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STEPHENVILLE – Tarleton volleyball is headed to San Angelo for the second time this season – this time, however, the TexAnns are gearing up to play the No. 10 Angelo State Rambelles.
 
The last time Tarleton ventured out west was to open the season at the Angelo State Invitational where the TexAnns went 2-2 to begin the regular season.
 
AT A GLANCE
Records: Tarleton State TexAnns, 9-6 (4-1 LSC); Angelo State, 11-5 (4-3 LSC)
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LAST TIME OUT
Tarleton's last game came last Saturday when the TexAnns hosted Eastern New Mexico. Tarleton swept the Zias in their fastest match of the season (1:05:00) on the strength of a season-high hitting percentage of .360. The TexAnns had five players with at least 15 hit attempts hit higher than .300 on the afternoon and Kaitlyn White (12) and Stacie Murrah (11) leading the team in kills.
 
SERIES HISTORY
Angelo State owns the all-time series record 27-11 against Tarleton, dating back to the first meeting in 1978. All 11 of Tarleton's wins against ASU came over a 10-year span – from 1996 to 2006. The Rambelles have won the last eight meetings including a five-set heartbreaker for Tarleton in Wisdom Gym last season. In the 35-year history of the series, Tarleton is 9-13 in sweeps; 5-2 in four-set opportunities; and 2-7 in five-set matches.
 
SCOUTING THE RAMBELLES
Angelo State started the season 11-2 with their only losses coming to the No. 4 and No. 14 teams in the nation. Last Saturday, the Rambelles hosted West Texas A&M and fell in four sets to start their current three-game conference losing streak. They have since dropped matches to Texas Woman's (0-3) and Texas A&M-Commerce (1-3).
 
PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Danielle Barker was the centerpiece of the Tarleton offense once again, recording 85 assists in the last two games against West Texas A&M and Eastern New Mexico. Barker's 85 assists and 12.1 assists/set led the TexAnn offense to a .228 hitting percentage as a team - including a .360 percentage in Saturday's sweep of Eastern New Mexico. These numbers earned Barker the LSC Co-Setter of the Week honors for the second time in her career.
 
IN THE NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT
Emily Klein is averaging 5.41 digs per set, which is good for the 19^th best average in the nation while Danielle Barker's 10.88 assists per set have her No. 21 in the nation.
 
BARKER CONTINUES QUEST TO BE TARLETON'S TOP SETTER
The fourth-year senior setter is still on track to become Tarleton's all-time assist leader, eventually passing her former teammate Jessie Hartman. Danielle Barker currently has 609 assists this season and 2,735 in her career. She is 531 assists away from tying Hartman as Tarleton's all-time leader - which is an average of 40.8 assists per match over the remainder of the season. Barker is also 265 assists away from joining Hartman as the school's only two players to top the 3,000-assist mark in their careers.
 
KLEIN CLOSING IN ON LISTER
With 42 digs last weekend, senior libero Emily Klein now has 1,355 digs in her Tarleton career. She is 108 digs away from tying Sharon Lister for second on the all-time Tarleton digs list. Lister has 1,463 in her career while Klein's former teammate, Shea McBrearty, is the all-time leader with 1,847.
 
MURRAH EYEING 1,000 CAREER KILLS
Senior outside hitter Stacie Murrah has 183 kills this season – and is currently boasting a streak of 11 straight games with double-figure kills – to give her 925 in her Tarleton career. She is now 75 kills away from becoming the seventh TexAnn in school history to accumulate 1,000 career kills.
 
UP NEXT FOR TARLETON
Tarleton will be back on schedule for a three-match week, beginning with a non-conference visit to Dallas Baptist Tuesday night at 7 p.m.