Match Information
Opponent	Lafayette Leopards
Date	Saturday, October 14, 2023
Time	4:00 p.m.
Location	Baltimore, Md. | Reitz Arena
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Game Notes	Loyola

Seeing You So Soon

• Loyola University Maryland returns to Reitz Arena on Saturday, October 14, to face Lafayette College for the second time in eight days.
• The Leopards hosted Loyola on Friday, October 6, beating the Greyhounds in three in Easton, Pennsylvania.
• This Saturday's match is slated to start at 4 p.m.

Last Time Out

• Loyola split a pair of matches last weekend, falling in three to Lafayette before sweeping College of the Holy Cross on Sunday at home.
• Caitlin Churney led the Greyhounds with eight kills against Lafayette last Friday, while Rose McDermott had 16 digs.
• The Greyhounds came back on Sunday to sweep Holy Cross with Lauren Link's 14 kills leading the way. Churney, Sophie Brenner, Kennedy Stevens and Morgan Crawford all had six kills in the win, as well, while McDermott posted 15 digs.

Settling In On The Outside

• Morgan Crawford had the best back-to-back matches of her freshman season, totaling 24 kills in a pair of matches against Lehigh and Bucknell.
• The native of Richmond, Virginia, hit .210 from the outside and averaged 3.43 kills per set in the matches while finishing second on the team in total kills.
• She entered last weekend averaging 1.86 kills per set, but her most-recent games have moved that number to 1.98.
• Since the start of Patriot League play, Crawford is averaging 2.27 kills per set and has three matches with 10 or more kills. In non-conference matches, she averaged 1.76 per set. 

Churney In The Middle

• Caitlin Churney has led Loyola with a .333 hitting percentage since September 8, totaling 75 kills with only 22 errors in 159 attempts in the 11 matches that included the Jack Kaiser Volleyball Classic at St. John's and the Greyhounds' eight Patriot League matches thus far.
• She has hit .400 or higher in five of the last 11 matches (Siena, Stony Brook, Navy) and had a .455 mark with 11 kills and one error versus Navy.
• Churney leads Loyola in blocks this year with 49 total, an average of 0.80 per set. Her season-high of seven came against Navy when she had two solos and was in on five others.

Soares Sets

• Bryanne Soares has stepped in as a six-rotation setter for most of the last 11 matches after the Greyhounds opened the year in a 5-2. 
• Since the Stony Brook on September 8, Soares has 322 assists (9.4 per set) with a season- and Loyola-high of 43 coming in the four-set match against Navy; overall she has three matches since September 8 with 40 or more assists.
• Soares also has been a key component on defense, and is second on the team with 2.49 digs per set; she is averaging 3.09 digs per set since the Stony Brook match.

Link-ing The Kills

• Lauren Link broke out as a sophomore outside hitter for the Greyhounds in 2021, finishing second on the team with 3.24 kills per set, a mark good for fifth-best in the Patriot League. She had 17 matches with 10 or more kills, including each of the Greyhounds' last 13 contests. During that stretch, she averaged 14.1 kills per match and 3.6 kills per set.
• Last season, Link moved into a role as the Greyhounds' primary option on the outside, and she had the stats to back it up. In 24 matches, she put away 406 kills, an average of 4.56 per set. Link's 4.56 kills per set were tops in the Patriot League and ninth in the NCAA. She had seven matches with 20 or more kills, 16 with 15-plus, and she has put away 11 or more kills in all but two of the 25 matches Loyola has played this year.
• To start the 2023 season, she has 10 matches with 10 or more kills and one with 20-plus, a season-high 21 coming against Robert Morris. Her 3.29 kills per set lead the Greyhounds and are sixth in the conference

Scoring On Serves

• The Greyhounds have had season highs in service aces in each of their last two home matches, posting 11 against American before serving up 13 against Holy Cross.
• The 13 are the most by a Loyola team since August 2018, and the total is the most by a Patriot League team in a three-set match this season.
• The 24 aces helped Loyola jump to sixth in the conference in aces per set this season (1.61).

Brenner Comes Back

• Sophie Brenner missed the first seven matches of the 2023 season with an injury, but she returned at the St. John's tournament and is averaging 2.06 kills per set in the last 11 matches with a season-high 14 coming against Bucknell.
• Last year, she was one of the Greyhounds' most productive hitters in the latter portion of the season, posting eight or more kills in 10 of the last 11 matches.