MATCH INFORMATION
ARKANSAS TECH GOLDEN SUNS 1-18	LANE COLLEGE DRAGONS 7-20
Tuesday, October 17 | 6 p.m. Tucker Coliseum | Russellville, Ark. LIVE STATS | LIVE VIDEO

FIRST SERVE
The Arkansas Tech volleyball team is back at home this week for a trio of matches inside Tucker Coliseum. Just this last week, the Golden Suns had a three-match week, but did so on the road. The first of their three home matches this week is a non-conference match against Lane College on Tuesday night.
 
First-serve against Lane is scheduled for 6 p.m.
 
This will be the first-ever match between Lane and Arkansas Tech.
 

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TECH(NICALLY) SPEAKING
The Golden Suns enter Tuesday's non-conference match against Lane College 1-18 overall. They most-recently played a pair of road conference matches over the weekend at Southwestern Oklahoma and at Northwestern Oklahoma. The Golden Suns would drop both matches.
 
Offensively, the Golden Suns are averaging 10.8 kills/set and have a .137 team attack percentage. They have three players with at least 100 kills and are led by Kaitlyn Neal and her 147 kills. Jordan Clouse has the highest attack percentage on the team at .261 (56-kills, 153-attempts, 16-errors).
 
The Golden Suns' primary setter has been Gracie Palmer. Of the team's 666 assists registered thus far, Palmer has accounted for 353. She enters the match against Lane 19 assists shy of 1,000 for her career.
 
Defensively the Golden Suns are averaging 13.3 digs/set and 1.4 blocks per set. Jamie Myrick leads the team in digs with 253. Lauren Grier currently leads the team in blocks with 53.0.
 
The head coach of the Golden Suns is Kera Coleman. She is in her sixth year as head coach of her alma mater and seventh overall. In her time at Tech, Coleman is 71-79. Overall, she's 90-91­.
 

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SCOUTING THE OPPONENTS
Lane College
Lane comes into Tuesday night's non-conference match against Tech with a 7-20 overall record. The Dragons are currently in the midst of a three-match losing streak with their last win coming on October 6 against Central State.
 
This will be the Dragons' fourth match against a team from the GAC with previous contests against Southeastern Oklahoma, Henderson State and Ouachita. Lane is 0-3 in those matches will all three being sweeps.
 
Offensively, the Dragons are averaging 8.9 kills/set and have a .099 team attack percentage. They have four players with at least 100 kills and are led by Anayah Goss and her 183 kills. Kyra Gaston has the highest attack percentage among prominent attackers on the team at .208 (123-kills, 318-attacks, 57-errors).
 
The Dragons have split time at the setter position between Amirah Alexander and Syaria Harvey. The two have combined for 592 of the team's 752 assists registered thus far. Alexander has the most assists with 383, while Harvey has 209.
 
Defensively the Dragons are averaging 12.5 digs/set and 1.4 blocks per set. Da'luana LaMaster and Anayah Goss lead the team in digs with 173 each. At the net, Kyra Gaston and Maia Thompson lead the team with 37.0 blocks each.
 
The head coach of the Dragons is Alexis Emanuel. She is in her second year as head coach at Lane. In her time at Lane, Emanuel has a 33-36 record.