Date/Time/Location:  Colorado Mesa: Friday, November 13 at 6 PM in A2 Arena

Westminster: Saturday, November 15 at 5:30 PM in A2 Arena

Tickets:

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RMAC Network: 

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• Black Hills State is entering the final road stretch of their season sitting at 6-18 overall and 2-10 in conference play. They are coming off a one-game week this past week where they fell to Colorado School of Mines in three sets and a Tuesday night loss to South Dakota Mines in three sets. The Jackets have fallen in all but one of their games dating back to October 4th and will be looking to get back in the win column here and end their five-game losing streak.
• The Yellow Jackets top stat categories this year have been team attacks per set (34.75), blocks per set (1.64), team total attacks (2,884), digs per set (14.82), and team total blocks (136.0).
• 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 12th with after a 2-10 start in conference play.
• Libero Ellie Thomas has been one of the top Libero in the RMAC this year. She is second in the RMAC in total digs with 405 and is third in digs per set with 4.76 ranking 56th in the country as well. She also has 14 aces including a career high five in the matchup versus Augustana. Thomas has had 15 or more digs in 14 of the 24 games and has reached ten in all of them. She earned a RMAC Defensive Player of the Week (10-20-25) after putting up four 20 dig games in a row before that streak ended this past weekend. This past week she had 11 digs in the match versus CSM and 10 versus SDM.  
• 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 236 kills. She also leads in kills per set with 2.75. Freeland has had ten or more kills in eight of the 23 matches this season. She also is second on the team in digs with 176 and is leading the team in receptions with 508 and 268.0. She had her first double-digit kill game since October 4 with 14 kills in the game versus the Cowgirls and then had six kills with a .313 hitting percentage against the Orediggers. She also had eight kills versus the Hardrockers
• 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 373 to Tuioti-Mariner’s 308 combining 681 assists between the two of them. They have also combined 267 digs. They combined for only 16 assists in the matchup versus Colorado Mines with Atkinson having nine and Tuioti-Mariner having seven and 24 in the matchup versus South Dakota Mines with Tuioti-Mariner having 13 to Atkinson’s 9. They also had 13 digs combined.
• Peyton McLeod and Jaeda Davis-Golliher have been a top middle duo for BHSU. Davis-Golliher leads the team with 55 total blocks and has a block in all but four games this year. She has had three or more in four of the last six games and also has 129 kills with at least three kills in all but four games this season. McLeod has 52 total blocks and also has 53 kills. She has had a block in 17 of her last 19 games and has had multiple in ten of the last 12 games including a career high seven versus Regis. They combined for three blocks versus CSM with McLeod having two. Davis-Golliher had one block versus SDM.
• 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 195-247 career record with two WAC Coach of the Year awards and one NCAA Division 1 Tournament appearance.

• Colorado Mesa is heading into the final weekend 14-9 overall and 8-4 in RMAC Play. They started their season with six ranked teams in September going 2-4 in those matchup and has now lost three of their last five matches each to top teams in the RMAC. They did win their last two games versus bottom of the conference teams in Chadron and Regis.
• The Mavericks rank in the top 100 in the country in four categories and top five in the RMAC in five. They rank second in the RMAC and 32nd in the country in hitting percentage (.244). They rank third in the RMAC and 47th in the country in assists per set (12.36). They rank third in the RMAC and 57th in the country in kills per set (13.28). They rank fifth in the RMAC and 74th in the country in blocks per set (2.08). They also rank fifth in the RMAC in opponent hitting percentage (.170).
• Colorado Mesa was picked to finish second in the RMAC with 183 points, two first place votes, 11 second place votes, and one third place votes. They currently sit in a tie for fourth with an 8-4 record along with three other teams.
• Senior Outside Hitter, Sadie Scoville, a CSU Pueblo transfer has been one of the top all-around players in the RMAC this year and the top attacker for Colorado Mesa. She was chosen to be on the All-RMAC Preseason Team and has now put up 274 kills, 243 digs, and 43 blocks. Scoville currently ranks fifth in the RMAC in total kills, eighth in kills per set (3.19), and eighth in total attacks (752). She has reached ten or more kills in 14 of the 23 games and 12 of the last 16. She earned RMAC Offensive Player of the Week one time this season (9-22-25) She is coming off her best game as a Maverick with 29 kills and eight digs in the four-set match versus Regis. She also put up 12 in the Chadron State matchup.
• Ashlyn Tafoya has turned into one of the top setters in the RMAC with 599 assists, one away from 600. She just earned her first RMAC Setter of the Week honor two weeks ago (10-20-25) with 83 assists in one weekend. Tafoya has 20 assists or more in 16 of the last 19 games including 49 in the five set win loss to CSM. She also has 207 digs and has reached double-digits in ten games this season. Over the past weekend, Tafoya had 50 assists and 22 digs with four aces.
• Aesha Alrashed has been one of the top blockers in the RMAC and country with 92 total blocks this season. She ranks third in the RMAC in total blocks and blocks per set (1.07). She also has 126 kills. She has had at least three blocks in all but five games this season and has reached a season-high seven twice including against Westminster in late October. She had eight blocks and six kills this past weekend with five against Chadron.
• This is head coach Austin Albers seventh season as a head coach and first with Colorado Mesa. He was at CSU Pueblo for six years before making the jump to the RMAC rival. He has a 107-70 record overall and a 14-9 record in his first season at Mesa. He only has one losing season in his career and has only reached more than nine kills three times.

