Concord Starts Homestead With Three Games This Week

Concord Stats - West Virginia State Stats - Shepherd Stats - Fairmont State Stats - Live Stats - Live Video

ATHENS, W.Va. – The Concord University volleyball team begins a five-match home stand when it welcomes West Virginia State to the Carter Center 7:00 p.m. Wednesday followed by matches against Shepherd 7:00 p.m. Friday and Fairmont State 1:00 p.m. Saturday. 
 
LIVE COVERAGE
Stats: The Concord University Sports Information Department will provide live statistics for all three contests coming up this week. 
Video: Live streaming video will also be available for the matches within the Mountain East Conference. 
 
RECORDS
The Mountain Lions enter the week with a mark of 4-17 overall and 1-5 versus conference foes. 
 
West Virginia State is 16-7 in 2018 and 3-3 in the MEC. The Yellow Jackets play a non-conference match on Tuesday. 
 
Shepherd has compiled a record of 15-5 overall and is tied for third in the MEC standings at 5-2. 
 
Meanwhile, FSU 6-12 overall and 2-5 versus league competition. 
 
MOUNTAIN LION NOTES
CU plays just its sixth home game of the season when it hosts to West Virginia State Wednesday. 
 
The Mountain Lions won their last home game on September 25 over UVa.-Wise as they took the match in three sets. 
 
Concord's most recent matches came against Urbana and Notre Dame on the road in which CU fell in three sets in both instances. 
 
Senior outside hitter Ellie Lawrence had 18 combined kills in the two matches which is the third-most in any two-match stretch for Lawrence this season. Earlier in 2018, the Newport News, Virginia native had 24 kills against Ursuline and Ohio Dominican. 
 
Additionally, Lawrence moved into 10^thplace in all-time percentage at CU at .183 with her performance away from home last week. 
 
Senior libero Erin Shannon notched 15 digs against Notre Dame which marked the 10^thtime this season Shannon has racked up at least 10 digs in a match. The Frankfort, Illinois native is nine digs away from reaching 1,300 for her career. 
 
The last time the Mountain Lions played at the Carter Center they hit a season-high .378 versus UVa.-Wise. Senior middle hitter Brooke Heck hit .615 in the match with nine kills while Lawrence also tallied nine kills with a .500 hitting percentage. 
 
Concord split two matches with West Virginia State last season as each team won at home. CU edged the Yellow Jackets in four sets in the next-to-last match of the season in 2017. 
 
Since the formation of the MEC in 2013, Concord has swept the season series from West Virginia State in the even-numbered years while the squads have split two matches in odd years. 
 
Last season at home versus WVSU, Heck had 12 kills and five blocks while Lawrence chipped in seven kills and 12 digs. 
 
In four career matches versus the Yellow Jackets, Shannon has 93 digs including 33 in a five-set road win for Concord in 2016. 
 
In the 10-year tenure of head coach Kate Dillon, the Mountain Lions have just one win over Shepherd and Fairmont State—a 2012 three-set win over Shepherd. 
 
Two seasons ago when Concord matched up against SU at the Carter Center, the match went five sets with the Rams edging out a win. 
 
For CU, Heck notched 12 kills while Shannon went for 23 digs. 
 
WEST VIRGINIA STATE AT A GLANCE
The Yellow Jackets are guided by second-year head coach Kris Kern who has already surpassed last year's win total of 14. Two seasons ago, WVSU won just six matches before Kern took over. 
 
West Virginia State is just one of three teams in the MEC hitting above .200 at .210 for the season. 
 
Gabrielle Bullock has notched a team-best best 181 kills to go along with a .287 hitting percentage. 
 
SHEPHERD AT A GLANCE
The Rams are hitting one point better than West Virginia State on the season at .211—ranking second in the league. 
 
Peyton Lindblad paces the attack for the Rams as she has racked up the second-most kills in the league with 268 while hitting .275 this season.
 
Shepherd has won six straight matches and eight of its last 10 heading into play this weekend. 
 
FAIRMONT STATE AT A GLANCE
The Fighting Falcons lead the MEC in blocks per set at 2.31. Individually, Taylor Wisniewski is first in the conference with 1.41 blocks per set while Rebecca Feeney is tied for second at 1.14 blocks per set. 
 
Fairmont State had to replace Division II National Player of the Year from a season ago in Mackenzie Harrison.