NEW ORLEANS – The New Orleans Privateers volleyball team will wrap up their home slate this week with a pair of matches. Thursday features a tilt against the UTRGV Vaqueros at 6:30 p.m. The home finale is on Saturday against the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders at 12 p.m.
New Orleans last played on Saturday when they celebrated Senior Day ahead of the match against HCU. The Privateers lost 3-0 to the Huskies.
Buse Kocakaya led the offense with six kills on the afternoon.
Courtney Roundtree has notched a block in each of the last five matches and has only been held without a block twice this season. Roundtree has 52 total blocks on the year with 19 of them solo. She is three blocks away from matching her season total from last year.
Dayla Ward has 18 digs in her last two matches. The true freshman posted 11 digs against Stephen F. Austin and had seven against HCU. Her season-high was 30 in late August against the Arkansas-Pine Bluff Golden Lions.
The Privateers have played UTRGV twice since the school was created from a merge of UT-Pan American and UT-Brownsville in 2013. The Privateers won a five-set battle in 2015 and the Vaqueros won a four-set match in 2021.
There will be a reunion when the Islanders come into town on Saturday. Former Privateers student-athlete and graduate assistant, Mauri Carver is in her first season as an assistant coach for Texas A&M-Corpus Christi.
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UTRGV is in a battle for a top three seed in the Southland Tournament. They enter the week tied for third in the conference standings at 9-3. The Vaqueros are second in the conference in points per set at 17.30. Isabella Constantini is the conference leader in assists per set at 11.21 heading into Thursday.
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi is tied with the aforementioned Vaqueros for third in the league standings. Leah Stolfus has the fourth best hitting percentage in the league at .352. The Islanders lead the Southland in digs per set at 16.77 despite no individuals appearing in the top ten in the conference in digs per set.
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