WAVERLY, Iowa-- Wartburg (25-11 overall) hosts Coe (33-4) Saturday at 7 p.m. in the Iowa Conference tournament championship match for the second straight year. The winner receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
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Last Time Out
Wartburg won the regular-season meeting 3-1 on Oct. 30 to claim the regular-season conference title.
A Look at the Teams
Wartburg
Senior Maddie Forsyth (Charles City) leads the team with 386 kills and 2.99 kills per set. Junior Bailey Wilson (West Des Moines) and senior Kelly Niemann (Fredricksburg) join her above the 300 kill mark with 348 and 314, respectively.
Senior Ramey Sieck (Fayette) also has triple digit kills (219) and became the program's all-time career set assist leader Thursday.
Junior Karly Bown (Lincoln, Neb.) leads the team from the service line with 71 aces.
Coe
Rachel Schaefer has a team-best 361 kills. Four fellow players have triple digit kills as Rachel Bosworth has 258, Brianna Smith 253, Katelin Langel 242 and Mackenzie Harbaugh with 206.
Harbaugh has 1,151 set assists and Alissa Wittenburg has 67 service aces.