WISE – The UVA Wise volleyball team opens up a four match home stand with three matches this week as they host Emory & Henry and Newberry in South Atlantic Conference matches, and a non-conference meeting with local rival Concord.

The home stand also includes the Converse Valkyries, who come to Wise on October 8.

All matches will be streamed on FloVolleyball.tv. Links to those broadcasts and live streams can be found above.

GETTING WISE
- The Highland Cavaliers are currently 6-6 overall and 1-3 in the SAC after two SAC road matches with a home match sandwiched between them. 
- Kaylee Scarce (104 kills, 125 digs) and Riley Brandon (98 kills, 62 digs, 26 blocks) lead the team offensively. Brandon had her second triple-double of the season against Coker Friday evening.
- Piper Suddeth leads the team with 185 assists, followed by Lily Guiterrez with 103.
- Abigail Curtis (13) is one of four players with double digit aces. Suddeth and Kamryn Livingston have 12 apiece.
- Three Highland Cavaliers have over 100 digs, led by Abigail Curtis' 209.
- Cassidy Farley leads the team in blocks with 44, followed by Serina Petersen's 34. Farley became the leading blocker of UVA Wise's NCAA era as she passed Santana Bishop's career total of 281 with an authoritative block at Carson-Newman Saturday afternoon.
- As a team, UVA Wise is hitting .134, compared to their opponents' .150. They have more aces (1,63 aces per set) than the competition (1.51 aps) and slightly trail the opposition in digs by an 18.80-18.44 digs per set average. UVA Wise and their opponents are tied in blocks with 2.10 blocks per set apiece.

SCOUTING EMORY & HENRY
- Southwest Virginia's other team come into the first match against the Cavs this season with a 2-9 overall record and 0-4 SAC record. They have not played in a week because of the weather and travel conditions over the weekend forcing postponements and cancellations.
- Brianna Hogan (85 kills) is the top offensive threat, with Haley Harnicher (49 kills) and Grace Duey (48) also being key offensive players.
- Logan Newberry leads the team in assists with 157, while Zoie Pace has 58.
- Libby Bickelhaupt's 161 digs are more than double the next highest total on the team, Grace Nelson's 78.
- Six Wasps have double-digit blocks on the season, led by Harnicher's 28.
- This is one of the older series for the Cavs as the two first played on October 19, 1970 in Wise. Clinch Valley won that meeting 15-8, 15-12. The Wasps, however, lead the overall series 9-7.

SCOUTING NEWBERRY
- The Wolves are 4-5 overall and 1-3 in the SAC coming into the week. They play at Catawba Tuesday evening before coming to Wise on Friday.
- They defeated Catawba and have losses to Coker, Lenoir-Rhyne and Anderson. They have played LMU once this season in an early season tournament, but that did not count for conference purposes.
- Samantha Shaffer leads the team in kills with 56, followed by Kate Brown with 43.
- Annie Dill has 115 assists to lead the team, while Giovanna Ravanhani has 99.
- Katy Morrison leads the Wolves with 76 digs, followed by Brown's 71 and Dill's 65.

SCOUTING CONCORD
- The Mountain Lions are currently 6-8 overall and 1-0 in the Mountain East Conference. They have matches at West Virginia State and are home against Charleston Friday evening before making the trip to Wise.
- This rivalry has died down a bit from when the two schools were both in the MEC and were the closest conference school to each other.
- They have three common opponents – Lees-McRae, Bluefield State, and Lenoir-Rhyne. The Mountain Lions fell 3-0 to both LMC and LRU and defeated BSU 3-0 in the first meeting between the two Mercer County schools.
- Meg Williams (157 kills, 141 digs, 20.0 blocks) and Chloe Thompson (140 kills, 125 digs, 10.0 blocks) lead the team offensively.
- Paige Richmond has 281 assists, while Declyn Tooze has 176.
- Defensively, Allie Davis leads the team in digs with 245 and Kyndra Pilant leads in blocks with 49.0.

UP NEXT
The home stand concludes with Converse on Tuesday, October 8, followed by a weekend trip to South Carolina to face Anderson Friday evening and Erskine Saturday afternoon.

You can keep up to date with the Highland Cavs on www.UVAWiseCavs.com