Date/Time/Location: Adams State: Friday, October 17, 2025, at 6 PM at A2 Arena in Spearfish, S.D.

New Mexico Highlands: Saturday, October 18 at 5:30 PM at A2 Arena in Spearfish, S.D.

Tickets: Tickets for each match can be found at the link above. 

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• Black Hills State is entering this home stand 5-21 and 1-13 in the RMAC which puts them in a tie for 12th place in the conference with two other teams: Chadron State and Regis. The Yellow Jackets are coming off a tough road trip versus two top teams in the conference where they were shutout 6-0 in sets over the weekend. The Jackets had one set in each match where they put up 22 or more points and couldn’t pull out the win in the set, but fought in almost every one of them.
• The Yellow Jackets top stat categories this year have been team attacks per set (34.43), hitting percentage (.162), blocks per set (1.55), team total attacks (1,997), and digs per set (14.28).
• Black Hills State was predicted to finish 15th in the conference in the preseason RMAC Coaches’ Poll after finishing 15th in the conference last season. They are currently sitting in a tie for tenth after a 1-5 start in conference play.
• Emily Freeland is having an incredible start to the season. After tying her career high in kills with 20 in the season opener versus Augustana, Freeland has continued to pile on the kills. She currently sits at 171 kills which is tenth in the RMAC. She’s tenth in kills per set with 2.95. Freeland has had ten or more kills in seven of the 16 matches this season. She also is second on the team in digs with 121 and is leading the team in receptions with 355 and 194.0. She is coming off a down weekend where she combined for only 15 kills over the two games finishing with less than ten in both of them but had a .353 hitting percentage in the first matchup vs MSU Denver.
• Libero Ellie Thomas has been one of the top Liberos in the RMAC this year. She ranks second in total digs with 263 and second in digs per set with 4.53. She also has 11 aces including a career high five in the matchup versus Augustana. Thomas has had 15 or more digs in eight of the 15 games and has reached ten in all of them. She is coming off a solid weekend getting 30 digs in six sets, which averages to five digs per set and getting 17 in the matchup versus UCCS where she averaged nearly six per set. She also had two aces in the matchup versus UCCS.
• BHSU is running a two-setter system, so Sydnie Tuioti-Mariner and Elena Atkinson are both taking on setting duties this year. Tuioti-Mariner had an All-Tournament honor in Minot after leading BHSU with 62 assists and also having seven aces including five in the game versus Minot State. Atkinson had 57 assists that weekend and is leading the season with 247 to Tuioti-Mariner’s 211 combining 458 assists between the two of them. They have also combined 163 digs. Tuioti-Mariner continues to lead each weekend with 18 assists over the two games, while Atkinson only played in the four sets this weekend and had 11 assists. Emma Kruger has also started getting action recently and led the team in assists with eight versus UCCS.
• Jaeda Davis-Golliher has been the top middle for BHSU, she leads the team with 36 total blocks while also having 90 kills and 11 aces. She has had a block in all but three games and had three in the matchup versus CSUP. She has had three or more kills in all but two matches including a season high of ten in the game versus WCU. She had eight kills this past weekend and five total blocks with six of those kills coming in the UCCS game and three of those blocks also happened then. She had an over .300 hitting percentage in both games and has now reached that mark in 50% of the games this year.
• Head coach Grayson DuBose enters his first season with the Yellow Jackets but has 14 years of head coaching experience at the D1 level prior to joining BHSU. He was head coach at Utah State for all 14 years and has a 194-240 career record with two WAC Coach of the Year awards and one NCAA Division 1 Tournament appearance.

