WAVERLY, Iowa-- The Wartburg volleyball team (11-8 overall, 4-1 American Rivers Conference) hosts
Loras (14-7, 2-2) Friday at 7:30 p.m. and then
UW-Platteville (7-15) at 10 a.m. and St. Thomas (16-7) at noon Saturday in the Wartburg Quad.
Both programs bring a four-match winning streak into Friday's match.
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The Series
Wartburg holds the all-time series lead at 44-15 over
Loras, which includes the last three-straight.
UW-Platteville leads 18-13, though the Knights have won the last three-straight. St. Thomas lead 16-5, but the Orange and Black won last year's meeting in the NCAA Tournament.
Wartburg
Senior Lizzy
Blough (Dike) leads the team with 227 kills and 4.13 kills/set. Freshman Jayme
Willemssen (Waverly) follows with 1674 kills and sophomore Kylie
Bildstein (Dyersville) also has triple digit kills with 145.
Bildstein leads the Knights with a team-best .266 hitting percentage.
Senior
Mallary Erbes paces the team with 606 assists and a team leading 36 service aces.
Katie Foster leads the Knights with 258 digs on the season.
Bildstein has a team-best 56 total blocks.Â
Career Record Watch
Mallary Erbes ranks seventh in assists (1,800).
Erbes needs 38 more assists to move into sixth.Â
Loras
Jenna
LaCorte leads the team with 197 kills and 31 service aces. Michelle
Budden has 183, Kelly
Boge follows at 163, and Kayla Kinney has 135.
UW-Platteville
Olivia
Kudronowicz leads the team with 217 kills and 29 service aces. Three teammates join her in triple digits as Hailey
Youngren has 155,
Kaite Asche follows at 141 and Katie Jones has 108.
St. Thomas
Madie Kroehler has a team-best 223 kills. Grace
Bordson follows at 196, Julia
Spacek has 177, Audrey Erickson has 153 and Fran Egan rounds out those in triple digits with 138. Ellie Meyer leads the team from the service line with 39 aces.
National Stat Rankings
Wartburg ranks in the top 100 of four statistical categories, which the NCAA released Monday.
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The Knights rank 39
th in digs per set (18.53), 40
th in team attacks per set (37.72), 44
th in blocks per set (1.91), and 92
nd in team total blocks (122.5).
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Individually, two Knights rank in the top 100 of five statistical categories: Blough ranks 1
st in attacks per set (13.56), 22
nd in kills per set (4.06), 34
th in points per set (4.48), and 71
st in total attacks (705); and Erbes ranks 84
th in assists per set (9.13).