‘Dogs end the season with two home matches; seniors to be honored Saturday

Saturday, November 18

Fresno, CA

1:00 PM

Fresno State

Wyoming

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‘Dogs end the season with two home matches; seniors to be honored Saturday

11/16/2017 2:28:00 PM | Women's Volleyball

By: Andrew Tomsky / Assistant Director of Communications

Wyoming at Fresno State
Nov. 18, 2017 • 1:00 PM • Save Mart Center (3,333) • Fresno, Calif.
Radio: 790 AM ESPN2
Video: Mountain West Network
Live: Live Stats • Live Updates on Twitter (@FresnoStateVB)
Series History: Wyoming Leads 16-11
Promotions:
• Senior Day - Pregame Ceremony
• Staff and Faculty Appreciation Day

UNLV at Fresno State
Nov. 20, 2017 • 6:00 PM • Save Mart Center (3,333) • Fresno, Calif.
TV: Stadium OTT
Video: Mountain West Network
Live: Live Stats • Live Updates on Twitter (@FresnoStateVB)
Series History: UNLV Leads 10-7
Promotions:
• Ability Day
• Football ticket giveaway for Boise State game

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Scouting Wyoming (17-12, 12-5 MW)
• Wyoming locked up a second-place finish in the Mountain West with a 3-1 win over San Diego State on Wednesday. The Cowgirls have won five of their last six matches and three straight.
• Wyoming has actually been better on the road this season than at home with a 7-3 overall road record and a 6-2 mark in road MW contests. The squad was 1-1 in road non-conference.
• The Cowgirls rank second in the MW in hitting percentage and opponent hitting percentage and are third in blocks per set. The team ranks ninth in aces per set and sixth in digs per set. Reed Copeland leads the team hitting .322 and Marissa Harmon averages 9.57 assists per set.
• Fresno State beat Wyoming, 3-2, in Fresno in the last meeting between the teams last season. The Cowgirls had won five straight matches over the Bulldogs before that Fresno State win.

Scouting UNLV (8-21, 4-12 MW)
• UNLV has lost six straight matches to fall into last place in the MW. The Rebels have won just three sets in their last six matches and will host Air Force on Saturday before coming to Fresno.
• In the first meeting between the 'Dogs and Rebels this year, in Las Vegas on Oct. 12, Taylor Slover and Madelyn Halteman both had double-doubles as the 'Dogs pulled out a 3-2 win in five sets. Fresno State outblocked UNLV 16.0-12.0 in the match with a 76-67 edge in digs.
• For the season UNLV ranks last in the MW in kills, assists, hitting percentage, and opposing hitting percentage but is fourth with 2.34 blocks per set. Mariena Hayden is second in the league with 37 service aces (but has 57 errors) and Ashley Owens ranks third with 138 blocks.
• UNLV had won six of seven meetings with the Bulldogs before the Fresno State win Oct. 12.

Senior Moments
• Fresno State's two seniors - libero Jacqueline Hutcheson and middle blocker Lauren Torres - will play their final collegiate matches this weekend and will be honored prior to the 'Dogs match against Wyoming on Saturday.
• Hutcheson and Torres have both been four-year Hornets and have both played in every set this season while starting every match.
• The pair have etched their names in the program record book as Torres is eighth in program history with 336 career blocks and Hutcheson is eighth with 125 career service aces and nearing the top-10 in career digs.

Nearing 1,000
• Hutcheson has 973 career digs with two matches remaining in her collegiate career. She needs just 27 digs over the last two matches to become the 10th player in program history to record 1,000 career digs.
• A starting libero for the first time as a senior, Hutcheson has averaged 3.71 digs per set and 14.0 digs per match in her final collegiate season. If she stays on that pace she would end her career with 1,001 career digs.

Block Party
• Fresno State leads the Mountain West and is 14th in NCAA Div. I with 291.5 blocks this season. The 'Dogs average of 2.75 blocks per set is also second best in the league and 17th in the nation.
• The team's 291.5 total blocks are third most in a season in the rally scoring era (2001-pres.). The 'Dogs are just 24.5 blocks behind the single season program record of 316.0 blocks, set in 2003.
• The Bulldogs have had the same or more blocks than their opponent in 12 Mountain West matches, averaging 2.88 blocks per set in league play.
• Fresno State has recorded double-digit blocks in 15 matches this year, including nine of the last 15, and has had more blocks than its opponent 16 times. The team had 19.0 blocks Nov. 3 at Air Force, second most this season behind the three-set program-record 21.0 blocks vs. CSU Bakersfield.
• Haile Watson and Lauren Torres are both averaging better than 1.00 blocks per set this season while Taylor Slover, Aubrey Folk, Brielle Hefner, and Montez Uigaese average better than half a block.

