SAVANNAH STATE vs. BETHUNE-COOKMAN
GAME TIME: Friday, Sept. 25, 2015 – 6 p.m.
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GAME TIME: Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015 – 1 p.m.
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TIGERS ON FACEBOOK: facebook.com/SSUAthleticsSAVANNAH, Ga. – Savannah State University volleyball team begins MEAC play against Bethune-Cookman on Friday at 6 p.m. and Florida A&M on Sunday at 1 p.m. in Willcox-Wiley Gym to finish its four-match homestand.
Junior setter
Caitlynn Masoe leads the team with 68 kills, 1.39 kills per set, and with 160 assists, 3.27 assists per set and is tied in service aces with 10, 0.20 service ace per set, and added 76 digs, 1.55 digs per set, and nine total blocks.
Freshman outside hitter
Makayla Tam is second on the team with 62 kills, 1.38 kills per set, and is tied with a team-high 10 service aces, 0.22 service ace per set, and has added 49 digs and eight total blocks, while junior middle blocker
Gabrielle Nathaniel is third on the team with 61 kills, 1.24 kills per set, eight service aces, 0.16 service ace per set, 65 digs, 1.33 digs per set and is tied for the most total blocks with 15, 0.31 blocks per set.
Junior libero
Alexis Washington leads the team with 159 digs, 3.12 digs per set, while freshman setter
Briana Littlejohn has added 155 assists, 2.30 assist per set, 17 kills and 55 digs.
The last time out, the Lady Tigers (0-17), fell to The Citadel 3-0 (26-24, 25-16, 25-13) on Tuesday night at Willcox-Wiley Gym. Tam recorded her first double-double of her career with 10 kills and 11 digs and added a .308 hitting percentage, two block assists and two assists. Nathaniel and freshman outside hitter
Ayree Gallon each added five kills, while Washington led the team with 15 digs and Masoe led the team with 19 assists and added four kills and eight digs.
During the two matches this week against The Citadel and Charleston Southern, Nathaniel led the team with 14 kills, 2.33 kills per set, and added eight digs and four total blocks, 0.67 blocks per set, while Tam is second with 13 kills, 2.17 kills per set, 16 digs, 2.67 digs per set and two total blocks. Masoe led the team with 30 assists, 5.00 assists per set, and has added nine kills, 1.50 kills per set, 13 digs, 2.17 digs per set and three total blocks, 0.50 blocks per set. Washington has posted 25 digs, 4.17 digs per set.
Bethune-Cookman (3-11) defeated Stetson on Tuesday 3-0, but went 0-2 in the FIU Invitational last weekend with losses to FIU (3-1) and Seattle (3-0). The Wildcats are led by Delicia Pierre with 161 kills, 3.43 kills per set, Hazel Ortiz-Rosado with 414 assists, 8.81 assist per set, and Normarie Rolon with 162 digs, 3.45 digs per set.
Florida A&M (0-13) went 0-2 last weekend falling to Texas A&M (3-0) and South Florida (3-0). The Rattlers are led by Pamela Soriano with 102 kills, 3.09 kills per set, Ailin Donati with 162 assists, 4.76 assists per set, and Valentina Carrasco with 150 digs, 3.66 digs per set.
The Lady Tigers head to North Carolina next weekend with a trip to Greensboro to face North Carolina A&T State on Friday, Oct. 2 at 7 p.m. and to Durham to face North Carolina Central at 2 p.m. on Sunday at Oct. 4.
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