LARAMIE — The Wyoming Cowgirls close their four-match road swing this week with a trip to Reno, Nevada, for a pair of matches against the Wolf Pack. The series begins at 7 p.m. Thursday and concludes at 2 p.m. Saturday. Both start times are Mountain Time.
Wyoming (10-11, 3-7 Mountain West) opened its road trip with two losses last week at Grand Canyon. Despite Saturday’s five-set loss, the Cowgirls recorded several career highs. Paige Lauterwasser finished with a career-best 25 kills, while Sara Quigley recorded a career-high 61 assists. Quigley’s assist total was the most by a Wyoming player in a match since October 2017. Addy Thorington also set a career high with 17 kills, and Emma Winter recorded career bests with three service aces and 17 digs.
Lauterwasser ranks 10th in the Mountain West with 2.85 kills per set and leads Wyoming with 2.76 digs per set. Quigley ranks eighth in the conference with 5.74 assists per set. Rylee Heinz ranks seventh with 0.95 blocks per set and 10th with a .283 hitting percentage. Anna Melgren ranks ninth in the league with 0.30 service aces per set.
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Nevada is led by Paige Thies, who ranks fourth in the Mountain West with 3.28 kills per set and fifth with 3.71 points per set. Thies also ranks seventh in the conference with 0.31 service aces per set. Setter Adriana Dorn ranks fourth with 8.03 assists per set, while libero Masyn Navarro ranks sixth with 3.31 digs per set.
The Wolf Pack are 3-4 in home matches and won three of their first four home contests to open Mountain West play. Nevada ranks near the bottom of the conference in most team statistical categories but is fourth in service aces, averaging 1.43 per set.
