ARLINGTON, TEXAS  --- The UT Arlington volleyball team (17-7, 6-5 WAC) will look to capitalize on the momentum of Saturday's big road win over UTRGV in a 6 p.m. Monday night matchup against Stephen F. Austin (22-3, 11-0 WAC) inside the College Park Center.
 
As part of the night's festivities, the athletic department will host trick-or-treating in the CPC's main concourse before the game, and there will be pumpkin smashing fun available post game.
 
During the match, Alli Wells will continue her chase for 2,000 career digs as the graduate libero sits just six shy of the milestone. On top of that, she needs only 40 more to surpass Alicia Shaffer (2,033, 2008-11) for the program's all-time record. On top of that, she is just two away from achieving 100 career matches with double-digit digs, as well as one shy of 70 career outings with at least 15.
 

UT ARLINGTON VOLLEYBALL INFORMATION
Match 25	UT Arlington (17-7, 6-5 WAC) vs Stephen F. Austin (22-3, 11-0 WAC)
Date | Time	Monday, Oct. 30 | 6 PM
Location	College Park Center (CPC) | Arlington, Texas
Live Stats	Stat Broadcast
Streaming	ESPN+ ($)
Tickets	UTAtickets.com
Game Notes	UT Arlington (PDF) | SFA (PDF)

THE TERMINATOR
Brianna Ford had her streak of consecutive double-doubles snapped at six in the win over UTRGV, but the senior outside hitter continued her menacing domination over the conference with a match-high 18 kills, a .333 hitting percentage, eight digs and five blocks. Over the past seven matches, she is hitting .288 while averaging 19.1 kills, 12.3 digs, 4.4 blocks, 1.4 aces and 1.3 assists per match.
 

Date	Opponent	Kills	Pct.	Digs	Blocks	Assists	Aces
10/5/23	GCU	15	.297	11	4	1	1
10/7/23	CBU	25	.561	11	3	-	2
10/12/23	ACU	23	.347	11	5	3	3
10/14/23	Tarleton	19	.196	21	4	3	-
10/19/23	Southern Utah	17	.200	11	6	-	2
10/21/23	Utah Tech	17	.132	13	4	1	2
10/28/23	UTRGV	18	.333	8	5	1	-

 
With her recent play, Ford has also elevated herself into a spot among the top 15 attackers in program history. The Amarillo native has 1,157 career kills, which puts her in 14th place on the program's all-time list as she surpassed Shari Parks (1,148, 1984-87) on Saturday. Furthermore, her 38 career double-doubles - including 12 this year - is also 15th-most in program history since 1987, just behind Chris Rudiger, who produced 39 double-doubles in the late 80s.

GOING THE DISTANCE
The Mavs went five sets in four of the past five matches, splitting them at 2-2. Overall, UTA is 3-3 this season and 29-24 in the J.T. Wenger era in five-set matches.

SERIES HISTORY
Among current WAC teams, UTA hasn't faced any team more than Stephen F. Austin. In 62 all-time meetings, the Mavs hold a 31-30-1 record. SFA has won four of the past seven matchups, including a three-set win in Nacogdoches in September. The Mavs are 15-10 all-time at home in the series.
 
BEAST IN THE MIDDLE
After missing most of non-conference play due to an injury, senior middle blocker Paige Reagor is rounding into form, totaling 72 kills at a .378 clip along with 31 blocks over the past five matches. She has at least 10 kills and five blocks in four of those outings and recorded a season-best 22 terminations against Southern Utah. She produced an incredible 13 kills with zero errors and a .684 hitting percentage in Saturday's win over UTRGV.
 
Reagor even became the first UTA volleyball player to record a double-double in kills and blocks on Oct. 14 against Tarleton since Briana Sharatt totaled 10 kills and 11 blocks against Texas Southern on Sept. 12, 2014. In fact, Reagor produced just the 20th kill-block double-double in the program's history since 1987, and she's just the 12th player since then to record at least one.

Double-doubles in kills and blocks by UTA since 1987
Jackie Bennett – 19 kills, 10 blocks vs. Texas Tech (9/25/87)
Jackie Bennett – 16 kills, 12 blocks vs. Sam Houston (10/2/87)
Jackie Bennett - 22 kills, 21 digs, 11 blocks vs. Arizona (11/26/88)
Yvette Wingate - 12 kills, 10 blocks vs Stephen F. Austin (10/15/93)
Lyndy Stevens - 11 kills, 10 blocks vs Oral Roberts (9/23/94)
Rhonda Rust - 15 kills, 10 blocks vs Lamar (10/30/98)
Melissa Robinett - 11 kills, 10 digs, 11 blocks vs Lamar (9/19/03)
Melissa Robinett - 19 kills, 10 blocks vs Southeastern La. (10/31/03)
Caley Smith - 16 kills, 18 digs, 10 blocks vs Northwestern State (9/17/04)
Caley Smith - 12 kills, 13 digs, 10 blocks vs McNeese (9/24/04)
Melissa Marek - 12 kills, 11 blocks vs Little Rock (9/10/05)
Christy Driscoll - 10 kills, 10 blocks vs Texas State (10/11/08)
Christy Driscoll - 10 kills, 10 blocks vs Texas A&M Corpus Christi (11/14/08)
Emily Shearin - 12 kills, 10 blocks vs North Texas (9/18/10)
Charmaine Whitmore - 11 kills, 13 blocks vs Arkansas State (10/12/13)
Charmaine Whitmore - 10 kills, 11 blocks vs Georgia State (11/1/13)
Charmaine Whitmore - 13 kills, 10 blocks at Troy (11/9/13)
Charmaine Whitmore - 13 kills, 12 blocks (11/22/13)
Briana Sharratt - 10 kills, 11 blocks vs Texas Southern (9/12/14)
Paige Reagor - 13 kills, 10 blocks vs Tarleton (10/14/23)
 
DISHING IT OUT
Senior setter Mollie Blank has turned it up a notch over the past six outings, recording at least 40 assists in five of those with at least 33 in each one. Against Utah Tech this last Saturday, the Mansfield, Texas native notched 50 assists for the second time this year and the third time in her career. She then added 49 more over the weekend against UTRGV. On top of that, she sits 10th in program history in total assists with 2,058.
 
ACE OF HER TRADE
Alyssa Duran produced a UTA season-best five aces against UTRGV, becoming the first Mav since Alli Wells on Sept. 9, 2022 against South Florida to produce that many in a match. She also has nine matches with double-digit digs this year, including three of the past five and five of the past nine.
 
MAV BITES

• UTA hit .380 in the win over UTRGV, which was the team's third-highest hitting percentage of the season. In doing so, they improved to 14-1 this year when hitting at least .200, including 8-0 when hitting at least .300.
• Redshirt freshman Sophie Ocampo jumped into the starting lineup against Utah Tech and matched her season-high with 11 kills while adding five digs. It was her third double-digit termination performance of the campaign. She has at least five kills in her past four outings and recorded season-bests in digs (7) and blocks (7) in the win over Tarleton on Oct. 14.
• Sophomore setter Sophie Skinner led the Mavs with three aces - while adding four digs - in the win over Southern Utah. She has 10 outings this year with at least 10 assists, as well.
   

 
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