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Cyclones Host Aggies On Senior Night
11.24.2011 | Volleyball
AMES, Iowa - No. 14 Iowa State (22-4, 13-2 Big 12) will host Texas A&M (21-7, 10-5) on Saturday night in the final match of the regular season and the final conference match between the programs before the Aggies move to the Southeastern Conference next season. A ceremony honoring Cyclone seniors Carly Jenson, Caitlin Mahoney, Kelsey Petersen and Debbie Stadick will immediately follow the conclusion of the match.
Playing at Texas A&M earlier this season, Jenson led the Cyclones with 17 kills and added 10 digs and three block assists as Iowa State won, 3-1. Middle blocker Jamie Straube also posted double-digit kills with 10 and Tenisha Matlock had seven block assists. Entering Saturday's match, Matlock has collected four or more block assists in Iowa State's last nine matches.
Although the Cyclones were able to quiet Aggie standout Kelsey Black, who is averaging 3.33 kills per set this season, and hold her to only nine kills in the match, Tori Mellinger stepped up for Texas A&M, recording 14 kills and 13 digs in the match. Since losing to Iowa State, Texas A&M has gone 5-2, losing in five sets at Kansas State and falling to No. 5 Texas on Wednesday.
Despite ranking near the bottom of the league in digs and blocks, the Aggies stifled the Cyclone offense in the earlier meeting and Iowa State picked up the win while hitting .206 in the match, the lowest hitting percentage when winning a conference match this season.
Saturday night's match is slated for 6:30 p.m. CDT. On Sunday, ESPNU will announce the NCAA tournament field at 5 p.m.
Cyclone Notebook
- Iowa State will honor seniors Carly Jenson, Caitlin Mahoney, Kelsey Petersen and Debbie Stadick on Saturday night when Iowa State closes out the regular season against Texas A&M at 6:30 p.m. CDT.
- This season's senior class is the winningest class in Iowa State history, winning 75% of its matches.
- Kristen Hahn has 515 digs this season, ranked seventh all-time at Iowa State for digs in a season. Hahn is the first player to enter the top 10 before playing 100 sets in a season (she has played in 93 sets this season).
- After averaging 5.50 digs per set last week against Kansas State and Baylor, Hahn was named the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week for the second-consecutive week. It is the sophomore's fourth defensive honor of the season.
- Setter Alison Landwehr crossed the 2,300 assists mark on Saturday. Landwehr has 2,325 assists in two full seasons as the Iowa State starting setter.
- The Cyclones had 15 blocks against the Bears, the most of the season and the most blocks by the squad since winning in five sets at No. 5 Nebraska in 2009.
- Sophomore middle blocker Tenisha Matlock tied a career-high with eight block assists against Baylor to help the Cyclones to 15 total blocks. Matlock's other eight-block assist match was against Baylor in Ames earlier this season.
- Three of Matlock's block assists came in the crucial fifth-set after Baylor jumped ahead 8-2.
- Iowa State collected a season-high 28 block assists against the Bears, the third time this season the team has recorded more than 20 block assists in a match.
- Baylor also marked the first time since 2007 that four Cyclones have posted five or more blocks in a match. Matlock (8), Jenson (6), Jamie Straube (6) and Petersen (5) each had five blocks against the Bears.
- Jenson's total block assists are a career-high for the outside hitter while Matlock tied a career-high and Straube tied a season-high.
- The five-set win against Baylor was the first five set match for Iowa State since losing to No. 8 Texas at home and the first five-set win for the Cyclones since defeating North Dakota State in non-conference play.
- The win improved the Cyclones to 4-4 this season when dropping the first set.
- The Cyclones have now won the last five meetings with Baylor dating back to 2009.
- Redshirt freshman Hannah Willms came off the bench for a career-high three block assists in the match.
- Matlock extended her blocking streak to 10 matches with at least four blocks on Saturday.
