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Women's Volleyball By: Daniel Gallegos

Golden Suns take brief break from GAC action to host Lane College on Tuesday

Women's Volleyball By: Daniel Gallegos

Golden Suns take brief break from GAC action to host Lane College on Tuesday

MATCH INFORMATION

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ARKANSAS TECH
GOLDEN SUNS

8-8
LANE COLLEGE
DRAGONS
3-10

Tuesday, October 8 | 6 p.m.
Tucker Coliseum | Russellville, Ark.

LIVE STATS | LIVE VIDEO
FIRST SERVE
The Arkansas Tech volleyball team will take a momentary break from their Great American Conference schedule on Tuesday night as they return home to host Lane College in a non-conference match.
 
The match, which is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. from Tucker Coliseum, will have live stats and video available with both links being found at: www.ArkansasTechSports.com/coverage
 
TECH(NICALLY) SPEAKING
The Golden Suns are 8-8 overall and are coming off a 3-0 loss on the road at Ouachita Baptist last Thursday.
 
Offensively, the Golden Suns are averaging 12.1 kills/set and have a .186 team attack percentage. They have three players with at least 130 kills and are led by Savannah Meyer and her 183 kills. Jordon Clouse has the highest attack percentage on the team among prominent attackers at .335 (73k-167att-17err).
 
The Golden Suns have settled on their primary setter with Emma Kiser pacing the offense. Kiser's assist total now stands at 490. Since taking over as primary setter, Kiser has had 30 or more assists in a match nine times.
 
Defensively the Golden Suns are averaging 14.7 digs/set and 1.9 blocks per set. Jamie Myrick leads the team in digs with 290. Jordan Clouse and Sierra Orton currently lead the team in blocks with 50.0.
 
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 81-94. Overall, she's 100-106.
 
SCOUTING THE OPPONENTS
LANE COLLEGE
The Dragons are 3-10 overall and have lost their last four matches. Most-recently, Lane was swept on the road at Ouachita Baptist.
 
Offensively, the Dragons are averaging 9.2 kills/set and have a .086 team attack percentage. They have three players with at least 50 kills and are led by Kyra Gaston and her 99 kills. Gaston also has the highest attack percentage on the team among prominent attackers at .230 (99k-269att-37err).
 
The Dragons have split time at setter and have rotated among three with Syraia Harvey, Shaniah Jones and Amirah Alexander each having at least 100 assists. Harvey is currently the leader with 119.
 
Defensively the Dragons are averaging 13.0 digs/set and 1.5 blocks per set. Anayah Goss leads the team in digs with 163. Three different Dragons have registered at least double-digit 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 40-54.
 
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