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Volleyball KatieJo Kuhens

Volleyball Hosts Triangular

WAVERLY, Iowa-- Wartburg (26-5 overall) hosts Cornell (11-13) Saturday at 10 a.m. and Waldorf (9-24) at 2 p.m.

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The Series
Wartburg hold the lead at 27-8-1 over Cornell. The Knights and the Warriors squared off just once in 1986 with Wartburg claiming the victory.

Wartburg
The Knights  won the Iowa Conference regular season championship Tuesday with a  3-2 win over Buena Vista. Senior Krystal Graves (Cedar Falls) leads the team with 314 kills. Junior Claire Willenbring (Dyersville) has 254, senior Kaity Brouwer (Dike) has 200, classmate Libby Creery (West Union) has 154, freshman Lizzy Blough (Dike) has 119, and sophomore Aryn Jones (Marion) has 101.

Senior Jamie Farley (Cedar Falls) leads the team at the service line with 30 aces while sophomore Maria Brown (Peosta) has 25, Brouwer has 24, and Willenbring has 22.

National Stat Rankings
Wartburg ranks in the top 100 of 13 statistical categories, which the NCAA released Tuesday The Knights rank sixth in team digs (2,050), 14th in team total attacks (4,075), 17th in team assists (1,270), 18th in team kills (1,375), 22nd in digs per set (18.64), 22nd in team total blocks (205.5), 24th in match win-loss percentage (.833), 52nd in team attacks per set (37.05) and 60th in hitting percentage (.216). The Orange and Black also rank 63rd in blocks per set (1.87), 67th in assists per set (11.55), 68th in kills per set (12.50) and 77th in opposing hitting percentage (.129).

Individually, two Knights rank in the top 100 of four statistical categories. Farley ranks 18th in total digs (561) and 29h in digs per set. Brouwer ranks 39th in total blocks (93) and 89th in hitting percentage (.321).

Cornell
The Rams will travel to Illinois College Thursday night. Diamond Boyd leads her team with 243 kills and 3.16 kills/set. Lauren Ahart, Mariah Brandly, Nicole Ciarai, and Libby Schnoor join her in triple digits with 161, 156, 141 and 116 kills, respectively.

Katherine Devlin has a team-best 39 service aces while Brandly has 29.

Waldorf
The Warriors will face Viterbo Wednesday and host Bellevue Friday before Saturday's match.

Abby Buehler has a team-high 367 kills and 3.01 kills/set. Isabelle Rothbauer is second with 194 kills, followed by 188 from Kayla Budgins, and 180 from Megan Perkins. Kaitlyn Monck has a team-best 38 service aces.
 
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