Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, October 21, 2025, at 6 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 their second matchup versus Chadron State this year and will be looking to get back on the winning train with losses in every game since the previous matchup versus the Eagles. The Yellow Jackets went 0-2 this weekend versus Adams State and New Mexico Highlands and went 1-6 in sets over the weekend. They now sit at 5-13 (1-7 RMAC) after this past duo of games.
• The Yellow Jackets top stat categories this year have been team attacks per set (34.80), blocks per set (1.60), team total attacks (2,262), digs per set (14.43), and team total blocks (104.0).
• 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 12th after a 1-7 start in conference play.
• Libero Ellie Thomas has been the top Libero in the RMAC this year. She ranks leads the RMAC in total digs with 307 and also leads in digs per set with 4.72. She also has 12 aces including a career high five in the matchup versus Augustana. Thomas has had 15 or more digs in ten of the 17 games and has reached ten in all of them. She is coming off one of the best weekends of her career where she had 6.29 digs per set and 44 total digs in only seven sets versus Adams and Highlands. She had 20 in the first matchup and 24 in three sets versus Highlands. The performance earned her a RMAC Defensive Player of the Week award and it was the first RMAC weekly award since week four of the 2020-21 season.
• Emily Freeland is leading BHSU in kills this 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 185 kills which is 13th in the RMAC. She’s tenth in kills per set with 2.85. Freeland has had ten or more kills in seven of the 18 matches this season. She also is second on the team in digs with 133 and is leading the team in receptions with 413 and 209.5. She is coming off weekend where she only had 14 kills with eight in the game versus Adams and also had a rough .080 hitting percentage.
• 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 275 to Tuioti-Mariner’s 230 combining 505 assists between the two of them. They have also combined 180 digs. Elena Atkinson had her weekend this past two games leading the team in assists with 28 to Tuioti-Mariner’s 19 and had 17 assists in the game versus ASU.
• Jaeda Davis-Golliher has been the top middle for BHSU, she leads the team with 42 total blocks while also having 98 kills and 12 aces. She has had a block in all but three games and has had three in each of the last three games. She has had three or more kills in all but three matches including a season high of ten in the game versus WCU. She had eight kills this past weekend and six total blocks. She had three blocks in each game this doubleheader and had six kills in the game versus the Grizzlies.
• 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 194-242 career record with two WAC Coach of the Year awards and one NCAA Division 1 Tournament appearance.

• Chadron State sits at 4-14 and 1-7 in conference and have not been able to get a win since beating Western in late September and have now lost six straight games and four in a row since their last meeting with BHSU. Chadron has only won one set in those four matchups.
• The Eagles are ranked top 10 in the RMAC in three categories. They are ranked third and 51st in the country in team attacks per set (37.54), sixth in digs per set (15.70), and tenth in team total attackds (2,290).
• CSC was picked to finish 13th in the RMAC in the Preseason Coaches’ Poll with 55 points, they currently sit in a tie for 12th with a 1-7 record.
• Mataya Ward in the kill leader for CSC. The Belle Fourche product currently sits at 163 kills with a .241 attack percentage. She ranks seventh in the RMAC in kills per set (3.26), eighth in points per set (3.57), and ninth in attacks per set (8.80). Ward has only played 16 of the 18 matches and has ten or more kills in nine of them with 18 in their previous match versus the Yellow Jackets. This past weekend she had 17 total kills with nine kills versus MSU Denver and a .300 attack percentage. She has not reached ten kills in three games.
• Jillian Donovan has been one of the best setters in the RMAC this season with 540 assists, which ranks fourth in the conference. As a freshman, she ranks fourth in assists per set with 9.00. She has had 20 or more assists in all but three games this year with a 56-assist game versus the Green and Gold. The past two games she’s combine for 47 assists with 26 versus UCCS and a double-double versus MSUD with 21 assists and 10 digs.
• Avery Lacy has been the top half of a solid digging duo. She leads the team with 207 digs and has ten or more digs in all but five matches this year with 20 coming in the win over Upper Iowa. However, she has fallen off a cliff recently with only seven total digs in the past four games having lost the starting Libero job to a duo of Gibson Beckler and Josie Loosvelt, who have combined for 317 digs and 70 digs in the last four games.
• This is head coach Jennifer Stadler’s seventh year coaching the Eagles. She has a career 55-108 record in her career. She had a losing season last year after snapping a three-year winning season drought the previous year

• The Yellow Jackets are currently losing the series 27-15 to the Eagles. Chadron has won four of the last five dating back to 2022. This will be the 43rd meeting between the two.
• BHSU finally snapped a four-game losing streak versus Chadron last time these two met earlier this year in A2 Arena. BHSU was down 2-0 and came back to win 3-2 in the reverse sweep.
• In that matchup, Randi Wellhoefer, Emily Freeland, and Carsyn Mettler each made it to ten kills, Tuioti-Mariner made it to 26 assists, and Freeland and Thomas each made it to 20 digs. Beckler had 23 kills, Lacy had 32 digs, and Donovan had 56 assists.