WAVERLY, Iowa-- The Wartburg volleyball team (28-5 overall) hosts Coe (23-12) Thursday at 7 p.m. in a semifinal match of the Iowa Conference Tournament.
The Knights enter the match with a No. 1 seed; the Kohawks are No. 4. Tonight's winner will advance to Saturday's championship.



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The Series
Wartburg owns the all-time series lead at 32-8-1 and won the regular-season meeting 3-1 Oct. 7, the sixth victory in the Knights' eventual 16-match winning streak.

Wartburg
Senior Krystal Graves (Cedar Falls) leads the team with 333 kills and 2.85 kills/set. Junior Claire Willenbring (Dyersville) has 271 kills and senior Kaity Brouwer (Dike) has 212. Three Knights, senior Libby Creery (West Union), freshman Lizzy Blough (Dike), and sophomore Aryn Jones (Marion) all have triple digit kills with 161, 127, and 105, respectively.

Senior Emma Harmeyer (West Des Moines) has 685 set assists and sophomore Maria Brown (Peosta) has 337 as they co-run the offense.

Senior Jamie Farley (Cedar Falls) leads the squad from the service line with 32 aces. Willenbring and Brown each have 26 and Brouwer follows with 25.

National Stat Categories
Wartburg ranks in the top 100 of 13 statistical categories, which the NCAA released Tuesday.

The Knights rank 16^th in team digs (2,184), 23^rd in team total attacks (4,395), 25^th in match won-loss percentage (.844), 26^th in digs per set (18.51), 28^th in team kills (1,479), 29^th in team assists (1,361), 31^st in team total blocks (220.5) and 53^rd in team attacks per set (37.25). The Orange and Black also rank 61^st in hitting percentage (.215), 65^th in kills per set (12.53), 66^th in blocks per set (1.87), 70^th in assists per set (11.53) and 97^th in opposing hitting percentage (.134).

Individually, two Knights rank in the top 100 of four statistical categories: Farley ranks 31^st in total digs (589) and 37^th in digs per set (5.31) and Brouwer ranks 58^th in total blocks (98) and 70^th in hitting percentage (.322).

Coe
The Kohawks enter tonight on a four-match winning streak. Brianna Smith has a team-best 445 kills and 3.48 kills/set. Olivia Leisinger has 295 kills, Lauren Himan has 264, Mackenzie Harbaugh has 245, Lindsey Koch has 208, and Jaimee Rindy has 153.

Harbaugh leads her team at the service line with 71 aces.