PORTLAND | With Senior Day festivities to start off the night, the Warner Pacific University Women's Volleyball team (2-21, 2-18) were unable to pick up a win in their final home game of the season, dropping the match to the Lewis-Clark State College Warriors (16-12, 11-9) in straight sets, 16-25, 19-25, 16-25.
Before the start of tonight's match, four senior student-athletes on the Warner Pacific Women's Volleyball team were celebrated for their final home game at C.C. Perry Gym, which included setters
Shania Rose &
Matalasi Laban, and outside hitters
Savannah Proske and
Grace Buchanan. The four seniors were recognized for their on-court and off-court accomplishments, which included many Academic All-Conference, Dean's List, and both conference and all-time school statistic leaderboard honors and awards.
Unfortunate for the Knights, the Warriors came ready to play and spoiled their final home game upset alert mindset, hitting at a .347 kill% for the match, whilst piling up 10 blocks at the net.
Knights' Buchanan continues to rack up the kills for her conference lead in the category, adding 16 more tonight to go along with a team-high 6 digs. Sophomore outside hitter
Tevlin Britten and setter
Jaliza Lazaro also had 6 digs apiece in the backcourt for Warner Pacific.
Lewis-Clark State outside hitter Grecia Ung Enriquez dropeed a team-high 15 kills, while adding 11 digs to have her third double-double of the season. Libero Kenzie Dean hauled in a game-high 15 digs for the Warriors to notch their 16
th win of the season.
With one final weekend of regular season play for the Cascade Collegiate Conference, the Knights hit the road next Friday and Saturday to close out the season against the Oregon Tech Owls and Southern Oregon Raiders at 7pm PST and 5pm PST, respectively.