WAVERLY, Iowa-- The Wartburg volleyball team (17-5 overall, 5-0 IIAC) concludes its three-game road trip against Central (9-18, 1-5) Friday at 7:30 p.m.
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The Series
The Dutch hold the all-time series lead at 56-18-1, but the Knights have won the last three-straight and six of the last seven.
Wartburg
Senior Aryn Jones (Marion) has a team-best 324 kills, 3.95 kills/set, .371 hitting percentage and is second with 28 service aces. Junior Lizzy Blough (Dike) joins her in triple digits with 213 kills and a team-high 29 aces. Senior Maddie Miller (Johnston), freshman Kylie Bildstein (Dyersville), and junior Mallary Erbes (Urbandale) round out the leading hitters with 138 and 114, and 105 kills, respectively.
Senior Maria Brown (Peosta) leads the setters with 427 assists and Erbes (Urbandale) follows with 395 in the 6-2 system.
Freshman Katie Foster (Charles City) has 418 digs.
Career Leader Lists
Brown has now moved into seventh on the all-time career leader list with 1,673 assists to date.
Central
Kylie Gerstein and Jenna Dille are the leading hitters for the Dutch with 212 and 205 kills, respectively. Chapel Carter has 484 assists and Regan Nelson has 403. Nelson also leads the team at the service line with 41 aces.
National Stat Rankings
Wartburg ranks in the top 100 of eight statistical categories, which the NCAA released Monday.
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The Knights rank 18
th in blocks per set (2.06), 36
th in team total blocks (161), 42
nd in kills per set (12.81), 49
th in hitting percentage (.223), 58
th in match won-lost percentage (.762), 62
nd in assists per set (11.63), 90
th in team kills (999), and 96
th in digs per set (17.21).
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Individually, two Knights rank in the top 100 of eight statistical categories. Jones ranks 10
th in points per set (4.98), 16
th in hitting percentage (.377), 21
st in kills per set (4.0), 40
th in total kills (308), 77
th in blocks per set (.91), and 79
th in total blocks (70), and Foster ranks 85
th in digs per set (5.09) and 87
th in total digs (397).
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