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SAN ANGELO – The Angelo State volleyball team will ride a six-match winning streak into a non-conference contest against Texas-Permian Basin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday at the Falcon Dome in Odessa.

ASU (7-1, 3-0 LSC) comes into the match with a 4-1 non-conference record and is 3-0 on the road this season after picking up road victories last weekend over Cameron, Midwestern State and Harding. The Belles will return to Lone Star Conference action after their match at UTPB (3-3) with a 1 p.m. match on Saturday against Texas A&M-Kingsville at the Junell Center.

Despite going 4-0 last week, Angelo State fell out of the AVCA Coaches Top-25 Poll for the first time in 39 poll releases. The string of consecutive rankings dated back to Sept. 12, 2011.
 
Quotes  ||  Chuck Waddington, Angelo State head coach

On his impressions of last week's matches:
"Anytime you can get wins on the road is a good thing. I felt like we played better and better with each match during the weekend in front of a hostile crowd at both places. We did a good job of handling that by staying the course and focusing on what we could control on our side of the net."

On the progress of the Belles offensive attack:
"We were able to start getting our middles more involved in our offense this week. That also created more opportunities for other players like Abbie and other outsides. We are starting to click better on offense which is a good sign as the season goes on."

On playing against UTPB on Tuesday at the Falcon Dome in Odessa:
"Every time we play them it is a challenging match. They play a style that doesn't match up to our style and their gym is a tough place to play. I'm expecting a tough match."


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Already the all-time digs leader coming into the season, Shelby Wilt continued adding to her record-setting career last weekend by surpassing the 2,000 dig milestone in her career. A senior captain from Dalhart, Wilt recorded a weekend-high 25 digs against Midwestern State and now has 2,022 digs in her career and 160 this season. She surpassed the 2,000 dig mark during the win over MSU and then added 17 more digs to her total in the victory over Harding. She also had four assists during last week's four matches and now has 304 assists in her career.

Along with Wilt, ASU's defense is showing its prowess with the strong play of Katie MacLeay, Kelly Hasbrouck and Alexa Johnson. MacLeay, who is a junior captain with 880 career digs, has contributed 98 digs this season and Hasbrouck has supplied 90. MacLeay recorded a season-high 21 digs against Arkansas Fort Smith and Hasbrouck had a season-high 13 digs against Texas Woman's in the LSC opener. Johnson, who was last week's LSC Setter of the Week, comes into this week with 67 digs on the defensive side of the court and 347 assists (11.57 per set). Johnson is a sophomore transfer from Lamar University who also has 22 kills for the Belles.

Mallory Blauser leads Angelo State with 117 kills (3.90 per set) this season and has also contributed 10 blocks. An outside hitter from Round Rock, Blauser is in her first season at ASU after playing her freshman season at the University of Cincinnati. She recorded a season-high 21 kills against UAFS and is coming off a 16-kill performance against Harding on Saturday. Abbie Lynn, a freshman from Amarillo, is second on the team with 82 kills (3.04 per set). Lynn recorded a career-high 18 kills in the four-set ASU win over Midwestern State on Saturday and has five double-digit kill performances through the first eight matches of the season. Arielle Bond has added 69 kills (2.56 per set) and 11 blocks, while Zoey Hanrahan is at 53 kills and Daeleigh Castile has 39.

Castile, a freshman from Arizona, leads the Angelo State block with 23 block assists, while Hanrahan has 20 blocks (19 assists, 1 solo). Castile also tops the ASU stat sheet with 12 service aces with Wilt at seven aces and Bond with six. Angelo State is hitting .192 as a team and has limited its opposition to a .112 percentage The Belles own a 643-562 dig advantage and have a 417-324 kill margin in their favor. The only statistical deficit ASU has is in blocks where the opposition has a 61-49 advantage.
 
Texas-Permian Basin Falcons
Tuesday, Sept. 16 @ 7 p.m. // Odessa's Falcon Dome
Tuesday, Oct. 28 @ 7 p.m. //  Junell Center/Stephens Arena

Angelo State and Texas-Permian Basin will play a home-and-away non-conference series this season with UTPB hosting in mid-September and the Belles in late October. The Falcons lead the all-time series 6-3 over ASU. The Belles have won the previous two meetings, including taking a 3-1 win last season in Odessa.  

UTPB comes into the match with a 3-3 overall record and a 3-1 Heartland Conference mark. The Falcons have secured victories over Texas A&M International, Newman and Oklahoma Panhandle State but have losses to St. Mary's, Southern Nazarene and Western New Mexico. The team is on a two-match winning streak coming into Tuesday's match against the Belles.

The Falcons finished with a 10-20 overall record last season and went 7-11 in Heartland Conference play. The team ended the season on a five-game losing streak and did not make the postseason. UTPB is led by Dr. Steve Aicinena who is the team's head coach and also the school's athletic director.