 
Series History

• BHSU is down 2-12 all-time versus the Mavericks and has lost eight in a row dating back to 2016. They have only won a set versus CMU in two of those eight losses.
• Their previous matchup was a 3-0 loss for BHSU in mid-November last year. They were held to six points in the first set and never had more 16 points in either set. They were out killed 46-16 and were out dug 56-29. 

• Westminster is on a roll as they have won six of their last eight including a win over Colorado Mesa, Colorado Christian and some wins against lower tier RMAC opponents. They are currently sitting at 15-9 and 7-5 in the RMAC right on the RMAC Tournament bubble. They just won their last two matchups versus Chadron and Regis in straight sets.
• The Griffins are top five in the RMAC in six categories. They are third in total digs (1,587), third in total attacks (3,635), fourth in digs per set (16.53), fourth in attacks per set (37.86), fourth in total blocks (194.0), fifth in W/L percentage (.625), and fifth in total kills (1,184).
• Westminster was picked to finish seventh in the RMAC with 105 points and are now sitting in a tie for seventh with South Dakota Mines and Adams State. Only eight teams make the RMAC tournament, so they are right on the bubble of the postseason needing two wins this weekend to secure it.
• Sadie Parish is the kill leader for WC with 231 kills. She had 10 kills in ten of the 24 games this year but has not had 10 kills in a match since October 18. She has six straight games with less than ten kills. Parish is coming off a 16-kill week where she had nine versus Regis.
• Leila Cornejo is the set leader for Westminster and has just under 500 assists. She has 469 total assists and has 20 or more is seven of the last 12. She even had 25 versus Western Colorado. Cornejo is coming off a 40-assist week, where she had 21 versus Chadron State. 
• Ava Livolsi is one of the top liberos in the RMAC. She is fifth in the RMAC in total digs with 370 and fifth in digs per set with 4.07. She has had ten plus digs in all but four matches this year including 30 digs versus Seattle Pacific earlier in the year. She had 28 digs over the past weekend with 15 digs versus Chadron. 
• Mailei Myers has been the star for the Griffins this year. After being named to the preseason All-RMAC team, she currently leads the RMAC in total blocks with 93. She also has 202 kills and 104 digs. She’s had a block in all but two games this year including eight against Adams State. She had her first 20-kill game of the season this past week versus Regis and also had four blocks with a .692 hitting percentage.
• Sue Dulaney is in her fourth season at Westminster. She is in the midst of her first winning season of her career and is sitting at 44-59 overall in her career at Westminster. 

 
SERIES HISTORY

• Westminster and BHSU are tied in the series history with a 6-6 record in the matchup. Westminster has won each of the last three matches versus Yellow Jackets and BHSU’s last win came in was 3-1 victory in 2022.
• BHSU has lost the last six sets to Westminster and lost their last matchup 3-0 in late November last year.