WAVERLY, Iowa-- Wartburg (29-5 overall) hosts Loras (22-12) Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the Iowa Conference Tournament championship match. The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, which begins next week.

The Knights advanced to the championship match with a 3-0 sweep over Coe Thursday; the Duhawks won 3-2 over Buena Vista.

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The Series
Wartburg holds the all-time series lead at 41-15, but Loras won the regular-season meeting Sept. 22, 3-2. This was the only conference loss for the Knights.

Wartburg
Senior Krystal Graves (Cedar Falls) leads the team with 342 kills and 2.85 kills/set. Junior Claire Willenbring (Dyersville) has 289 kills, and senior Kaity Brouwer (Dike) has 220. Three Knights—senior Libby Creery (West Union), freshman Lizzy Blough (Dike), and sophomore Aryn Jones (Marion)—have triple-digit kills with 166, 128, and 107, respectively.

Senior Emma Harmeyer (West Des Moines) has 711 set assists and sophomore Maria Brown (Peosta) has 356 as they co-run the offense.

Senior Jamie Farley (Cedar Falls) leads the squad from the service line with 32 aces. Willenbring has 27, Brown has 26, and Brouwer follows with 25.

Loras
Claire Ritchie leads her team with 313 kills. Therese Schultz follows with 298, Liz Jendra has 266, Danni Kennedy has 262, Jenna LaCorte has 209, and Akasia Brown has 126.
Ritchie has 691 set assists, and Jenna Erickson has 677. Jendra leads her squad with 30 service aces while Ritchie and Erickson each have 23.