WISE -- It's the final week of the regular season for the UVA Wise volleyball team, and they will hit the road for two important South Atlantic Conference matches as they travel to Lincoln Memorial Tuesday evening and Catawba on Friday.

Currently the Highland Cavaliers are tied with Limestone for eighth in the SAC standings. The top eight teams will play in the upcoming SAC Volleyball Tournament. LU and UVA Wise split in their head-to-head meetings this season, so if they both remain tied it will go to Limestone based on wins over other SAC teams going in ranking order. The Saints will play their regular-season finale at home against Carson-Newman Tuesday evening.

GETTING WISE
- UVA Wise is 11-14 overall and 5-11 in SAC play following their 3-1 win over Limestone last Friday. The eleven wins are the most since 2015 and the five conference wins are the most since 2016.
- Kaylee Scarce leads the team with 242 kills and is second on the team with 262 digs. Her 2.95 kills per set ranks her fifth in the SAC. She also currently has 962 digs for her career.
- Riley Brandon is second in kills with 217. Combined with her 128 assists and 125 digs, she is only the fourth player in UVA Wise history to pass the century mark in all those categories in a season and the first since the 2007 season.
- Abigail Curtis has 442 digs on the season for an average of 4.97 a set. That ranks her at third and fifth in the SAC, respectively. She also leads the team in aces with 23 and has 119 assists on the season.
- Piper Suddeth leads the team in assists with 412 and has 244 digs, while Lily Gutierrez has 261 assists.
- Cassidy Farley leads the team and the SAC in blocks per set with 1.33. She has 29 solo blocks and 88 block assists for a total of 117. All three are single season records in the program's NCAA Division II era.

ABOUT LMU
- The Railsplitters are 15-11 overall and 9-7 overall. They eked out a 3-2 win at UVA Wise in their earlier meeting this season.
- Kristen Moehring leads LMU and the SAC with 318 kills, followed by Abigail Kessler with 219.
- Braylynn Humphrey and Megan Meier are one and two in the SAC in aces per set.
- Lauren Jacob leads the team in digs with 340, while Moehring has 207 and Lauren Pickett has 201.
- Agata Bogdanska leads the team and is third in the SAC in blocks with 85 (1.04 bps).
- The last two matches between the two schools have gone to five sets.

ABOUT CATAWBA
- The teams meet for the only time this season, and Cat U enters the match with a 4-19 overall and 2-14 record. They are at Newberry on Tuesday before returning home for the Senior Night meeting with the Cavs.
- Catawba has won all five meetings to date since the series began in 2019.
- Kelcie Love leads Catawba with 170 kills, followed by Sofia Beard with 101.
- Haley Moffett (378 assists) and Sydney McCutcheon (267 assists) are the two main setters for the Catawba Indians.
- Riley Hill's 367 digs lead Catawba, with Kary Hales coming in second on the team with 225.
- Catawba has a 0.99 hitting percentage for the season, and are averaging 10.58 kills a set.