GAME DAY INFORMATION
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DATE: November 12, 2019
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LOCATION: Charger Gymnasium | West Haven, Conn.
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THE LEAD
The women's volleyball team will play its final regular season home match on Tuesday night, welcoming the Assumption Greyhounds to Charger Gymnasium. Overall, the Chargers have just two games remaining in the regular season with a date at NE10 leading Bentley next on the docket on Thursday.
SERIES HISTORY VS ASSUMPTION
In a relatively young all-time series, the Chargers hold a perfect 12-0 record against the Greyhounds with the initial meeting between the two programs coming in 1977. That early match up was the only until the new century when they renewed the series in 2004 and then again when the Charges joined the Northeast-10 in 2008. The last three meetings have all come by way of a three-set sweep, while extended through the entire series, the Greyhounds have won just two sets total in the 12 meetings.
SCOUTING THE CHARGERS
New Haven is coming off of a three-set sweep of Stonehill this past weekend as they honored their lone senior
Mallory Nowicki (Grand Rapids, Mich./Northview) prior to the match. Nowicki enters tonight's final regular season home contest just 15 kills shy of joining the 1,000 kill club at New Haven. Overall for the season, she is one of five leading hitters across a balanced attack for the Chargers. She enters Wednesday night's match with a team-best 228 kills and a .242 attack percentage. Just behind her in leading the offense is junior
Kali Greathead (Temecula, Calif./Temecula Valley) (221 kills) and sophomore
Ruby Fera (Seattle, Wash./Ballard) (219 kills). A pair of middle blockers round out the leading hitters with junior
Camille Garden (Atlanta, Ga./Landmark Christian) and freshman
Emily Barry (Freeport, N.Y./Sacred Heart Academy) adding 169 and 123 kills, respectively. Garden also leads New Haven with 61 total blocks. The Chargers utilize a 6-2 rotation at the setter position with junior
Angela Chan (Jacksonville, Fla./Bishop Kenny) (507 assists) and freshman
Sammie Paguia (Ashburn, Va./Stone Bridge) (344 assists) splitting the workload. Defensively, New Haven has relied on rookie libero
Julia Guarniere (Milford, N.H./Milford) to do the majority of the work, racking up 425 digs, while sophomore
Jalynn Finnie (Pearland, Texas/Dawson) and Nowicki follow Garden in the blocking efforts with 46 and 40 total returns, respectively.
SCOUTING THE GREYHOUNDS
Assumption enters Charger Gymnasium looking for their second NE10 victory of the season, having lost its last 10 straight matches. For the year, the Greyhounds are led by sophomore middle blocker Alana Hruska who is one of three players to register triple digit kills with 156 to her credit. Following her is junior outside hitter Ariana Orcera and senior middle blocker Tess Haller who add 142 and 105 kills, respectively. The Greyhounds also rely on a 6-2 rotation at the setter position with a pair of freshman splitting the duties, Kyra Belden (253 assists) and Danielle Zarcone (294 assists) splitting the work. Defensively, sophomore libero Alexandra Krawczyk leads the team with 314 digs while Hruska also leads the blocking efforts with 72 stuffs.
UP NEXT
New Haven will close out the regular season on Thursday night when they travel to Waltham, Mass. to face off against the number one team in the Northeast-10 Bentley. The Falcons had a perfect 10-0 record in conference play broke up just last week with a loss to Southern Connecticut. Following Thursday match, the top-eight teams in the NE10 standings will advance to the conference championship with the top four seeds hosting first round action on Tuesday, November 19.
