MAGNOLIA, Ark. (Oct. 17, 2016) – The Southern Arkansas Lady Mulerider Volleyball team picked up their seventh win of the 2016 season and fifth in straight sets by downing Central Baptist (25-9,25-9,25-15) on Tuesday night in a non-league contest inside the W.T. Watson Center.
RECORDS
Southern Arkansas (7-13)
Central Baptist (3-13)
HOW IT HAPPENED
Southern Arkansas cruised in the victory courtesy of an attack percentage of .376 (42-7-93).
The Lady Muleriders scored the first nine points of the opening set and constructed a lead of 20-4 behind a powerful hitting percentage of .478 (13-2-23).
It was much of the same for Southern Arkansas in the second set as the club opened up scoring on an 8-2 run that soon blossomed into a 20-7 lead as SAU posted consecutive sets with a swing clip of .400 or better with a .412 (15-1-34) hit percentage.
Central Baptist claimed their only lead of the contest by scoring the first point of the third set, before Southern Arkansas used a 7-1 run midway through the frame to distance themselves and pull away to take the set and the match.
FOR SOUTHERN ARKANSAS
Middle Hitters Brittany Lampkin and Kaitlyn Reiner led Southern Arkansas with eight kills apiece, while junior Alli O'Banion chipped in with five kills. Reiner led SAU with 10.0 points.
Eleven Lady Muleriders recorded a kill in Tuesday night's win.
Senior Paige Mays recorded her 19th game this campaign with at least 10 or more digs as she produced a game-high dozen. Hannah Rice chipped in with eight digs and freshmanWhitney Brown added five.
Freshman setter Katy Cooper found herself in every major stat category as she collected a game-high 28 assists, while also adding four digs, a pair of kills, one block assist and one service ace.
In her collegiate debut, freshman Lauren Strader registered four kills in seven total attempts for an attack clip of .571, while adding a dig and an assist.
FOR THE OPPOSITION
The Mustangs attacked at -.024 with their highest set percentage being .088 in the final frame.
Gloria Bell, Cameron Roberts and Kelsy Knox combined for a dozen kills led by Bell's five. Bell also contributed with six digs.
Hope Johnson led the Mustangs in assists with nine, while Kobie Hartman chipped in with five.
Payton Cope paced CBC with 10 digs and Lenee Gibson added nine.
OF NOTE
Southern Arkansas improves to 21-0 against non-NCAA opponents since the program became a charter member of the Great American Conference in 2011.
It was the third match of the season and second in a row that Southern Arkansas posted an attack percentage of .300 or better with Tuesday's output of .376 becoming a season-high.
The last time SAU recorded back-to-back games with a .300 attack percentage or better was on October 23 and October 25 of 2014 when the Lady Muleriders earned a pair of 3-0 victories over Texas College (.391) and Grambling State (.350) respectively.
UP NEXT
The Lady Muleriders hit the road for a tough Great American Conference slate beginning with a 7 p.m. first-serve against Oklahoma Baptist in Shawnee, Oklahoma, on Thursday, October 13, before clashing with Southern Nazarene on Friday, October 14, at 2 p.m. in Bethany, Oklahoma.
Live stats for that matchup are available here: http://www.sidearmstats.com/saumag/wvball/.
Live video will also be available and can be found here:http://livestream.com/accounts/10140781.
Be sure to visit muleriderathletics.com for continuing coverage of Lady Mulerider Volleyball including pre- and post-game updates, weekly notes, and the coach's show with Head Coach Britney Davis.
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