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Lady Buffs Battle with Texas A&M-Kingsville in the LSC Quarterfinals

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CANYON, Texas – The Lady Buffs will make their 23rd appearance in the Lone Star Conference Championship as the fifth seed as they take on the fourth seeded Texas A&M-Kingsville on Thursday night at 5 p.m. at Wisdom Gym in Stephenville, Texas.
 
- SCOUTING THE OPPONENT
TEXAS A&M-KINGSVILLE
The Javelinas are led by seventh year head coach Tanya Allen who led Kingsville to the program's first ever NCAA South Central Regional Tournament appearance in 2016.
 
TAMUK enters the weekend with an overall record of 21-11 as they finished Lone Star Conference play with a mark of 13-7 to tie for third place. The Javelinas have won their last four contests including wins at Midwestern State and Cameron last weekend.
 
The Javelinas are led by Madison Brabham who has registered 323 kills (2.83/set) on 837 swings with 143 attack errors to hit .215 on the season. Casey Klobedans paces the TAMUK offense with 1,204 assists (10.12/set) while Jasmine Jasinto leads the way defensively with 434 digs (3.81/set).
 
TAMUK has registered 1,575 kills (13.2/set) on 4,277 attempts with 607 attack errors to hit .226 as a team so far this season. They average 12.3 assists and 1.3 service aces per set while tallying 2,019 digs (17.0/set) and 230.0 total blocks (1.9/set) on the season.
 
THE SERIES WITH TAMUK
The Lady Buffs lead the all-time series against TAMUK, 50-12 in a series dating back to 1980. WT snapped a three-match Javelina win streak back on Oct. 7th with a Lady Buff four-set win in Canyon before Kingsville claimed a four-set win at home on November 4th.
 
The Lady Buffs are 1-2 all-time against TAMUK on a neutral court. WT is 2-1 all-time against the Javelinas in postseason action with all three of those meetings coming at the LSC Tournament.
 
LAST MEETING
The Lady Buffs hit .189 as a team and committed 23 attack errors back on November 4th as they snapped a six-match win streak with a four set loss to the Javelinas of Texas A&M-Kingsville at the Steinke Center in Kingsville, Texas.
 
The Lady Buffs hit .189 as a team with 57 kills on 180 attempts with 23 attack errors to go along with 54 assists, five service aces, 66 digs and four total blocks.
 
Senior Crystal Thomas led the Lady Buffs offensively with a career-high 18 kills on 29 swings with just two attack errors to hit .552 on the afternoon. Selena Batiste paced the WT offense with 36 assists while Chandler Vogel tallied 17 digs.
 
LADY BUFFS IN THE LSC TOURNAMENT
The Lady Buffs enter the 2017 LSC Tournament for the 23rd overall time and the 13th consecutive season. WT holds an overall record of 43-7 (.860) in the LSC Tournament. WT has made 16 appearances in the Championship Match with a 15-1 overall record as the Lady Buffs will be going for their 16th LSC Tournament Championship this weekend.
 
SOUTH CENTRAL REGIONAL RANKINGS
The Lady Buffs remained eighth in the NCAA Division II Volleyball South Central regional rankings announced on Wednesday afternoon.
 
Regis sits atop of the rankings followed by Tarleton State, Colorado School of Mines, Angelo State, Metro State, Texas A&M-Commerce, Arkansas-Fort Smith, WT, Texas A&M-Kingsville and Colorado Christian.
 
LSC POSTSEASON AWARDS
Four members of the West Texas A&M Lady Buffs were honored for their efforts on the court on Wednesday night as the LSC announced their annual volleyball postseason awards.
 
Senior Crystal Thomas was named to the LSC First Team while Selena Batiste and Erin Clark were honored with a spot on the 2nd Team, senior Kamille Jones was named to the Honorable Mention Team. Clark was also tabbed the Lone Star Conference Freshman of the Year as the Scottsdale native becomes the eighth Lady Buff to earn the award, joining Ambra Clark (2003), Kendra Morgan (2000), Shannon Stroud (1999), Holly Morgan (1995), Ana Carolina Pereira (1990), Kristi Gray (1987) and Julie Myatt (1986).
 
HOME DOMINANCE
West Texas A&M is fortunate to have one of the best home environments in all of NCAA Volleyball, in any division. The WTAMU Fieldhouse is more affectionately known as "The Box," is home to 19 Lone Star Conference Championships, 13 Regional Titles and three NCAA Division II National Championships. "The Box" boats one of the best home winning records in the NCAA on any level of competition. The Lady Buffs are 467-74 at The Box since the 1980 season for an incredible winning percentage of 86.2%.
 
WT HEAD COACH JASON SKOCH
WT head coach Jason Skoch, a four-time LSC Coach of the Year, is now in his ninth season at the helm of the Lady Buffs, carrying an overall career record of 390-93 (.807, 12th year) including a 254-73 (.777) mark in Canyon. Skoch has led the Lady Buffs to seven appearances in the NCAA Postseason with three South Central Regional Titles and a National Runner-Up finish in 2009.
 
LIVE COVERAGE
The Lone Star Conference will provide live stats and video this weekend. For more information, visit the Volleyball Schedule Page at GoBuffsGo.com.
 
YOUTH MOVEMENT
The Lady Buffs have played in 112 sets during 32 matches so far during the 2017 season. True freshman Chandler Vogel has started 31 of those matches at libero while four other freshman have made appearances in the starting lineup so far this season for the Lady Buffs.
 
THE LONE STAR CONFERENCE
Entering the week, LSC teams were 169-163 overall this season. The squads are currently 15-17 combined versus Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference teams, and 13-6 against the Heartland Conference, which are the other leagues in the NCAA South Central Region.
 
AVCA DIVISION II TOP-25 POLL (NOV. 13)
Concordia-St. Paul picked up 40 of the possible 48 first place votes in this week's AVCA Division II Top-25 Poll announced on Monday afternoon by the association's offices.
 
The Golden Bears sit atop of the poll with 1,192 points followed by Cal Baptist (7 first, 1,149), Lewis (1 first, 1,090), Southwest Minnesota State (1,062), Western Washington (980), Minnesota Duluth (863), Nebraska-Kearney (848), Arkansas Tech (808), Northern State (781) and Palm Beach Atlantic (754) to round out the top ten. The South Central Region was represented by Regis (11th), Tarleton State (15th), Colorado School of Mines (17th), Angelo State (25th) and Metro State (RV).
 
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