Home Cooking
• Dating back to last season the Bulldogs have won seven of their last 10 home matches.
• Fresno State is 5-3 at home this season averaging 3.35 blocks per set on its home floor, tallying at least 12.0 blocks in six of the eight home matches.
• The 'Dogs have outblocked their opponents 104-62 at home while outhitting the opposition .219-.177 over 31 home sets.
• The squad has had a winning home record in each of the last two years and in five of the last six seasons.

Big Time Blocker
• Junior Haile Watson is second in the Mountain West averaging 1.36 blocks per set in conference matches. Overall this season she ranks 28th in NCAA Div. I with 137 total blocks and is 40th with 1.29 blocks per set. She has recorded at least five blocks in 16 matches this year and her blocks per set average would be the fifth best in a season in program history.
• Watson became the first player in program history to tally 10 blocks in a three-set match, topping the previous record of nine achieved twice, on Sept. 5 vs. CSU Bakersfield. She set a new career-high with 12 blocks at Air Force, tying for the second most blocks in a five-set match in program history.

Strong Support
• Fresno State ranks fourth in the Mountain West averaging 798 fans over eight official home dates.
• Factoring in the 1,297 fans that saw the exhibition match vs. Fresno Pacific, the 'Dogs home average would be 853 fans per game, which would be the third highest average among conference teams.

Super Serving
• Freshman Sydney Lostumo is fourth in the Mountain West averaging 0.31 service aces per set this season with 19 total aces in just 16 matches played.
• She has had at least one ace in nine of 16 league matches and multiple aces five times. Since making her collegiate debut starting in the 'Dogs MW opener at Boise State Lostumo has also averaged 4.76 assists and 1.22 digs per set.

A Season on the Road
• Fresno State played 20 matches away from Fresno this season (15 road and five neutral) compared to just eight official home matches.
• No other MW team has played fewer than 11 home matches; Colorado State leads the league having played 18 home matches.
• The Bulldogs started the season with 13 of their first 14 official matches played outside of Fresno. The team was on the road for five consecutive weeks to start the year and had just one official home match over the first 34 days of the season.

Happy Homecoming
• Playing in her home state, Aubrey Folk had a career-high 17 kills while hitting a season-best .406 at New Mexico on Oct. 14.
• The Aztec, N.M. native totaled 11 kills over the last two sets with six in the third set to help force the fourth. She had 11 kills and no errors in 21 swings over the last two sets for a .524 hitting percentage.
Beating Tournament Teams
• Fresno State picked up its second win this season against a 2016 NCAA Tournament Team with a 3-2 victory at UNLV Oct. 12. The Rebels reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament last season with an at-large bid and a win in the opening round.
• The Bulldogs also had a 3-1 win over Alabama State earlier this season, beating a Lady Hornets team that won the SWAC last season to earn an NCAA bid.

6-2 Shift
• Fresno State changed to a 6-2 lineup the second week of MW play with sophomore Madelyn Halteman and freshman Sydney Lostumo splitting time as setter.
• The two have combined for 9.48 assists per set with 30 service aces in the 14 matches with the formation. Both setters have averaged better than 4.20 assists per set and 0.25 aces per set.

Brielle Hitting Well
• Junior Brielle Hefner has been a consistent offensive threat all season as she leads the team's outside hitters swinging .236 and is second with 2.54 kills per set.
• Hefner had her best match at San Francisco, recording a career-high 25 kills while hitting .404. She had 13 kills and no errors on her first 26 swings of the match as she more than doubled her previous career high of 12 kills and tied for the most kills by a Bulldog this season.

21 Jump Night
• On Sept. 5 Fresno State recorded 21.0 blocks, a program record for a three-set match and still the highest three-set total recorded by an NCAA Div. I team this season.
• The Bulldogs broke the previous three-set program record of 15.0 blocks set against Hawaii in 2007. The squad came within one block of the overall program record of 22.0 blocks set in a four-set match
• The total was the highest for any Div. I match this season before Western Kentucky tallied 23.0 blocks in a five-set match. The 'Dogs had five blocks in the first set, nine in the second set, and seven in the third set.

Taylor Terrific
• For the season junior Taylor Slover leads the team averaging 3.70 points per set. She has led the team in kills in 17 matches, tallying double-digit kills 17 times.
• Slover put together one of the best matches of her career against San Jose State, hitting .514 with 21 kills and just two attack errors. She finished just shy of her career-high of 25 kills tallied in the 2017 season opener vs. Utah Valley.

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