WAVERLY, Iowa-- Wartburg (13-3 overall, 3-0 IIAC) travels to face Luther (10-6, 2-1) Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. The Knights enter the evening on a three-match winning streak.
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The Series
Wartburg owns the all-time series lead at 40-30, but the Norse won last year's meeting, 3-1. The Knights have won 11 of the last 12.
Wartburg
Senior Aryn Jones (Marion) has a team-best 245 kills, 4.08 kills/set, .377 hitting percentage and 25 service aces. Junior Lizzy Blough (Dike) joins her in triple digits with 157.
Senior Maria Brown (Peosta) leads the setters with 309 assists and junior Mallary Erbes (Urbandale) follows with 278 in the 6-2 system.
Freshman Katie Foster (Charles City) has 307 digs.
Career Leader Lists
Brown has 1,555 set assists, which ranks eighth on the program's all-time career leader list.
Luther
Anna Larson leads her team with 184 kills. Three teammates join her in triple digits as Emma Veum has 168, Karissa Kime has 147 and Morgan Towne has 120. Kime has a team-best 28 service aces.
National Stat Rankings
Wartburg ranks in the top 100 of ten statistical categories, which the NCAA released Monday.
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The Knights rank 26
th in blocks per set (2.05), 38
th in team total blocks (123), 41
st in match won-lost percentage (.813), 49
th in kills per set (12.65), 65
th in hitting percentage (.213), 74
th in assists per set (11.43), 82
nd in team kills (759), 93
rd in team attacks per set (35.98), 96
th in team assists (686), and 100
th in digs per set (17.12).
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Individually, two Knights rank in the top 100 of eight statistical categories: Jones ranks 9
th in points per set (5.13), 15
th in hitting percentage (.377), 21
st in kills per set (4.08), 28
th in total kills (245), 54
th in total blocks (55), and 73
rd in blocks per set (0.92), and Foster ranks 73
rd in total digs (307) and 84
th in digs per set (5.12).