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ATHENS, W.Va. – The Concord University volleyball team concludes the regular season at home 7:00 p.m. Friday against Shepherd before opposing Fairmont State 1:00 p.m. Saturday.
LIVE COVERAGE
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PLAYOFF SCENARIOS
CU has clinched a spot in next week's Mountain East Conference Tournament that will be hosted by Wheeling Jesuit.
The Mountain Lions enter the final weekend of MEC play tied for fifth with Urbana with both teams sporting an 8-6 mark in the MEC. Notre Dame and UVa.-Wise are tied for seventh at 7-7.
CU owns the tiebreaker over UVa.-Wise as the Mountain Lions took five sets against the Cavaliers while UVa.-Wise only won three sets versus Concord. However, the Maroon and Gray doesn't own the tiebreaker against either UU or NDC.
Concord and UVa.-Wise both finish the season with Fairmont State (tied for third) and Shepherd (eliminated from postseason contention) while Urbana and Notre Dame face Glenville State and West Virginia Wesleyan this weekend. Both GSC and WVWC have been eliminated from postseason consideration.
If Concord went 2-0 this weekend and West Liberty and Fairmont State both went 0-2, and Urbana was one game worse than CU in the standings, the Mountain Lions could vault as high as third in the MEC standings.
MOUNTAIN LION NOTES
Concord got to 17-13 overall and 8-6 in the conference by taking both matches against West Virginia State and Charleston at home.
The Mountain Lions are 10-1 at home this season, matching the best home win total under head coach
Kate Southcott. In 2011, CU went 10-4 at home.
The lone loss for Concord at the Carter Center in 2016 was against nationally-ranked and defending national champion, Wheeling Jesuit.
Furthermore, the Mountain Lions are one win away from matching the most wins Southcott has amassed in a single season at CU in her eight-year tenure.
In 2014, Concord won 18 games.
CU was able to beat second-place Charleston in three sets Saturday by hitting .266.
Heading into that particular match, the Golden Eagles were limiting their opponents to a .134 hitting percentage this season.
Sophomore middle hitter
Brooke Heck and redshirt freshman outside hitter
Ellie Lawrence hit .381 and .290, respectively, in the match as both tallied 11 kills.
Freshman middle hitter
Emily Ellis added five kills and five blocks.
Going into this weekend, Ellis is ranked third in the MEC in blocks per set, 1.09, and is part of the reason why CU is fourth as a team in blocks per set in the league, 2.06.
Sophomore libero
Erin Shannon is second in the MEC in digs per set (5.21) and junior setter
Casey Mandeville is seventh in the conference in assists per set (5.81).
Meanwhile, Heck is sixth in hitting percentage (.305)
Shannon needs six more digs to become the first CU player to have 600 digs in a season since Concord became a Division II school. Additionally, no CU player has had 600 digs in a season since 1989.
Concord dropped both matches to Shepherd and Fairmont State last season.
Mandeville just missed a double-double of 12 assists and eight digs while junior middle hitter
Shea Hoffman added five kills.
At Fairmont State, Heck had seven kills while Shannon had a then-career-high 32 digs.
SCOUTING SHEPHERD
The Rams are 11-19 overall and 4-10 in MEC play, having won two matches in a row.
Peyton Lindblad is two kills shy of 300 for the season.
Christine Jackson has recorded 75 blocks this season for SU.
SCOUTING FAIRMONT STATE
FSU is 17-12 this season and 9-5 against conference schools.
Mackenzie Harrison is averaging 4.12 kills per set, second in the MEC. Harrison is seventh in the conference in blocks per set, 0.95.
The Fighting Falcons have only won four true road games this year and will travel to UVa.-Wise Friday night.
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