Concord Takes on Wheeling for Senior Night Friday, West Liberty Saturday

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ATHENS, W.Va. – The Concord University volleyball team closes out the regular season with home matches against Wheeling 5:00 p.m. Friday and West Liberty 9:00 a.m. Saturday at the Carter Center.
 
LIVE COVERAGE
Stats: Live in-game statistics of both contests will be provided by the Concord University Sports Information Department. 
Video: Live streaming video will also be available for each match. 
 
RECORDS
Concord is 10-19 overall and 4-10 against Mountain East Conference foes this season. 
 
Wheeling is nationally-ranked inside the top 20 with a mark of 26-3 overall and 14-0 in the conference
 
West Liberty has locked up a spot in next week's MEC tournament with a record of 15-14 overall and 7-7 in the conference. 
 
SENIOR TRIO
Prior to Friday's match, head coach Kate Dillon and the program will recognize three seniors: right side Lauren Bethel, setter Jenna Mounts and defensive specialist Erin Shannon. 
 
Mounts and Shannon are two of the more experienced players in the entire MEC. Mounts enters the weekend having played in 444 career sets and has appeared in 125 matches. Last week, the Houston, Ohio native became the sixth player in program history with 1,800 assists and is closing in on 1,900 assists with 1,853 assists. On the season, Mounts has three double-doubles and 15 for her career. 
 
Shannon ranks in the top 30 among active career Division II leaders with 1,758 digs which puts her second in the Concord records. Shannon has appeared in 432 sets at CU and during her sophomore year in 2016 was named to the All-MEC Honorable Mention Team, the only defensive specialist to earn all-conference in head coach Kate Dillon's 11-year tenure at Concord. 
 
Bethel has appeared in 18 matches as a Mountain Lion and has 21 sets payed. The Poca, West Virginia native saw a career-high 12 sets of action last season and hit .080 with four kills in 25 chances. 
 
The three seasons have helped CU to two appearances in the MEC Tournament (2016, 2017) and a 17-16 record during their freshman season. 
 
MARATHON NIGHTS
The Mountain Lions played in their sixth five-set match of the season as they lost in the maximum of games to Glenville State Tuesday despite CU outhitting GSC, .264-.243. Junior right side Kenzie Coulter had a career-best 12 kills while sophomore outside hitter Camryn had her fifth match in eight contests with at least 10 kills as she matched Coulter's total. 
 
MILESTONE AHEADS
Several Concord players have reach single-season highs already this season as Huber has 231 kills after netting 159 last season in her debut season. Speaking of debuts, freshman middle hitter Amber Hall's 235 kills are fifth in the MEC among freshmen. Meanwhile, junior defensive specialist Lindsay Maddox needs 53 digs to reach 500 for the season. 
 
WHEELING AT A GLANCE
The Cardinals are up to number 15 in the latest AVCA Division II National Coaches' Poll. Wheeling has only dropped two sets in MEC play this season and none since October 10. WU is the only team in the league hitting over .250 at .273. Haley Kramer leads the MEC in kills with 296 and a stunning .441 hitting percentage. Because of the success of the Wheeling offense, Stephanie Sylvester is averaging 12.4 assists per set. 
 
WEST LIBERTY AT A GLANCE
Libero Kailee Cunningham is approaching 2,500 digs for her career as she starts the weekend with 2,429 digs, third most among active Division II players. The Hilltoppers enter play on the final weekend of the regular season having lost three straight including getting swept by Urbana and Wheeling. With Cunningham along the back row, WLU is limiting opponents to a .165 hitting percentage this season.