UVU WVB: Wolverine Spikers to Play at SUU Tuesday Night Add Comment    Sep 20, 2010

OREM, Utah -- The Utah Valley University women's volleyball team (8-6) will play its lone match of the week Tuesday at 7 p.m., in Cedar City, when the Wolverines take on in-state rival Southern Utah.

UVU has won eight of its last 10 matches on the season and will enter Tuesday's match looking to go 3-0 all-time against SUU after the Wolverines swept the season series versus the T-Birds last year.

Offensively the Wolverines were led last week by senior Kayli Doxey and junior Chelsey Heaps as the duo were named to the Utah State Invitational All-Tournament Team. Doxey led UVU with 63 kills last week and averaged 4.20 kills per set, while Heaps put up 41 kills (2.73 k/s).

Southern Utah will enter Tuesday's match with a 5-6 overall record and a 3-1 clip so far in The Summit League. SUU has also won its last three matches after recently defeating South Dakota State, Centenary and Oral Roberts.

The T-Birds are led offensively by Analaine Pelaez who has 160 total kills on the year and is averaging 4.21 kills per set. Jazmine Ma'afala is second on the squad in kills with 83 and holds an average of 2.18 kills per set. Setter Brittney Clark is also having a big season for SUU so far as she has 398 assists and averages 10.4 assists per set.

UVU and SUU will meet-up again this season on Oct. 19, in Orem. Before then though, the Wolverines will next return to Great West Conference action and play at South Dakota and North Dakota on Sept. 30 and Oct. 2 respectively.

-Utah College Sports News staff and wire reports

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