Match Information
Opponent	Army West Point Black Knights
Date	Saturday, October 19, 2019
Time	2:00 p.m.
Location	West Point, N.Y. | Gillis Field House
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Game Notes	Loyola

Greyhounds Open Two-Match Road Trip

• Loyola travels to West Point, New York, to play the first of two-straight matches on the road. The Greyhounds face the U.S. Military Academy at 2 p.m. on Saturday, October 19, in the first of those two contests.
• Loyola returns to take on American University on Tuesday, October 22, at 7 p.m. in Washington, D.C.

Last Time Out

• Lehigh had 13 total blocks in three sets, and the Mountain Hawks posted a 27-25, 25-21, 25-18 Patriot League victory over host Loyola on Tuesday night in Reitz Arena.
• Ann Ernst had a match-best 16 kills, while Abby Hamilton chipped in 12, for Loyola, but the Lehigh hit .228 to the Greyhounds' .093. Katie Forsythe had 19 digs for the Greyhounds, and Dwyer pushed out 26 assists.

One Of Five

• Ann Ernst accomplished a milestone that only four other Loyola players have reached, becoming the fifth player in program history to reach 1,000 kills and 1,000 digs in her career.
• She logged her 1,000th dig in last week's match against Navy after crossing the 1,000-kill plateau last season. Through three-plus seasons and 106 career matches, Ernst has 1,393 kills and 1,023 digs.
• Ernst joined a list that includes Nina Camaioni (2007-10; 1,772 kills and 1,697 digs), Becky Corb (2002-05; 1,629 and 1,038), Shauna Lagatol (1996-99; 1,320 and 1,091) and Carisa Kreichaug (1997-2000; 1,299 and 1,071).

Tag Team

• Ann Ernst and Abby Hamilton have been the most prolific hitting tandem in the Patriot League this season, ranking first and second, respectively, in total kills. Ernst has posted 289 kills, while Hamilton has 284 in one additional set thus far for the Greyhounds.
• On a per-set basis, Ernst is second in the conference with 3.80 kills, while Hamilton checks in third at 3.69. In Patriot League matches, they rank one-two with Ernst averaging 4.38 and Hamilton 4.29.
• Ann Ernst and Abby Hamilton both rank in the top-25 in NCAA Division I in total kills; Ernst is 24th (289), and Hamilton is 25th (284)

Fastest To 1,000

• Sophomore libero Katie Forsythe became the fastest player to 1,000 digs in Loyola and Patriot League history on Sunday when she picked up her 15th of the match against NJIT on September 22.
• The Ohio native crossed the milestone in the second set of her 44th career match. Last year, she set the Patriot League and Loyola single-season records with 697 digs; she has 444 in 20 contests this year, and her 1,141 career digs rank seventh in Loyola's all-time history.
• In November 2018, Forsythe set a pair of single-season digs records, rewriting history at both the school and conference levels. In Loyola's win at College of the Holy Cross, her 14th and final dig gave her 613 to break the Patriot League record set by Bucknell's Kristen Sydlowski in 2006. The next night, in a five-set win at the U.S. Military Academy, Forsythe totaled 23 digs, passing Brittany Born's school record of 626 digs in 2007 in the process.

National Numbers

• Katie Forsythe is third in all of NCAA Division I in total digs (444) this season, and she is ranked sixth in digs per set (5.77). Ashley Dwyer, despite playing as a 6-2 setter for the year's first several matches, is 15th in the NCAA in total assists (742).
• As a team, Loyola ranks eighth in total assists (981), ninth in digs (1,326) and 10th in kills (1,034).

Upping Her Output

• Abby Hamilton started all 30 matches as a freshman and was second on the team with 354 kills, an average of 2.97 per set. This year, through 16 contests the Wisconsin native has increased her per-set mark significantly, checking in at 3.62 with 257 total kills. Hamilton has done this while raising her hitting percentage from .172 last year to .210 this season.
• Hamilton picked up All-Tournament honors at the Greyhounds' last three events, the Rambler Challenge, Charm City Challenge and the Tiger Invitational. She was named Patriot League Player of the Week for the first time in her career on September 18 after earning Charm City Challenge Most Valuable Player honors.
• Over the last 13 contests, Hamilton has averaged 4.43 kills per set with 208 total to lead the Greyhounds in those categories.

Career-High To Start

• Ann Ernst came out of the gates with a strong performance for the Greyhounds against Furman in the first match of 2019. She posted a career-best 26 kills against the Paladins to top her previous best of 24 she put away against Akron her freshman year.
• Ernst led the Patriot League in kills per set last season (3.58), and her .192 hitting percentage was more than 40 points higher than her .148 career mark.
• Over the course of her three-plus seasons – Ernst has played in 106 career matches – she has recorded 10 or more kills 79 times (74.5 percent of the time), 15 or more kills 43 times (40.6) and 20 or more 12 times (11.3).
• Her 1,393 career kills rank fourth all-time at Loyola, and on October 11 she became the fifth player in school history with 1,000 kills and 1,000 digs in a career.

Ashley's Assists

• After playing with a 6-2 rotation in the first four matches of the season, Ashley Dwyer became Loyola's setter in a 5-1 on September 6 against Western Michigan. In the 15 matches since, she is averaging 10.95 assists per set, and Loyola is hitting .208. The Greyhounds hit just .163 in the first four matches of the year.
• Dwyer has posted 31 or more assists in the 15 matches as the primary setter and has 41 or more in all but two. She had a career-high 58 in five sets against New Hampshire.