Boston College volleyball is headed to Memphis this weekend for its first road trip of the season, and the Carrie Yerty Classic gives the Eagles a quick two-game test away from home.
BC opens the event against host Memphis on Friday, Sept. 11, at 7 p.m., then wraps the weekend against Alcorn State on Saturday, Sept. 12, at 1 p.m.
The matchup with Memphis brings a familiar but distant name back onto the schedule. The teams have met only once before, when the Tigers beat Boston College 3-1 on Sept.
21, 2002. That makes Friday’s match the second meeting in program history and the first between the teams in nearly 24 years.
Memphis enters at 1-4, with its lone win coming at the Sawyer Camillo Memorial Classic. The Tigers started the season with three losses in Nashville, then dropped a four-set match to Southeastern Louisiana on Friday before rebounding with a five-set win over host Louisiana on Saturday.
Saturday’s opponent will be a first for Boston College. Alcorn State and BC have never played each other, so the Eagles will help start a new series when they close out the tournament.
The Braves are still searching for their first win, sitting at 0-6. They went 0-3 at the New Orleans/Nicholls Challenge, including a five-set match against Nicholls, then lost in five sets to Dillard and in four to Nicholls at home last week.
Their most recent result was a three-set loss to Louisiana Tech.
Boston College also arrives in Memphis with some early-season numbers that stand out across the ACC. Through 19 sets, the Eagles lead the conference in opponent kills at 10.42 per set. They also rank fifth in hitting percentage at .287 and eighth in blocks at 2.53 per set.
A few Eagles are showing up in the league rankings, too. Audrey Ross is second in the ACC in kills per set at 4.63 and points per set at 5.18.
Reese Dunkle ranks fifth in hitting percentage at .407. Sofija Marjanovic is fifth in the conference with 0.56 service aces per set, while Brooklyn Yelland is eighth at 0.47.
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