SHREVEPORT, La. – The Louisiana Christian University volleyball program had their backs against the wall, facing match point three consecutive times in the deciding set before rallying all the way back to take the final five points of the ballgame to claim record-breaking win number 12, 3-2 on the road at Centenary (Louisiana).
 

• Score
  • Louisiana Christian – 3
  • Centenary (Louisiana) – 2
    • 19-25, 25-23, 25-16, 18-25, 16-14

 

• Records
  • Louisiana Christian (12-6, 7-5 Red River)
  • Centenary-Louisiana (7-14, 0-8 SCAC)

 

• Location
  • Shreveport, Louisiana – Gold Dome

 

• Series History
  • Centenary (Louisiana) Leads 6-3 (33.3%)

 

• Winning Streak
  • Louisiana Christian (W2) | Centenary (Louisiana)'s Last Win: October 25, 2022 (3-0)

 
Wildcats Top Performers:
 

• Aniah Adams went for a double-double of a Wildcats-best 16 kills (3.20 p/s) plus a season-high 16 digs (3.20 p/s), her second of the season with the other also coming against the Ladies. The double-double was the eighth of her five-year tenure at LCU.

 

• Megan O'Neal had a career night in Shreveport with her first ever double-double, clubbing a campaign-most dozen kills (2.40 p/s) and a personal-record 11 digs (2.20 p/s) in addition to hitting .303.

 

• Emma Cother was the third and final student-athlete to have "double-double vision", nabbing her eighth of the season and 14th in 38 matches (36.8%) as a Cat by setting a match-most 41 assists (8.20 p/s) on top of 17 digs (3.40 p/s).

 

• Kierra Jones was a beast, putting together a career-high 20 points (4.00 p/s) courtesy of a season-best 14 kills (2.80 p/s), a match-most five blocks (1.00 p/s), and a tied for team-high .303 hitting percentage.

 

• Leah Stamps was the top defender on the court, going for a game-high 28 digs (5.60 p/s) along with eight assists (1.60 p/s) as she has now topped double-figures on defense in four of the last six (66.7%).

 

• Freshman Nija Polk had her best evening of her debut campaign, going for yearly bests regarding points (7, 1.40 p/s), kills (6, 1.20 p/s), digs (2), and blocks (first solo).

 

• Madison Danley was yet another Wildcat to set a new career benchmark, doing so with 19 digs (3.80 p/s) while being the lone player on the visiting side to record multiple service aces (2).

 

• Finally, Morgan Mills raised her career-best number for digs as well, moving it up to an even dozen after the five-set thriller.

 
Notes:
 

• The Cats have come a long way in the short time as Coach Salloum's teams had won a combined 16 games between their debut season in 2017 through 2021 but have now notched double-digit wins in each of the past two years and clinched its first winning regular season.

 

• In quite possibly the longest match of the campaign time-wise, the Orange and Blue set season-highs for both attack attempts (217) as well as digs (112) by a wide margin.

 

• The Wildcats improved to 9-13 (40.9%) all-time and 2-1 (66.7%) in five-set matches this season, taking down Jarvis Christian on September 9 while falling to Dillard on October 10.

 
Next:
 

• Red River Athletic Conference opponents are all that remains for the Wildcats with their final four matches being played in the friendly confines of H.O. West Fieldhouse. The season-ending four-game home stand starts on Friday against the second place OLLU Saints at 6 p.m. on-campus.

 
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