VOLLEYBALL HOSTS OMAHA, DENVER FOR SENIOR WEEKEND

Thursday, November 11

Brookings, S.D.

7 p.m. CT

South Dakota State University

Omaha

Photo by: Dave Eggen/Inertia Sports Media

11/11/2021 8:30:00 AM | Women's Volleyball

MATCH 26: South Dakota State vs. Omaha

When	Thursday, Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. CT
Where	Brookings, S.D., Frost Arena
TV	GoJacks.com/Watch
Live Stats	GoJacksLive.com
Match Notes	South Dakota State \| Summit League
Social Media	Twitter \| Facebook

MATCH 27: South Dakota State vs. Denver

When	Saturday, Nov. 3 at noon CT
Where	Brookings, S.D., Frost Arena
TV	GoJacks.com/Watch
Live Stats	GoJacksLive.com
Match Notes	South Dakota State \| Summit League
Social Media	Twitter \| Facebook

South Dakota State volleyball will hosts its final home weekend of the season starting Thursday night at Frost Arena. SDSU will host Omaha Thursday night and Denver Saturday for Senior Day.

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE
SDSU moved to 16-9 overall and 8-6 in Summit League contests with a pair of road wins last weekend. The wins secured a winning season for the Jacks for the first time since 2012. The Jackrabbits' 16 victories this season matches the 2012 team's win total.

Crystal Burk tops the Summit League in kills per set, notching 3.83 on average. She has 12 double-doubles on the season and posted 20-plus kills for the fourth time this year at Western Illinois. Burk is second on the squad in dig average with 2.55 per set. She trails only Tatum Pickar, who ranks sixth in the Summit with an even 4.0 digs per set.

Chloe Stitt also ranks on the Summit League kill chart. The senior sits eighth in the conference with 3.05 kills per set. Burk and Stitt have combined for 648 of the Jacks' 1,206 kills this season, more than 50 percent.

Freshman Ella Thompson leads State with 87 total blocks this year and .99 blocks per set. Sydney Andrewsd add .75 blocks per set and Elyse Winter chips in .59 on average.

POSTSEASON PICTURE
SDSU needs just one more League win to guarantee a spot in the Summit League Postseason Tournament. The Jackrabbits are sixth in the standings at 8-6 and have four matches remaining. If the Jacks were to lose all four remaining matches, they would still make the tournament if North Dakota State drops just one match. NDSU is seventh with a 5-10 record and three matches to play.

MILESTONE WATCH
Crystal Burk - 991 career kills
Crystal Burk - 874 career digs

LAST TIME OUT
South Dakota State volleyball battled to a five-set victory over Western Illinois last Sunday at Western Hall in Macomb, The Jackrabbits won the first two sets (25-18, 31-29), dropped sets three and four (24-26, 22-25) and rallied to take set five 15-10.

SDSU pulled away from Western Illinois partway through the opening set and led 16-10 after an 8-1 run. The stretch featured three kills and a service ace by Stitt. The Jackrabbits registered a .342 attack rate in the set and held the Leathernecks to .097.

The Leathernecks used an 8-1 run of their own in set two to go up 18-12. SDSU answered by bringing the set back to within one point, trailing just 18-19. Three straight kills by Crystal Burk held off set point for WIU and gave SDSU a 25-24 advantage. Neither team could go up by more than two until the Jacks finally notched a kill and a block for the 31-29 win.

SDSU was held to a .044 clip in set three and .18 in set four. The Jacks stormed back from a 5-1 deficit to take a 12-9 lead in the third set and led 23-21 before Western Illinois outscored State 5-1 for the win.

Set four was also closely contested and included 13 ties and four lead changes. Western Illinois forced set five with a 6-2 ending to win the fourth game.

Carly Wedel recorded a new career high with 66 assists to go with 12 digs. Four Jackrabbits tallied double-digit kill totals. Crystal Burk had 22 kills, followed by Chloe Stitt (21), Elyse Winter (12) and Sydney Andrews (11). Winter, a freshman, set a new career high.

The Jackrabbits also had four players with double-digit digs. Tatum Pickar paced the back row with 28 digs while Burk added 18 and Jefferson chipped in 10 to go with Wedel's 12.

UP NEXT
The Jackrabbits will wrap up the regular season next weekend at North Dakota and North Dakota State.