• Adams State enters the matchup versus BHSU 8-9 (3-3 RMAC) and sits in a tie for 7th fighting to get a bid in the RMAC tournament. They faced three top 10 teams in their first six games but have now won four in a row and five of the last six after sweeping the RMAC Regional Pod and then taking both games versus Chadron State and Regis. Four of those wins came against teams ranked below them in the RMAC with the win versus Fort Lewis being only the Skyhawks fifth loss this year.
• The Grizzlies are ranked top four in the RMAC in seven stat categories. They are second in team assists (776), second in team attacks per set (38.27), second in team kills (837), third in assists per set (12.52), third in kills per set (13.50), third in team total attacks (2,373), and fourth in team digs (954).
• Adams State was picked to finish in a tie for ninth in the conference with Colorado School of Mines this year. They were awarded 95 points and currently sit in a tie for seventh with a 3-3 conference record.
• Senior right side Hadleigh Richardson has become a star for Adams State this year. Richardson is the top attacker in the RMAC ranking first in the conference and 11th in the country in kills with 271, she ranks first in the conference and tenth in the country in kills per set (4.37), she ranks first in the RMAC and 16th in the country in points per set (4.81) and ranks first in the RMAC and 27th in the country in total attacks with 674. Richardson has won RMAC Offensive Player of the Week three times this season in the opening week (9-8-25), and each of the last two weeks (10-6-25 and 10-13-25). She has ten plus kills in all but one matchup and has 15 or more in nine of the 17 matchups with 20 kills in five with a season high 28 versus Southwest Nazarene. She has had 80 kills in the past two weekends for ASU averaging five kills per set over the 16 sets. She also had ten or more digs in three of the last four games including 16 versus NMHU.
• Katie Bauer has been the middle for Adams this year with 48 total blocks, ten of which have been solo. She has had a block in all but three matches and has had three or more blocks in ten of the 17 games. She has had a season-high six blocks twice including this past weekend versus Chadron State. She also adds 112 kills.
• Logan Conlin has been the top Libero for the Grizzlies with 207 digs over the season so far. She has turned it on as of late with ten or more digs in nine of the last ten and 15 or more digs in five of those nine. She had 36 digs over the past weekend including 19 versus Chadron and 17 versus Regis.
• Head coach Garcia Ramser is in his second year with ASU and has a 19-25 record for the Grizzlies. He went 11-16 last year and is 8-9 this year looking to get his first winning season.

SERIES HISTORY

• The Yellow Jackets are 3-10 versus Adams State in the matchup history and are 2-4 versus the Grizzlies in their last six matchups. ASU has won the last three meetings.
• Last year, BHSU lost their match to Adams in a five-set thriller, where BHSU won the first and fourth sets before narrowly losing the fifth 15-11.

• New Mexico Highlands is sitting in a tie for tenth place in the RMAC with a 2-4 conference record and has a 7-10 overall record. The Cowgirls have won three of their last four matchups with their only loss coming in a non-conference matchup versus Eastern New Mexico.
• The Cowgirls have been exceptional at two categories this year, serves and digs. NMHU is ranked first in the RMAC in total service aces with 110 and third in aces per set with 1.75. They are ranked second in digs per set with 16.78 and third in total digs with 1,057. They are also ranked fourth in team total attacks with 2,310.
• New Mexico Highlands was picked to finish 14th in the RMAC preseason coaches’ poll with 37 points just ahead of BHSU. They now sit in a tie for tenth with a 2-4 conference record.
• Becca Wiersema has been one of the top liberos in the RMAC this year. She sits just behind Ellie Thomas in digs with 255 and third in the RMAC, while ranking seventh in digs per set (4.05). She has reached ten plus digs in all but three games this year and has reached 15 nine times this season so far. She is coming off her fourth 20 kill game of the year versus Eastern New Mexico where she had 21 digs and had 44 digs over the past week.
• Yuli Favela has been the top blocker for the Cowgirls this year. She sits at 42 total blocks and has had a block in each of the last 13 games. She is coming off a season high six blocks versus Eastern New Mexico and had 11 blocks total over the last two games.
• Senior setter Naya Dornic has been the top setter on the team this year with 259 assists this year and 4.18 assists per set. She has ten or more assists in all but three games this year and had 27 assists versus Westminster. She had 32 total assists the past two games including 17 versus Chadron State.
• The Cowgirls have a duo of top attackers in Arianna Jamerson and Aziza Morris. The two have combined for 332 kills this season with Jamerson holding the slight 170-162 lead on total kills. Jamerson has reached ten plus kills in eight games this year and each of the last five. She had 32 total kills over the past two games with 17 versus ENM and 15 versus Chadron State with a .542 hitting percentage in the latter matchup. With Jamerson catching fire, Morris has struggled as of late only reaching ten or more kills twice in the past eight games while doing it in six of the eight games before that. She had 15 total kills this past two games and did not reach ten in either of them.
• Meg Grose is in her second season at the helm of the Cowgirls after spending one season at D3 Lawrence. She has a career 17-53 record and a career 12-31 record for NMHU. She already has more wins this season than in any of the two years prior.

SERIES HISTORY

• New Mexico Highlands is the only team in the RMAC that the Yellow Jackets have a winning record against. The Green and Gold is 8-5 against Highlands in the matchup history but have lost three of the last four.
• NMHU is the only RMAC team BHSU has beaten in the last two years. They went 1-1 last season with BHSU winning the home matchup 3-1 before losing the road match in a five-set thriller.