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Davenport University Athletics

DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY PANTHERS
Lexie Beeke
Walter Cronk

Women's Volleyball Cooper Weidenthaler, Assistant Manager of Athletic Communications

PREVIEW: Panthers Set to Face Pride and Rangers Again

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - The Davenport University women's volleyball team will play its final home match of the regular season on Friday against Purdue Northwest (4 p.m.) before traveling to Parkside on Saturday (2 p.m.). Currently sitting at third in the GLIAC standings with four matches to play, the Panthers (19-7, 10-4 GLIAC) are in search of their 20th win, something the program hasn't done since 2015. DU leads the all-time series with PNW, 11-0 (never lost a set), and UWP, 8-2 (won four straight).

LAST TIME OUT - Purdue Northwest
(-8, -23, -12)
Box Score

Match Notes
- Davenport hit .323 for the match, their second-highest clip of the season (.398 vs. Newberry) and highest against a GLIAC foe on the road since Oct. 5, 2019, also at PNW.
- Purdue Northwest hit .062, which was tied for the second-lowest mark by a DU opponent this season, and the Panthers were 15-2 this season when the other team hit .200 or lower.
- The Panthers came out red hot hitting an absurd .556 in the first set with 17 kills and only two errors on 27 total attacks.
- Kreiger made it 11 double-doubles for the season and 29 for her career.
- Kalinowski set a new season high in aces with three and had back-to-back outings with two or more for the second time this season.
- Kreiger tied her season high in aces with three, a feat she'd reached twice this fall.
- Twenty matches into the season, head coach Brian Netzler tied his personal best in wins for a season with 16 set last fall.

LAST TIME OUT - Parkside
(22-25, -14, -15, 22-25, -12)
Box Score

Match Notes
- While reaching the 25-kill mark for the seventh time in her career, Kreiger made it 10 double-doubles for the season and 28 for her career.
- Beeke notched multiple kills in six-straight matches, something she did four times in the 13 matches before that stretch.
- On the night she was honored for reaching 1,000 career digs, Corstange sent home three service aces, the most since her freshman season.
- Kalinowski tied her season high in aces with two and had had that many in four matches this season.
- In just her third match back from injury, Webb racked up seven kills, six blocks, three digs, and a service ace seeing time in all five sets.
- Beeke tallied 25 or more assists for the sixth time this fall.
- Corstange's 26 digs were five off her season high and she'd gone for 20 or more in eight matches this season.
- Taylor reached the 10-dig mark in a match for the sixth time in her last seven matches and ninth time this season.
 
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