- Straube moved into 10th place all-time at Iowa State with 246 career block assists. The junior is one of two players in the top 10 with fewer than 330 sets played.
- Jenson has recorded 10 or more kills in her last six matches and has double-doubles in the last three. She finished with 17 kills and 15 digs against Baylor.
- Landwehr completed her second-straight double-double in as many matches with 53 assists and 10 digs at Baylor.
- Jamie Straube (.358), Kelsey Petersen (.353) and Matlock (.306) are among the top 10 hitters in the Big 12 during league play. Texas is the only other conference team with three players in the top 10 in hitting.
- Straube is the only Big 12 player this season with four or more aces in two conference matches. The junior leads the conference with 0.38 aces per set this season.
- Caitlin Mahoney is one of two league players to have five aces in a match, reaching the feat in the season-opener against Cincinnati.
- Hahn remains the only Big 12 player to post 35 digs in a match this season (at North Dakota State).
Streaks and Trends
- Iowa State opponents have hit over .300 just 15 times in 218 matches under Johnson-Lynch.
- Iowa State went 12-1 in three set matches in 2010. Under Johnson-Lynch, Iowa State is 87-32 in three set matches.
- This year the Cyclones are 12-3 in three-set matches, losing at No. 15, UNI, No. 10 Nebraska and No. 9 Texas.
- In true Johnson-Lynch fashion, Iowa State has out-dug 22 of its opponents this season.
- Behind Johnson-Lynch's leadership, the Cyclones win 89% (119-15) of their matches when earning the first set victory.
- Iowa State has collected 20 wins in five-consecutive seasons under head coach Johnson-Lynch. The Cyclones have had 11 20+ win seasons since 1982.
- Under Johnson-Lynch, the Cyclones have won at least one match over a top 25 opponent in each of her seven seasons and have defeated at least two top 25 teams in each of the last five seasons.
- This season, six players have led the Cyclones in kills during a match. Only three players ever led the team in kills in 2010.
Scouting Texas A&M
- The Aggies are playing their final Big 12 match on Saturday when they visit Ames.
- Since losing to the Cyclones in College Station, Texas A&M has gone 5-2 and sits on an overall record of 21-7 while posting a 10-5 mark in league play. The squad last lost to Texas on Wednesday night
- The other loss in the last six matches for the Aggies was a five-set heartbreaker at Kansas State.
- Against the Cyclones in College Station, Tori Mellinger led the Aggies with 14 kills and Alisia Kastmo added 11.
- For Iowa State, Carly Jenson recorded a match-high 17 kills and Jamie Straube had 10 kills.
- The Cyclones only hit .206 at Texas A&M but made the Aggies one of many opponents who has hit under .200 against the Cyclones this season. TAMU hit just .165 in the match.
- Senior outside hitter Kelsey Black leads the Aggie offense with 3.33 kills per set this season, the only player on the team averaging more than 3.00 kills per set. Black is second on the team with an average of 3.35 digs per set.
- Libero Megan Pendergast is averaging just 4.00 digs per set this season, and her average drops to 3.95 in league play.
- Middle blockers Kastmo (also an outside hitter) and Lindsey Miller are both hitting over .300 for the season and in conference play for A&M this season, Miller is hitting .349, ranked fifth in the league.
- Miller is the blocking presence on a team not known for its net work. The junior is the only player with an average of 1.00 blocks per set both on the season and in league play, ranked third (behind Tenisha Matlock) with a Big 12 average of 1.25 blocks per set.
- The Aggies are eighth in the Big 12 with an average of 2.03 digs per set.
- Iowa State's league-leading servers, who are averaging 1.36 aces per set this season, will come up against the second-ranked receivers in the league as A&M only allows 0.77 aces against them in league play.
- The Aggies are third in the Big 12 during league play in hitting (.226), opponent hitting (.203), assists (13.15) and kills per set (14.08). They are second only to the Cyclones with 1.22 aces per set.
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