Gettysburg College Athletics

Tonight's Centennial Conference (CC) match marks the 79th all-time meeting between Gettysburg (17-4, 4-1 CC) and McDaniel (10-7, 1-3 CC) in a series that dates back to 1976. The Green Terror leads the all-time series 45-33 but the Bullets have won 10 of the last 14 matchups.

WHEN LAST WE MET: Gettysburg took down McDaniel in three sets, winning one by as many as 17 points last season in Westminster. Alycen Radolovic led the Bullets with 11 kills. Nia Roberts had seven kills for the Green Terror. (Full Recap) (Box Score)

LAST TIME OUT: Gettysburg only dropped one set to Swarthmore, winning three close sets for a key 3-1 win on Saturday. Catherine Holtz and Mary Huegel each tallied nine kills. Huegel also added five blocks while Holtz had three. Sydney Levins was one of three Garnet players with nine kills, adding five digs. (Full Recap) (Box Score)

HEAD OF THE CLASS: Kylie Ulrich and Mary Huegel swept CC Players of the Week honors last week. Ulrich earned the Offensive Player of the Week honors for the second time in three weeks while Huegel snagged the Defensive Player of the Week accolades for the first time this season. Ulrich led the Bullets to a pair of key conference wins on the week, averaging 3.50 kills over eight sets and hit .250. She knocked down 16 kills in a 3-1 win at Franklin & Marshall and 12 in a 3-1 win at Swarthmore. She also had four total blocks on the week. Huegel averaged 1.38 blocks per set, knocking down 11 total blocks in the pair of 3-1 wins. In the win over Franklin & Marshall, she had six block assists to go with five kills. On Saturday, she tallied five blocks to go with nine kills. She hit .273 on the week with 14 kills and three aces.

BLOCK PARTY: The Bullets enter the week ranked seventh in Division III at 2.44 blocks per set. Mary Huegel has recorded four or more blocks in each of the last six matches and has nine matches in 2023 with five or more blocks. She is seventh individually in Division III, averaging 1.24 blocks per set. Olivia Biggs (0.98 bps) and Catherine Holtz (0.91) make it a clean sweep of the top three ranking spots in the conference.

LAST TIME OUT: McDaniel sophomore Kenzie Mitchell totaled a career-high 19 kills but Dickinson pulled out a five-set win in a pivotal Centennial Conference match last Wednesday. Mitchell led the offense while senior Nia Roberts, junior Angalyn Strouse and sophomore Kailey Young had 10 kills apiece. Junior Kathy Taveras led the defense with 21 digs and added three service aces. (Full Recap) (Box Score)

DOING IT WITH DEFENSE: Kathy Tavares leads the McDaniel defense with 255 digs this season. Her 4.05 digs per set is currently eighth in the Centennial Conference. The junior has reached 20 digs in a match five times this season, including two of the last three outings. She registered 23 digs against Ursinus on Oct. 7 before tallying 21 last Wednesday against Dickinson.