CHATTANOOGA – The Chattanooga indoor volleyball team enters the final week of the regular season winning three of their last four matches. The Mocs look to bring the momentum back to Maclellan Gym on Tuesday night as the squad hosts the ETSU Buccaneers at 6 p.m.
MATCH CENTRAL
ETSU at UTC | 6 PM |
LIVE STATS
LAST WEEK'S RECAP
Chattanooga went 1-1 last week after defeating league-leading Mercer in five sets before falling to Samford on the road. The five-set victory over the Bears snapped a six-match losing skid to Mercer. The Mocs are 3-0 in SoCon five setters this season after the win. UTC enters the final week of the regular season 9-18 overall and 5-9 in SoCon play.
SOCON STANDINGS
All nine teams have two matches remaining entering the last week of the regular season. Mercer will win at least a share of the regular-season title and the No. 1 seed in the tournament by winning one of its two remaining contests. There are three teams tied for fourth place at 7-7 followed by The Citadel in seventh and Chattanooga in eighth place. Due to tiebreak scenarios, all five teams have the potential to be the No. 8 seed at the end of the regular season. Furman is 2-12 and will be the nine seed.
LAST TIME OUT VS. ETSU
ETSU swept the Mocs in Johnson City on Oct. 12. The Buccaneers won the first 10 points of the match, but all three sets were decided by six points or less.
Gylian Finch led the match with 11 kills and fellow senior,
Maia Rackel was right behind her with 10.
Paige Gallentine dominated the match with 25 digs, averaging more than eight per set. ETSU's Sara Esposito posted 10 kills and four aces.
GALLENTINE PACING THE BACK ROW
Paige Gallentine, a second-year libero out of Fenton, Mich., leads the team with 521 digs, averaging 5.06 per set. She is the only player in the league with more than 500 digs this season and she is one of 14 players in the nation to have reached that mark. Gallentine has registered 20 more or digs in each of the last four matches and seven of the last 10.
SETTING THE OFFENSE
Second-year setter,
Sophia Bossong, is averaging 8.18 assists per set with 843 this season. In SoCon action, she is posting 9.00/set which is sixth in the league.
SCOUTING ETSU
The Bucs enter the contest at 11-14 and 7-7 in SoCon play. They have dropped their last two matches with a three-set defeat at Samford followed by a four-set loss to Mercer. Offensively, Josannah Vazquez leads the team with 3.36 kills per set and is eight shy of 300 on the season. Senior right-side, Sara Esposito records 3.16 kills per set for the Mocs. First-year setter, Caroline Dykes, is averaging almost nine assists per set this season and has split a little bit of time with Anna Mayer. Florida State transfer Taylor Roberts leads the back row with 4.36 digs per set as the primary starting libero.
SERIES HISTORY
ETSU is 41-32 against UTC and has won the last 10 contests.
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