COMMERCE – The A&M-Commerce Lions wrap up the regular season on Tuesday and Wednesday, hosting Texas Woman's for a key LSC Central Division series.
 
WHO: Texas Woman's at A&M-Commerce
WHERE: Commerce | The Field House
WHEN: 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 16 and Wednesday, March 17
RECORDS: A&M-Commerce is 4-6 on the season, while Texas Woman's is 3-7
TELEVISION/LIVE VIDEO: LSC Digital Network
LIVE STATS: http://statbroadcast.com/events/statmonitr.php?gid=tame
 
What's at stake:
This is the final series of the season for both teams, who are battling for the second seed out of the LSC Central Division for next week's LSC Tournament. Here are the seeding scenarios for the division:
 
• The Lions clinched an LSC Tournament berth by virtue of the sweep of DBU.
• Should the Lions win at least one of the two matches against Texas Woman's next week, they will be the second seed out of the Central Division.
• Should the Lions sweep TWU, DBU would be the third seed, as DBU won three of four against TWU in the season.
• TWU would need to sweep the Lions to take the second seed.
 

Rk	School	Rec	THIS SEED
1	UT Tyler ^	12-0	Hosts W2 (WT)/S3 (TAMIU)
2	A&M-Commerce	4-6	Plays N3 at S1 (TAMUK)
3	Texas Woman's	3-7	Plays N2 at W1 (ASU)
4	DBU	3-9	Does Not Qualify

 
 
On the Lions:
A&M-Commerce is led by 11th-year head coach Craig Case, who is the winningest coach in program history. His record at A&M-Commerce stands at 188-133.
 
The Lions snapped a six-match losing streak with last week's sweep of DBU. A&M-Commerce ranks 13th in the conference in hitting percentage (.145) and counters that with a ranking of eighth in the LSC in hitting defense (.165).
 
Taryn Cast (Peaster) ranks 12th in the league with a .252 hitting percentage. Celeste Vela (Guadalajara, Mexico) is sixth in the conference with 6.48 assists per set. Defensively, Riley Davidson (Commerce) is fifth in the league with 4.92 digs per set.          
 
Other top threats are Sydney Andersen (Placentia, Calif.) with 2.38 kills per set, Maiya Dickie (Huntsville) with 2.19 kills per set, and Maddy Rashford (Placentia, Calif.) with 2.35 kills per set. Lyric Hebert (Arvada, Colo.) also adds 3.23 digs per set. Dickie and Cast are the top blockers.
  
On the opponent…
TWU ranks 11th in the league in hitting percentage with a .153 hitting percentage, but ranks last in the league in hitting defense, allowing a .206 hitting percentage to opponents. Outside of sweeping the Lions in Denton, the Pioneers have won only one match and are on a four-match losing streak.
 
Trixie Oche ranks 19th in the league in hitting with a .236 percentage and sixth in the conference with 1.03 blocks per set. Kaia Saylor leads the Pioneers with 3.28 kills per set and top setter Bailey Wozniak has not played since the first TAMUC series.
 
On the series history…
The Lions and Pioneers are meeting for the 90th and 91st times in the longest series in program history with the Lions holding a 48-41 all-time record. The Pioneers have won three straight.
 
The Lions are 24-15 all-time in the Field House against the Pioneers, and have not lost a regular season match at home to TWU since 2015.