Women's Volleyball | 11/16/2016 5:10:00 PM

The ENMU Greyhound volleyball team travels to the Lone Star Conference Tourna­ment to take on Texas A&M-Commerce in the first round of action. Eastern earned the fourth overall seed in the championships with a 13-7 record in league play. Commerce enters the matchup with a 19-12 record overall.
 
For live stats and streaming video for all seven matches in San Angelo, visit angelosports.com/sports/2016/11/3/2016-lsc-volleyball-tournament-championship.aspx
 
• ENMU Head Coach Sia Poyer (52-70), 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. Poyer served as an assistant at Eastern for 14 years before receiving his first head coaching job at Valdosta State.
 
• The 'Hounds and Lions have met annually since the 2007 season. Over that span, Eastern is 1-12, with the lone victory coming this year at Greyhound Arena on Oct. 7. ENMU got 15 kills from Lauren Frye and 23 digs from Andrea Aguilar in the win.
 
• Eastern is riding an impressive hot streak, going 8-2 in the last 10 matches. Over that stretch, the Greyhounds have dropped just 10 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.
 
• This season, Eastern has seen a number of milestones for both season and career statistics.
- Sia Poyer's 50th-Win
- Most Home Wins Since 2002
- First Winning Season since 2004
- Andrea Aguilar & Courtney Lawson's 1,000th Dig
- Lauren Frye Four Times Named LSC Offensive Player of the Week
- First team to beat West Texas A&M in consecutive years since '03-04
- Victory Over 10th-Ranked Angelo State
 
• Eastern ranks in the top-100 in NCAA DII in a number of statistical categories:
 
Category # Nat'l. LSC
Assists/Set 13.12 13 1
Hitting Pct. .201 96 6
Kills/Set 13.87 19 3
Assists 1,482 10 2
Kills 1,567 15 2
Attacks 4,148 53 5
 
• 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 1
Total Digs Andrea Aguilar 498 83 3
Hitting Pct. Lauren Frye .321 80 4
Kills/Set Lauren Frye 4.71 5 2
Points/Set Lauren Frye 5.02 7 2
Kills Lauren Frye 527 3 2
 
NO SMALL FRYE
• Lauren Frye enters the tournament with 1,676 career kills to rank No. 3 on the all-time list and needs 19 to break Christabell Mariner's program record of 1,695. The senior sits third-nationally in total kills this season with 527 and is second in the conference, five kills be­hind Tarleton's State's Hailey Roberts for the LSC lead. Frye is com­ing off a monster weekend, recording 59 kills in the three matches, including going over 20 in the wins over Western New Mexico and Angelo State. The senior has been named the offensive player of the week four times this season from the Lone Star Conference. Frye has produced the No. 1 and No. 4 kills in a three set match this season across the entire NCAA Division II.
 
BROOKLYN BRIDGE
• Junior Brooklyn Biel ranks second on the team with 351 kills and is hitting at a .296 clip on the year. The junior middle blocker from Laveen, Ariz. has 69 blocks on the year to lead the team. Biel tied the single match high with a .600 attack percentage against Cameron earlier this season.
 
LAYING DOWN THE LAW-SON
• Senior Courtney Lawson was named one of three Academic Greyhounds of the year last year and has 35 double-doubles during her tenure at ENMU, including 11 this season. The senior from Rio Rancho, N.M. has 255 kills, 341 digs and 27 aces to go along with 29 blocks. The senior is an ace away from matching the second-most in school history, tying Irma Cobos with 131 in her career.
 
DIME DROPPERS
• Senior Tiana Roebuck, junior Alexis Aguirre and sophomore Kait­lyn Kluna have set the table for the offense this season, dishing out a combined 1,352 assists. Aguirre has 759 on the year, with Kluna  at 457 and Roebuck with 136, setting a new career-high. Aguirre currently ranks seventh on the career list with 1,861 assists.
 
AWESOME ANDREA AGUILAR
• Junior libero Andrea Aguilar has 498 digs this season and leads the Lone Star Conference with 5.03 digs/set 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. The psy­chology major is in a three-way tie for third on the all-time list.
 
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.