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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology volleyball team opens Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (HCAC) conference play Saturday, Sept. 27 when the Engineers travel to Cincinnati, Ohio for a 1 p.m. match against Mount St. Joseph.
Rose-Hulman comes into the contest with an 8-9 record. The Engineers posted a 1-3 record at Illinois Wesleyan last weekend defeating Knox in four sets and falling to Dominican, Monmouth, and St. Xavier.
Sophomore Morgan Dreyer leads the team in kills (125) and attack percentage (.220). Sophomore Emily McLendon and freshman Becca Poppel have 96 and 92 kills respectively.
Dreyer and junior Sarah Jensen have split the setting duties almost exclusively with Dreyer dishing out 263 assists to date and Jensen recording 262 assists through 17 games of the 2014-15 season.
Freshman libero Gabi Razma continues to lead the team in digs with 323 total digs which also ranks her eighth in all of NCAA Division III. The Durango, Colo. native also averages 5.05 digs per set.
Mount St. Joseph also enters the HCAC showdown with an 8-10 record. The Lions went 1-3 at the HCAC/OAC Challenge last weekend defeating Capital and falling to Ohio Northern, Muskingum, and Baldwin Wallace. Mount St. Joseph also fell to Centre College in straight sets on Wednesday
Mount St. Joseph leads the all-time series with Rose-Hulman 8-2 although the Engineers have won two of the previous three meetings. The Lions, however, won last year's matchup in four sets.
"I am eager to see what we do versus HCAC competition," head coach Brenda Goble said. "Our non-conference competition has been decent. We have always have a great rivalry with Mount St. Joseph. This will be a good measuring stick to see where we are at and where we need to go from here."
Rose-Hulman's next four matches are at home including Franklin and Illinois Wesleyan on Oct. 4, Greenville on Oct. 6, and Anderson on Oct. 8.
