SPEARFISH, S.D.- The Black Hills State Yellow Jackets (6-13 (2-7 RMAC)) head on the road to face Regis (1-17 (1-7 RMAC)) on Saturday afternoon in the Regis Field House. The Yellow Jackets will have a chance at their first back-to-back conference wins since 2022 when they beat Westminster and Western Colorado in back-to-back games but separate weekends. The Green and Gold will also be looking for their second RMAC road win this year after taking out Western in Gunnison earlier this season.
 
Know Before You Go:
Date/Time/Location: Saturday, October 25, 2025, at 3 PM at the Regis Field House in Denver, Colorado.
Tickets: Tickets for the match can be found at the link above.
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BLACK HILLS STATE STORYLINES

• Black Hills State is entering their matchup vs Regis 6-13 and 2-7 in conference after their best performance of the year against Chadron on Tuesday. The Yellow Jackets beat the Eagles 3-0 for their first conference sweep since 2022. The 11 blocks was the most in a game so far this year as well as the 25.3 digs per set. They held CSC to a .133 hitting percentage which was the lowest of any RMAC opponent this year so far. It was a truly dominant effort on the defensive side of the ball.
• The Yellow Jackets top stat categories this year have been team attacks per set (35.29), blocks per set (1.69), team total attacks (2,400), digs per set (14.91), and team total blocks (115.0).
• Black Hills State was predicted to finish 15^th in the conference in the preseason RMAC Coaches' Poll after finishing 15^th in the conference last season. They are currently sitting in solo 12th after a 2-7 start in conference play.
• Libero Ellie Thomas has been the top Libero in the RMAC this year. She leads the RMAC in total digs with 333 and also leads in digs per set with 4.90 ranking 47^th and 45^th in the country in each respective stat. She also has 12 aces including a career high five in the matchup versus Augustana. Thomas has had 15 or more digs in 11 of the 18 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. She followed that performance up with 26 digs in the three-set win over Chadron which meant she had 8.6 digs per set.
• 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 194 kills which is ninth in the RMAC. She's tenth in kills per set with 2.85. Freeland has had ten or more kills in seven of the 19 matches this season. She also is second on the team in digs with 145 and is leading the team in receptions with 429 and 220.5. She had nine kills in the win versus Chadron with a .219 hitting percentage and 12 digs. She was huge in clutch moments for the Jackets in that game.
• 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 298 to Tuioti-Mariner's 243 combining 541 assists between the two of them. They have also combined 196 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. Atkinson followed it up with 23 assists in the matchup versus the Eagles, while Tuioti-Mariner had 13.
• Jaeda Davis-Golliher has been the top middle for BHSU, she leads the team with 47 total blocks while also having 105 kills and 12 aces. She has had a block in all but three games and has had three or more in each of the last four 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. Against Chadron, Davis-Golliher had five total blocks, seven kills, and a .333 hitting percentage.
• 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 195-242 career record with two WAC Coach of the Year awards and one NCAA Division 1 Tournament appearance.

 
REGIS STORYLINES

• Regis sits at 1-17 and 1-7 in RMAC play with their only win this season coming against Western Colorado, who has yet to win a game in the RMAC. It has been a disappointing year for the Rangers, who are two years removed from a RMAC Championship and an NCAA Tournament birth, they also made it to the second round of the RMAC tournament last season. They have now lost seven straight games since beating WCU in a five-set match. They have only won two sets since that match as well.
• The Rangers are ranked bottom two in the RMAC in every single stat category, except for service aces (78), which are ranked 13^th. Their best stat nationally is team attacks per set (31.97), which are ranked 243^rd out of 277 teams.
• Regis was picked to finish sixth in the RMAC Preseason Coaches' Poll with 117 points, they now sit in 14^th with a 1-7 conference record.
• Bailey Nichols has been one of the better setters in the RMAC this year ranking sixth in assists per set (7.11), and seventh in total assists (448). She also has 53 kills, 130 digs, and a team-high 19 aces this season. She has reached 15 assists in every game and has had 20 or more in 12 of the 18 games this season. She had a season-high 50 in the five-set loss to Colorado Christian. This past weekend, she had 53 total assists with 37 in the game versus UCCS. She also had seven kills, seven digs, two total blocks, and an ace in that game as well.
• Isabella Smith has been the top attacker for the Rangers as she currently sits with 151 kills but is seventh in the conference in attacks per set with 8.98. She has a .161 hitting percentage and is averaging 2.70 kills per set. She's had three games with 18 or more kills this year but has only reached ten five times this season. She also has five or more digs in nine of the last ten games. Over the past weekend, she had 18 total kills and 11 total digs with ten kills versus UCCS.
• Braizah Dixon has been the top defender for Regis with 48 total blocks. She leads the next blocker on her team by 28 total blocks and is 16^th in the RMAC in total blocks and blocks per set (.76). She has a block in each of the last 17 games and has reached her season-high five blocks three times this season including most recently versus CSU Pueblo. She had six total blocks this past weekend including four versus UCCS, but also had a season-high 11 kills in that game as well.
• This is head coach Joel List's ninth season with Regis. He has been a dominant coach for them with a career 169-78 record. Before last season he didn't have a year below a .650 winning percentage and had reached 20 wins four times. He went 14-14 last year, and this is his first time below .500 as a head coach.

 
SERIES HISTORY

• The Yellow Jackets are losing the series versus Regis 1-22 all-time. BHSU's only win came in a five-set thriller back in 2013 and BHSU has only taken seven sets versus them since. They are currently on a 17-game losing streak.
• The Green and Gold lost their matchup last year 3-1, which was their first set win versus the Rangers since 2021. BHSU took the first set 25-23, before losing the next three.