PHOTO | ALLIE RENYA - SERVICE ACE: (Right) Outside hitter Lauren Thedford gears up to serve a floater deep into the opponent’s terrritory.
The West Texas A&M Volleyball program earned two more wins to remain unbeaten in the Lone Star conference, 4-0. The Lady Buffs swept Texas A&M-Commerce and Texas Woman’s University to post a 15-2 overall record.
“The girls are working harder,” Jason Skoch, head coach, said. “Last week was our best stretch of practices and it shows.”
The final scores of the TAMU-Commerce game were 25-19, 25-17 and 25-19. The Texas Women’s game was a similar situation with the Lady Buffs sweeping the Lady Pioneers with final scores of 25-20, 25-17 and 25-17.
Senior right side hitter Laura Prinsen led the way for WT in both contests. She finished the weekend with 23 kills. Senior middle blocker Melissa Harper followed with 20 kills.
“Both of our middles over the last three weekends have been averaging over .300,” Skoch said.
“The difference is last year we only had one middle. This year we have two strong middles, which is an advantage for us.”
On the defensive side, junior outside hitter Lauren Thedford was dominate with 27 digs for the weekend.
Thedford recorded 17 of those digs in the match against TWU. Another important statistic came from senior setter Katie Rickwartz. Rickwartz recorded 79 assists to lead WT to victory in the two games.
The Lady Buffs will head to Topeka, Kan., Oct 2-3 to begin the South Central region crossover tournament. WT will face Emporia State in the first round.