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Home Schedule Opens Hosting Chap Classic Thursday – Lubbock Christian University Athletics
LUBBOCK, Texas (September 1, 2022) – The Lubbock Christian College Woman Chaparrals open their residence schedule and play within the Chap Basic Thursday internet hosting Southwestern Oklahoma State at 2 p.m. inside Rip Griffin Middle. The match is the primary of 4 matches LCU will play within the Chap Basic, which runs via Saturday.
| 2022 Chap Basic | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OPPONENT | LOCATION | DAY | TIME (CT) | WATCH | STATS |
| Southwestern Okla. St. | Rip Griffin Middle 🎫 | Thur, Sept. 1 | 2 p.m. | Video | Stats |
LOOKING AT SOUTHWESTERN OKLA. STATE
– LCU and SWOSU are assembly for the seventh time all time and the fifth time since 2016. The Woman Chaps have a 4-2 all-time sequence lead after ending a two-match shedding skid to SWOSU with a 3-0 win in Lubbock on Sept. 12, 2019. Three of the final 4 conferences have been in Lubbock.
– SWOSU is a member of the Nice American Convention (GAC), the place they’re preseason picked tied for second within the convention. They went 20-8 final season, ending in a share of second place within the GAC (13-3). SWOSU has completed throughout the high three of the GAC standings over every of the prior 4 seasons.
– The Bulldogs are 1-3 to open the season, going 1-3 at a basic hosted by Missouri Southern State in Joplin, Mo.
– Macie Morgan is the Bulldogs go-to goal. She ranks 12th nationally via the opening week of the common season with 11.3 assaults per set (her 158 whole assaults ranks 28th nationally). She averages 3.79 kills per set, which is second within the GAC and 45th nationally.
– As a staff, SWOSU ranks 33rd nationally in assists per set (12.57), with setter Terez Chavez rating fifth within the GAC and 34th nationally with a tempo of 10.14 assists per set.
LADY CHAP NOTES
– LCU is 1-3 on the younger season after opening the season on the Seawolf Invitational in Anchorage, Alaska. They concluded their play Saturday with a 3-0 win over Emmanuel Faculty (Ga.), who was coming off an enormous win over Level Loma.
– Freshman Lily Bickley leads the staff in kills following the opening weekend of play, as she has 42 kills (12th within the convention) at a charge of three.5 per set (eighth within the convention). Bickley is liable for 3.92 factors per set (11th within the LSC) and she or he ranks ninth within the LSC in hitting proportion (.322). Saturday in opposition to Alaska Fairbanks had an assault mark of .625 within the match. Since 2008, Bickley’s assault proportion was the fourth highest produced by a Woman Chap and the very best since Jaiden Kennedy posted a .700 mark on October 11, 2018.
– LCU has 16 gamers on the roster and all 16 participated in motion over the opening weekend in Alaska. Included within the combine was Hailey Cournoyer, who produced 4 blocks (two solo) and a kill in a pair of units performed. She suffered a season-ending harm on January 26, 2021 (second recreation of the COVID-shortened season that was moved to the spring), which compelled her to overlook the rest of that season and your entire 2021 season (the conventional fall season). All 4 freshman (Bickley, Olivia Elofsson, Payton Murray and Allie Rice) noticed motion as nicely.
– Setter Kayton Genenbacher was named to the Seawolf Invitational All-Match Staff after contributing 135 assists in 14 units for a charge of 9.6 per set (each whole and assists per set rank fourth within the LSC). She produced new profession excessive marks on the weekend, together with back-to-back 40-assist performances in matches in opposition to Pittsburg State and Alaska Fairbanks. In opposition to Pittsburg State, she produced her second profession double-double, which featured 40 assists and 13 digs to go together with 5 kills. The sophomore had two serving aces in LCU’s win over Emmanuel.
– Sophomore Libero Kendall Mahaney, who was two digs shy of a career-high mark Friday in opposition to Pittsburg State (posting 26 digs), leads the staff with 72 digs (seventh within the LSC and 28th nationally) and is at a tempo of 5.14 per set (third within the LSC and 21st nationally).
– Saturday in opposition to Emmanuel, Zoe Parker notched LCU’s 10th efficiency of 5 or extra aces in a three-set match since 2008, and have become the second Woman Chaps member to do it twice in the identical span. Her manufacturing of 5 aces within the match tied for third (since 2008) for essentially the most aces by a Woman Chaps member in a three-set match. Parker has eight aces on the season, which ranks her fourth within the convention, and she or he additionally ranks sixth with 0.57 aces per set.
– LCU’s high staff class getting into the weekend is rating 56th in whole blocks with a 29.0. Sage Chain leads LCU rating 11th within the LSC with a tempo of 1.0 blocks per set (14 whole on the season, rating ninth within the LSC). In opposition to Alaska Fairbanks, Chain produced 4 solo blocks. With match-by-match document information available since 2008, the 4 solo blocks tied for essentially the most by a Woman Chaps member. There have been six matches since 2008 with the mark and Chain, who additionally accomplished the duty on Feb 2, 2021 (vs. UT Permian Basin), grew to become the primary Woman Chaps member (since 2008) to finish 4 solo blocks in a match twice. As a staff, LCU had 5 solo blocks registered in opposition to UAF and it matched final season’s season-high mark (Sept. 17, 2021).
– Thursday marks LCU’s residence debut. The Woman Chaps, who closed out the house schedule final season with a 3-2 win over No.25 West Texas A&M, went 8-1 at residence final season (closed profitable their final 4 residence matches).