WISE – The Highland Cavalier volleyball team will face a pair of local rivals for some South Atlantic Conference rematches this week as they host Carson-Newman on Tuesday and travel to Tusculum Friday evening.

Tuesday's match sees the team seeking to return the favor to the Eagles, who handed them a 3-0 loss in Jefferson City on September 28. The reverse will apply on Friday as the Pioneers will be wanting some payback for their 3-2 loss in Wise last week.

GETTING WISE
- The team is 10-11 overall and 4-8 in the SAC. They are currently ranked eighth and are tied with Limestone.
- Piper Suddeth became only the ninth player in UVA Wise history (and fifth in the NCAA Era) to pass the 1,000 assists mark. She enters the week with 1,008 assists and trails eighth-place Chandler Rouse (2015) by 171 assists.
- Five players have 100 or more kills for the season, led by Kaylee Scarce's 194. Riley Brandon has 187, Serina Petersen 128, Cassidy Farley 109, and Morgan Blevins has 104.
- Suddeth has 340 assists to lead the team, followed by Lily Gutierrez (202) and Brandon (120).
- Abigail Curtis and Suddeth lead the team with 19 service aces apiece.
- Curtis leads the team and is second in the SAC in digs with 373, and Scarce is second with 226.
- Farley has 98 blocks to lead UVA Wise. Her 1.33 blocks per set average leads the SAC. She needs two blocks to tie Kim Mathes' mark of 100 in a season, set in 2001, which is 11^th most all-time. Mikaela Anders is tenth with 105 blocks set in the 2009 season. Farley's 26 solo blocks tie her for 14^th in a season with Stacey Ringhoffer (2003) and Lindsay Rutherford (2001). Petersen is second on the team currently with 52 blocks.
- As a team the Cavs are hitting .135 overall and .129 in SAC matches this season.

ABOUT CARSON-NEWMAN
- The Eagles are currently 14-6 overall and are tied for second in the SAC with Lenoir-Rhyne with an identical 10-2 conference record, though C-N defeated the Bears earlier this season and will hold the advantage in any tie-breaker situation.
- Emerson Ahsmus leads the Eagles in kills with 222, followed closely by Maddie Hurst. Taylor Keeran (139) and Blake Cherry (115) also have more than 100 kills. Hurst (62) and Keeran (56) also lead the team in blocks.
- Blair Cherry leads the team in aces (34), followed by her sister Blake (23) and Bennett McCombs (24).
- McCombs has 296 digs this the season, while Blake Cherry has 216.
- In their last meeting on Sept. 28, the game was closer than the 3-0 score indicates as the Cavs only lost the match by 15 points, with ten of those occurring in the final set. Scarce led the Cavs with nine kills and 19 digs.
- C-N leads the overall series 16-0.

ABOUT TUSCULUM
- Following last week's dramatic win by the Cavs, the Pioneers currently stand at 8-12 overall and 6-6 in the SAC. They are at Catawba Tuesday evening before returning to host UVA Wise on Friday.
- Last week's match was historic for Tusculum as well, as they had the fifth-most attempts (237) and seventh-most digs (128) in their program history. Five players had new career highs in the contest.
- The Pioneers are literally the oldest opponent on UVA Wise's schedule as they were the first team the Highland Cavaliers played. UVA Wise opened the program with the 2-0 sweep in Greear Gym in a one-day tournament in Wise on Nov. 8, 1969. They also played Milligan and Virginia Intermont that day. Also competing in the tournament were Sullins and Emory & Henry (who won it). Tusculum leads 30-4 in the overall series.
- Addison McLarty (183), Martina Foster (176), McKayla Willey (138), and Whitney Thompson (115) lead the team in kills. Foster leads the team in blocks with 57.
- Madison Adkins leads the Pioneers in assists with 664 and has 208 digs and 39 blocks.
- Amiranee Au has 316 digs and Taylor Sanders has 200.