AUSTIN, Texas (November 4, 2017) – Lubbock Christian University plays their final regular season match and they hope it won't be their last match of the season, as they head to St. Edward's University for a noon opening serve. With a win, LCU can claim a Heartland Conference Tournament berth and secure the No.3 seed in the tournament. A loss Saturday does not eliminate the Lady Chaps for a postseason tournament, but they would have to rely on the possibility of a tiebreaker-scenario, along with awaiting the outcome of remaining games, as LCU is not the only team playing their final regular season match Saturday due to the odd number of conference members. LCU, 9-16 overall, enters the match in third place in the conference with a 6-5 conference record. St. Edwards is in fourth place with a 5-5 record and Dallas Baptist is 5-6 in the Heartland. Each conference team plays 12 conference matches and DBU and SEU play each other for their final match of the season. Newman is also a longshot that could join the fray, as they are 4-6 with two conference matches remaining.  
  
ST. EDWARD'S (15-9, 5-5) | Saturday, Nov. 4 | Noon
Recreation & Convocation Center (Austin, Texas)
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• LCU has won 11 of the prior 12 meetings over SEU and has a 11-5 all-time advantage in the series, which dates back to the 1989 season. The teams met three times last season, each winning at home before LCU defeated SEU 3-1 on Nov. 18, 2016 at the Heartland Conference Tournament in Fort Smith, Ark. LCU defeated SEU 3-0 in the prior meeting this season (Oct. 5).
• The Hilltoppers are preseason picked third in the Heartland Conference. They are 5-5 in the conference and looking to end a two-match home losing streak. They are currently in fourth place in the conference. 
• Mikayla Parker is a Heartland Conference Preseason Team member. The middle blocker ranks 45^th nationally in blocks (99) and 34^th in blocks per set (1.18).
• St. Edward's is 13^th in digs per set (19.4) and 39^th in blocks per set with a conference leading mark of 2.17. Individually, Morgan Beckham is 13^th nationally in digs per set with an average of 5.99 per set.
• SEU has two matches remaining at home, where they are 6-3 this season.
 
GAME NOTES
• LCU has only won one Heartland Conference road match this season (Sept. 30 at Texas A&M International). LCU is 2-7 in road matches this season and have dropped their last three road matches.
• The Lady Chaps rank 64^th in digs per set (17.9), with Kelsie French ranking 12^th individually with 6.2 digs per set. She is 18th nationally in total digs with 578.
• French is coming off a season high 37-dig performance Thursday at Dallas Baptist, which improved her career numbers to 1,904 digs with LCU. She passed Nikki Ralston (1,886) and moved into fifth all-time on LCU's all-time career digs list. She is 58 digs away from passing Stacy Simpson (1,961) and moving into fourth place.
• LCU had a couple streaks snapped in their 3-1 loss Thursday at Dallas Baptist.  The loss was their first of the season when leading the opposition in kills (7-1) and their first loss of the season when winning the opening set (6-1).
• Lauren Zoller ranks third in the Heartland Conference in attacks per set (9.4) and fifth in total attacks (864).
• Camille Porco is coming off a career high 12 kill performance Thursday, jumping past her prior high of 11 on Oct. 19 against Newman.