 2.52 digs per set …Anderson is leading the team in blocks with .63 blocks per game.
Last Meeting: (CSS All-Time Record vs. Crown: 20-0)
In an early October match-up, the Saints swept the Storm 3-0…Zyvoloski led the Saints with 13 kills and seven digs…#Sarah Kurtovich# had 22 set assists.
Northwestern Eagles (23-11, 10-2 UMAC)
The Eagles sit in second place, just two games behind the Saints … If the Saints were to lose both matches this weekend and the Eagles win both, the Eagles can clinch at least a share of the regular season title…Chelsea Koth and Elissa Sandstrom are leading the team in kills with 3.16 and 3.13 kills per set…Greta King is also averaging high numbers with 2.78 kills per set…Leah Kostek is second in the UMAC with 10.19 assists per set…Kelsey Korporal is the team's libero with 4.57 digs per set…Courtney Jones is averaging just over .7 blocks per set…The Eagles have won nine of the last 10.
Last Meeting: (CSS All-Time Record vs. NWC: 18-31)
In an October 8th match-up, CSS swept the Eagles in three sets to end the Eagles' 34-match conference regular season unbeaten streak … Zyvoloski led the Saints with 20 kills in the win…Kurtovich had 41 set assists and nine digs.
