GWU Volleyball To Play Three Road Matches This Week
September 26, 2011 | Volleyball
Boiling Springs, N.C. - The Gardner-Webb volleyball team will continue its tough schedule with three road matches this week over a five-day span, including two Big South road contests over the weekend at Radford and at Liberty.
The Runnin' Bulldogs are coming off a heart-breaking five set loss on Friday night to the Asheville Bulldogs in the two teams' Big South Conference opener. After taking the first two sets at 25-12 each, the Runnin' Bulldogs struggled to put the match away and dropped the next three sets to lose the match 3-2.
Prior to Friday night's loss, Gardner-Webb had posted back-to-back three set wins over Wofford and at home against Western Carolina in dominating fashion.
GWU, who is 4-10 overall, will be searching for its first true road win of the season, having gone 0-4 thus far this year.
The Runnin' Bulldogs will tip-off play this week with a non-conference match up with USC Upstate on Tuesday night at 7 p.m. in Spartanburg, S.C.
Gardner-Webb is 3-1 versus the Spartans since 2000 and defeated USC Upstate 3-1 last season at home in the two teams' last meeting.
Upstate is 3-9 overall thus far this season with two of those wins coming over Western Carolina. The Spartans are 1-1 at home in the Hodge Center on the year and are 0-1 versus the Big South Conference this season having fallen to Radford back on September 2nd.
On Friday night, the Runnin' Bulldogs jump back into conference play, as GWU will take on the Radford Highlanders at 7 p.m. in Radford, Va.
The Runnin' Bulldogs, who are 2-4 versus the Highlanders since 2000, have dropped two straight to Radford after having swept them back in 2009.
Radford, who was picked to finish ninth in the Big South Preseason Coaches' Poll and just ahead of Gardner-Webb, enters play this week at 4-9 overall and 0-1 in the Big South having suffered a 3-2 loss to Liberty last week.
The Highlanders, which play North Carolina Central on the road Tuesday night, are 2-2 at home thus far this season with wins over USC Upstate and Chicago State.
On Saturday afternoon, the Runnin' Bulldogs will return to the court to take on the Big South Preseason favorites in Liberty, who are a perfect 10-0 versus the Runnin' Bulldogs since 2000.
Liberty, who also plays on Friday night, enters competition this week at 6-9 overall and 1-0 in conference play. The Lady Flames are a perfect 3-0 at home thus far this season and are coming off a 3-2 win over Radford last week in which Liberty posted a record 20.5 team total blocks for the match.
Both conference matches on Friday and Saturday are scheduled to be video streamed live by the Big South Network, presented by State Farm, and can be accessed by going to www.bigsouthsports.com.
Live stats for Friday night's match will be available at www.ruhighlanders.com, while live stats for Saturday afternoon's match at Liberty are available at www.libertyflames.com.
Links to all live media platforms are available on the volleyball schedule page at www.gwusports.com.
To view the complete week six volleyball match notes click on the attached pdf or go to the weekly notes link on the top menu of the volleyball home page.
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| Week Six Volleyball Match Notes |
