SALT LAKE CITY - Following a five-match home stand, Westminster volleyball (3-9, 1-3 RMAC) gets set to embark on its first conference road trip of the fall on a trip to Denver to take on Colorado Christian (5-7, 2-2 RMAC) on Friday at 7 p.m., followed by a test against second-ranked MSU Denver (10-2, 4-0 RMAC) on Saturday at 3 p.m.

About the Griffins:
- Westminster will hope to shake off a 3-1 loss to NNU on Tuesday night.  In a match that only saw four sets, Westminster tallied is second-highest number of kills as a team so far this season (61) while hitting .222 collectively on Tuesday night.
- Setter, Bri Mortensen, dished out 45 assists in Tuesday's match vs. NNU and is averaging 7.31 assists/set.
- Griffins' libero, Alanna Lee, has helped keep Westminster in sets all season with 3.74 digs/set.
- Lydia Parkinson (Miller) leads the team with 2.42 kills/set and has added 12 service aces.  She has also contributed 1.88 digs/set with 14 blocks on the year.
- Katie Jacox has been an all-around asset for the Griffins this season and is averaging 2.38 digs/set, 1.46 kills/set, and 1.96 assists/set.  Jacox is tied for second on the team with 22 blocks and has tallied a team-high 17 service aces.
- Middle blocker, Malinda Messner, leads Westminster with 31 total blocks and fellow-freshman Avery Alger leads the team with a .341 hitting percentage while tallying 55 kills (1.53 k/s) so far this season.

About the Cougars:
- CCU began conference play with back-to-back 1-1 weekends.  The Cougars begin the week after a 1-1 road weekend last week at CSU Pueblo and UCCS.  CCU lost, 3-0, to CSU Pueblo but rebounded with a 3-2 win vs. UCCS.
- The Cougars rank sixth in the RMAC at .198 hitting as a team and tied for sixth at 2.02 blocks/set.
- Colorado Christian opened the season with a 2-2 weekend at the Oredigger Classic hosted by Colorado School of Mines. CCU defeated Midwestern State and Seattle Pacific on day one, but dropped its next two to a pair of Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference teams, SMSU and Sioux Falls, on day two.
- In their second weekend of non-conference matches, the Cougars went 1-3 at the Wisconsin Parkside Hampton Inn Invitational.
- Westminster is 1-5 all-time against CCU after notching first-ever win over the Cougars in the most recent matchup back in March in four sets.

About the Roadrunners:
- No. 2 MSU Denver owns a 4-0 conference record heading into the weekend and owns a 4-1 record over AVCA Top-25 teams so far this season including a 3-0 win over top-ranked, Concordia-St. Paul at the Colorado Premier Challenge.
- The Roadrunners have dropped just three sets in their four ranked wins and rank second in the RMAC in hitting percentage (.250), assists (13.3), and kills (14.11).
- Rylee Hladky ranks second in the RMAC in points with 163 kills, 21 service aces and 18 total blocks.
- The Roadrunners took out UCCS in straight sets followed by a win over CSU Pueblo in five last weekend, and will host Colorado Mesa this Friday night at 7 p.m. to begin the weekend.
- The Griffins are 0-7 all-time against MSU Denver.

Up Next:
Westminster will be back on the road next weekend to take on Western Colorado and Fort Lewis College before returning home the following week to begin a three-match home stand.

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