HARROGATE, TENN. – In their second trip to the state of Tennessee in a week, the Bears easily dispatched of Lincoln Memorial 3-0 on Tuesday night. In the victory, senior libero
Rachel Bewick recorded her 1,000th career dig, one match after setting the record for most digs in a game with 42.
INSIDE THE MATCHUP:
Final: Lenoir-Rhyne 3, Lincoln Memorial 0
Records: Lenoir-Rhyne (15-5, 10-2 SAC) | Lincoln Memorial (7-15, 3-9 SAC)
Location: Mary Mars Gym
STATS OF THE MATCH:
- Bewick entered the match with 999 career digs and got her 1,000th in the middle of the first set. The conference leader in digs/set would finish with 18 in the three-set win and her 5.72 digs/set rank ahead of Ully Martins' 5.49. Bewick has 20 fewer total digs than Martins despite playing five less matches.
- Ashley Hawkins led the Bears with 12 kills and added seven digs. Hawkins has recorded double-digit kills in four straight.
- Braelyn Faust had nine kills and hit a team-high .538. Faust added five blocks on the night and had six kills on six attempts in the first set-and-a-half.
- Colette Romp had seven kills and added four blocks and a pair of digs and Taylor Prall finished with seven kills and 12 digs.
- Mackenzie Hulsey recorded 23 assists and had nine digs while Helen Hamilton dished out 10 assists.
- LR hit .237 as a team and held Lincoln Memorial to .068 hitting, the third-worst hitting percentage by an LR opponent this season.
BEYOND THE BOXSCORE:
- This is the fastest a Lenoir-Rhyne team has reached 10 wins in conference (in 12 matches) since 2006 when they started 10-1 in league play.
- The Bears recorded 17 kills in the third set, the third-most in a single set this season.
- This is LRs first win at Lincoln Memorial since 2017.
- The Bears are now 19-13 all-time against LMU but just 7-9 in Harrogate.
- Out of the 15 wins by LR this season, only four have come in three sets.
- This wraps up a 10-game stretch away from home for the Bears. LR went 7-3 in that span.
UP NEXT: LR will return home for the first time since Oct. 2 when they host Catawba on Friday at 5 p.m.