PORTALES, N.M. - The ENMU Greyhounds volleyball team returns to the friendly confines of Greyhound Arena on Friday and Saturday for a pair of matches against Texas A&M-Commerce and Texas Woman's University. First serve in both matches is slated for 6 p.m.
 
Live stats and streaming video are available online at http://stats.statbroadcast.com/broadcast/?id=140116.
 
• ENMU Head Coach Sia Poyer (42-66), in his fourth-year at the helm of the volleyball program, needs eight victories to eclipse the 50-win plateau.
• The Greyhounds and Lions have met annually since 2008. Eastern is 0-10 against the Lions since that time, falling 3-0 and 3-1 last season.
• The Greyhounds and Pioneers have met annually since 2008. Eastern is 1-11 over that stretch against Texas Woman's, but claimed the most recent meeting, 3-2, in Portales on November 8, 2014.
• Eastern ranks in the top-100 in NCAA DII in a number of statistical categories:
               Category              #             Nat'l.     LSC
               Assists/Set          12.54     35           3
               Hitting Pct.          .204        86           6
               Kills/Set              13.37     34           3
               Assists                815       11           1
               Digs                     957         94           6
               Kills                        869         11           1
               Attacks                 2,310     40           2
 
• Lauren Frye enters the weekend with 1,423 career kills to rank No. 3 on the all-time list and needs 272 to break Christabell Mariner's program record of 1,695. The senior sits sixth-nationally in total kills this season with 274 and is three behind Tarleton's State's Hailey Roberts for the LSC lead. Frye is coming off a weekend in which she tallied 36 kills and hit .391.
 
The Amissville, Va., native was named the Lone Star Conference's Offensive Player of the Week after putting up 68 kills and a .315 attack percentage against NMHU, Cameron and WNMU. Frye was also named to the All-Tournament team at the Tarleton State Tournament earlier this season.
 
• Junior Brooklyn Biel ranks second on the team with 206 kills and leads the Greyhounds with a .318 attack percentage. The junior middle blocker from Laveen, Ariz. has 38 blocks on the year and picked up 34 kills last week.
 
• Senior Courtney Lawson was named one of three Academic Greyhounds of the year last year and has 32 double-doubles during her tenure at ENMU, including eight this season. The senior from Rio Rancho, N.M. has 157 kills, 199 digs and 18 aces to go along with 15 blocks.
 
• Junior Alexis Aguirre and sophomore Kaitlyn Kluna have set the table for the offense this season, dishing out a combined 742 dimes. Aguirre has 435 on the year, with Kluna not far behind at 307.
• Junior libero Andrea Aguilar has 247 digs this season after setting the ninth-highest mark in school history last year with 522. The Clovis, N.M. native climbed into 10th-place on the all-time list for the Greyhounds and eclipsed 1,000 in her career earlier this season against Cameron.
 
 
• The Greyhounds were picked to finish ninth in the Lone Star Conference, despite returning 13 letterwinners
• Tarleton State's Hailey Roberts was named Offensive Player of the Year, Texas Woman's Sara Oxford earned Defensive Player of the Year acclaim, and Texas A&M-Kingsville's Casey Klobedans was tabbed Setter of the Year.
• Angelo State was the narrow favorite to capture the Lone Star Conference title, according to the 2016 LSC volleyball preseason poll. The league's preseason polls reflect the opinions of LSC head coaches and sports information directors, plus various media representatives from throughout the region.
 
LSC Preseason Poll
               Place     Team                                     Points  
               1.            Angelo State (13)                             301
               2.            Tarleton State (12)          291
               3.            Texas Woman's                                239
               4.            West Texas A&M (4)      206
               5.            Texas A&M - Kingsville  184
               6.            Western New Mexico    176
               7.            Cameron                             158
               8.            Texas A&M - Commerce               154
               9.            Eastern New Mexico      99
               10.          Midwestern State           61
               11.          UT Permian Basin             45
 
 
• WTAMU Lady Buff Classic - Eastern finished 3-1 at the West Texas A&M Lady Buff Classic. Senior Lauren Frye led the tournament with 73 kills while Brooklyn Biel and Andrea Aguilar were named to the All-Tournament team.
• Tarleton State Tournament - Eastern went 1-3 at the Tarleton State Tournament in Stephenville. Lauren Frye and Kaitlyn Kluna were named to the All-Tournament team.