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Texas Woman's vs. UT Tyler
TWU: 12-8, 3-5 LSC | UTT: 12-7, 5-3 LSC
Friday, Oct. 14th | 5 P.M.
Tyler, Texas | Herrington Patriot Center |
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Midwestern State at UT Tyler
MSU: 4-16, 2-6 LSC | UTT: 12-7, 5-3 LSC
Saturday, Oct. 15th | 2 P.M.
Tyler, Texas | Herrington Patriot Center |
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A SLOW START AND A STRONG FINISH
The UT Tyler volleyball program got off to a sluggish start in last weekend's home stand against Texas A&M International, falling to the Dustdevils on Friday night by a 3-2 final. The Patriots had match point in the fourth set up 24-21, but five straight points from the Dustdevils completely turned the tide of the contest and allowed Texas A&M International to force a fifth set. Texas A&M International secured the 15-11 victory in that final frame, snapping the Patriot's 18 straight regular season home match winning streak. Senior
Mikayla Ware led the Patriots with 18 kills, while junior
Evelyn Torres chipped in 15 to highlight a slow offensive outing for the squad. The Patriot's defense stood strong, as five different players total double-digit digs, led by a 19-dig output from senior
Savannah Guzman. UT Tyler hit just .146 as a team, and committed an uncharacteristic 29 attacking errors in the contest, while putting down 59 kills. The Patriots defensive work at the net kept them in the majority of the match with 14.0 total blocks, but the cold offensive effort for UT Tyler ultimately couldn't be overcome in the late stages. Saturday was a different story as UT Tyler responded after a first set loss with three straight victories to find their form in a 3-1 win over Texas A&M-Kingsville. UT Tyler found their footing offensively after struggling on Friday night in 25-20 and 25-13 third and fourth set victories, posting team hitting percentages of .326 and .268 in the frames. Seniors
Mikayla Ware (15),
Hannah Callison (12) and freshman
Jeorgia Jones (10) all registered double-digit kills on an afternoon in which the UT Tyler offense totaled 55 kills. The Patriots posted 32 of those kills in the third and fourth sets with 19 and 14 respectively, and posted a much-improved .201 team hitting percentage in the match. Ware and setter
Adeline Ortman both reached double-digit figures for a second-straight match with Ware adding 21 digs to her 15 kills and Ortman posting 24 assists and 13 digs.
WHAT COACH MASHE IS SAYING
On how the mindset has changed of the team after an unexpected loss against Texas A&M International... "Our mindset should change, our back's are against the wall and we've seen different seasons where you start out a little rocky, but then you really get rolling at the right time and here's our opportunity. We have alot of things to address moving forward this week to make sure that our mindset is the right one so that we can finish the way that we want to finish."
On how Saturday's balanced offense was a welcomed sight for the team... "Every single person out there has the ability to be an offensive force, but it's just a matter of having the consistency. I thought that
Hannah Callison had a really good game on Saturday,
Jeorgia Jones getting her first full start and match had a great day for us as a freshman, we need people like that to be spark plugs for us right now and we're looking for that to help us really get going the way we need to."
On what to expect this weekend and how to build on the late game momentum generated last weekend... "We really did play well at the end of the Texas A&M-Kingsville match. I just go back to our mindset, we can't just get up for what are in our minds the big games, we've got to show up for every game. This conference is loaded and you can't ever walk into a game thinking just because you've beaten a team three years in a row that you're not going to get a good game ouf of them. Every game is a big game from here on out and we have to treat each of them that way."
THE MATCH UPS
Texas Woman's enters Friday night's match with a 12-8 overall record and a 3-5 mark in Lone Star Conference play. The Pioneers won last weekend against Cameron, and then fell by a 3-1 final to West Texas A&M. Texas Woman's ranks eighth in the LSC with a team hitting percentage of .188, and concedes the 10th best opponent hitting percentage with a .182. The Pioneers present a strong blocking effort with an average of 2.22 per set, and are led defensively by libero Yanely Pabon, who ranks fourth in the LSC with an average of 4.83 digs per set. UT Tyler has won five straight matches against Texas Woman's dating back to the 2021 season.
Midwestern State will take on DBU on Friday night prior to the meeting with UT Tyler on Saturday, and have posted an 0-6 record so far on the road in 2022. The Mustangs are 4-16 on the year and 2-6 in LSC play, but will be coming off of a 3-0 win over Cameron in their most recent action. The Mustangs ranks fourth in the LSC with 1,296 digs on the year, and our led by freshman Taygon Jones, who ranks second in the LSC with 5.20 digs per set. Midwestern State ranks seventh in the LSC with 12.37 kills per set. Midwestern State leads the all-time series 2-1 over UT Tyler, with the Patriots getting the better of the Mustangs in the most recent meeting by a 3-1 final.
HARD TO BEAT AT HOME
UT Tyler has won 19 out of their last 20 regular season home matches dating back to the 2019 season. The Patriots completed the Spring of 2021 season and the 2021 season with undefeated regular season records at home, and have lost just one home match in the regular season since Nov. 15th, 2019 in a 3-0 loss against Texas A&M-Commerce. UT Tyler lost the 2021 Spring Lone Star Conference Volleyball Postseason Tournament Championship game against Angelo State by a 3-2 final on their home floor, but have conceded just a single regular season home match in three seasons.
A LOOK AT THE STANDINGS
UT Tyler enters this weekend's matches in a tie for fifth place in the Lone Star Conference regular season standings with a league record of 5-3. West Texas A&M stands at the top of the league with a record of 8-0, while DBU and Texas A&M International both have suffered just a single loss in league play.
STAT CHECK
UT Tyler ranks fourth in the Lone Star Conference with a team hitting percentage of .208 for the year, and fifth in the league with an average of 13.03 kills per set. The Patriots average the sixth most service aces per set with an average of 1.59 per set, and concede the third fewest opponents service aces per set with just 1.01 per set. Defensively the Patriots have limited their opposition to a .171 hitting percentage in 2022, sixth best in the LSC, and average 2.03 blocks per set, 10th best in the league. Ware leads the Lone Star Conference in points per set (4.87) and ranks second in kills per set (4.34). She ranks 12th in all of Division II volleyball in points per set and 13th in the nation in kills per set. Sophomore
Adeline Ortman ranks second in the LSC with an average of 0.45 service aces per set, and fifth in the league with an average of 8.03 assists per set.
COACH MASHE
Head coach
Lyndsay Mashe is in the midst of her seventh season as the program's all-time winningest coach with 120 wins as head coach of the Patriots. Mashe is 120-48 (.720) as the leader of the Patriots. The 2021 Spring Lone Star Conference Coach of the Year is now 314-170 (.650) as a collegiate head coach after six seasons at UT Tyler and 10 seasons at East Texas Baptist.
RECORD WATCH
Guzman sits third in the program's all-time record books with 1,471 digs and counting. The all-time leader in program history is Megan McCarty, who totaled 1,763 digs in 408 sets from 2005-08. Ware currently holds the program's all-time record with an average of 3.77 kills per set and ranks seventh in program history with 757 total kills for her career.
