The ENMU Greyhounds volleyball team wraps up the historic 2016 regular season on Friday and Saturday at the friendly confines of Greyhound Arena. Eastern welcomes 10th-ranked Angelo State on Friday and Tarleton State for Senior Day on Saturday. First serve in both matches is slated for 6 p.m.
 
Live stats and streaming video are available online at GoEasternAthletics.com.
 
• ENMU Head Coach Sia Poyer (51-69), in his fourth-year at the helm of the volleyball program, eclipsed the 50-win plateau on Nov. 4 in the team's 3-1 win over Texas Woman's.
 
• The 'Hounds are honoring five seniors prior to Saturday's contest with Tarleton State. Lauren Frye, Courtney Lawson, Talaitupu Faumui, Stevi-Rae Baca and Tiana Roebuck have strung together prestigious careers in the Green and Silver.
 
• Eastern is riding an impressive hot streak, going 7-1 in the last eight matches. Over that stretch, the Greyhounds have dropped just five sets. ENMU rode a six-match winning streak from Oct. 18 to Nov. 4 and swept five-straight matches for the first time since 2001.
 
• Eastern ranks in the top-100 in NCAA DII in a number of statistical categories:
               Category              #             Nat'l.     LSC
               Assists/Set          13.17       14           3
               Hitting Pct.           .207         77           5
               Kills/Set               13.97       16           3
               Assists                1,330       17           3
               Kills                     1,411       22           3
               Attacks                3,720       75           7
 
• Several ENMU players rank in the top-100 in NCAA DII in a number of statistical categories:
               Category                              Player                   #             Nat'l.     LSC
               Digs/Set                              Andrea Aguilar       5.03         59         2
               Hitting Pct.                          Lauren Frye           .330         66         3
               Kills/Set                              Lauren Frye           4.68         5           2
               Points/Set                           Lauren Frye           5.02         8           2
               Kills                                    Lauren Frye           468          3           2
 
No Small Frye
• Lauren Frye enters the weekend with 1,640 career kills to rank No. 3 on the all-time list and needs 55 to break Christabell Mariner's program record of 1,695. The senior sits third-nationally in total kills this season with 491 and is second in the conference behind Tarleton's State's Hailey Roberts for the LSC lead. Frye is coming off a monster weekend, recording 60 kills in the three matches, including putting up 23 twice in the wins over Texas Woman's and Western New Mexico. The senior has been named the offensive player of the week three times this season from the Lone Star Conference. Frye has produced the No. 1 and No. 3 kills in a three set match this season across the entire NCAA Division II.
 
                             Frye's Career Ranks        Frye's Season Ranks
                                       Kills - 3rd                              Kills - 6th
                                  Attempts - 1st                        Pct. - 11th
                                     Blocks - 9th                         Points - 5th
                              Block Assists - 5th                             
 
Blocking Brooklyn
• Junior Brooklyn Biel ranks second on the team with 332 kills and is hitting at a .303 clip on the year. The junior middle blocker from Laveen, Ariz. has 62 blocks on the year to lead the team. Biel tied the single match high with a .600 attack percentage against Cameron earlier this season.
 
Acing the Class
• Senior Courtney Lawson was named one of three Academic Greyhounds of the year last year and has 34 double-doubles during her tenure at ENMU, including 10 this season. The senior from Rio Rancho, N.M. has 238 kills, 318 digs and 27 aces to go along with 25 blocks.
 
                                Lawson Career Ranks
                                           Kills - t-5th
                                       Attempts - 5th
                                            Aces - 3rd
                                            Digs - 6th
 
Dime Droppers
• Junior Alexis Aguirre and sophomore Kaitlyn Kluna have set the table for the offense this season, dishing out a combined 1,167 assists. Aguirre has 710 on the year, with Kluna not far behind at 457. Aguirre currently ranks seventh on the career list with 1,812 assists.
 
Can You Dig It??
• Junior libero Andrea Aguilar has 460 digs this season after setting the 10th-highest mark in school history last year with 522. The Clovis, N.M. native climbed into 7th-place on the all-time list for the Greyhounds and eclipsed 1,000 in her career earlier this season against Cameron. Aguilar was named as the conference's Defensive Player of the Week after recording the first 30-dig performance of the season against Texas Woman's. She was the first player to accomplish the feat in four sets for Eastern since Hayley Crouch did so in 2012.
 
All-Tournament Performers
• 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.