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Women's Volleyball By: Daniel Gallegos

Golden Suns remain on the road for final non-conference match

Women's Volleyball By: Daniel Gallegos

Golden Suns remain on the road for final non-conference match

MATCH INFORMATION

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ARKANSAS TECH
GOLDEN SUNS

11-13
LANE COLLEGE
DRAGONS
7-15

Tuesday, October 29 | 6 p.m.
JF Lane Gymnasium | Jackson, Tenn.

LIVE STATS | LIVE VIDEO
FIRST SERVE
The Arkansas Tech volleyball team remains on the road on Tuesday night as they travel to Jackson, Tenn. to take on Lane College for their final non-conference match of the season.
 
The match, which is scheduled to start at 6 p.m., hopefully will have live stats and video available with both links being found at: www.ArkansasTechSports.com/coverage
 
TECH(NICALLY) SPEAKING
The Golden Suns are 11-13 overall and are looking to bounce back from an 0-2 weekend trip to Oklahoma where they lost on the road to Oklahoma Baptist and Southern Nazarene.
 
Offensively, the Golden Suns are averaging 12.6 kills/set and have a .195 team attack percentage. They have three players with at least 200 kills and are led by Savannah Meyer and her 323 kills. Jordon Clouse has the highest attack percentage on the team among prominent attackers at .339 (111k-257att-243err).
 
The Golden Suns have settled on their primary setter with Emma Kiser pacing the offense. Kiser's assist total now stands at 770. Since taking over as primary setter, Kiser has had 30 or more assists in a match 13 times.
 
Defensively the Golden Suns are averaging 15.2 digs/set and 1.8 blocks per set. Jamie Myrick leads the team in digs with 425. Sierra Orton currently leads the team in blocks with 72.0.
 
The head coach of the Golden Suns is Kera Coleman. She is in her seventh year as head coach of her alma mater and eighth overall. In her time at Tech, Coleman is 84-99. Overall, she's 103-111.
 
SCOUTING THE OPPONENTS
LANE COLLEGE
The Dragons are 7-15 overall and are coming off a winning weekend at SIAC West Cluster as they won two of their three matches, earning victories against Tuskegee University and Miles College.
 
Offensively, the Dragons are averaging 9.6 kills/set and have a .094 team attack percentage. They have three players with at least 100 kills and are led by Kyra Gaston and her 188 kills. Gaston also has the highest attack percentage on the team among prominent attackers at .278 (188k-442att-65err).
 
The Dragons have split time at setter and have rotated among three with Syraia Harvey, Shaniah Jones and Amirah Alexander each having at least 150 assists. Jones is currently the leader with 265. Alexander is next with 174 while Harvey has 156.
 
Defensively the Dragons are averaging 12.5 digs/set and 1.6 blocks per set. Anayah Goss leads the team in digs with 230. Four different Dragons have registered at least 25.0 blocks thus far with Kyra Gaston leading the way with 39.0 blocks.
 
The head coach of the Dragons is Alexis Emanuel. She is in her third year as the head coach at Lane and has a current career record of 44-59.
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