The Lady Bisons volleyball team kept their winning streak alive with a big Great American Conference win over Arkansas Tech University on Tuesday night on the road.
Harding defeated the Golden Suns 3-1 giving them a perfect 12-0 record in the GAC.
Arkansas Tech won the first set 25-22, but Harding took the next three sets by six or more points each.
Not only have the Lady Bisons won their last nine matches as they have held on to first place in the GAC standings, but they have also shut out their opponents in seven of those matches.
The last set the Lady Bisons surrendered was four weeks ago against Northwest Missouri State University in a 3-1 win in the Washburn Tournament.
Coming into the Ouachita Baptist University match on Oct. 25, Harding was undefeated and in first place in the GAC, while Ouachita Baptist was tied for the second spot in the conference with Harding’s conference rival Arkansas Tech.
The Lady Bisons grabbed the first set of the match behind five first-set kills from sophomore Marindia Turner.
Until the first set of the Arkansas Tech game on Tuesday, the Lady Bisons had a winning streak of 22 straight set wins.
Coach Meredith Fear and the Lady Bisons found themselves down to the Tigers 20-16 in the set after the third service error for Harding that set.
Turner stepped up with the next six Harding kills to lead the Lady Bisons on an 8-2 run as Harding took the second set by a narrow 25-23 score.
“It was all about us and all in our control; we had three missed serves, we just had to calm down a little bit,” Fear said. “If we controlled what we could, we would win the set, and we did.”
With the win over Ouachita Baptist, Harding stays undefeated in conference games as they are now 12-0 against the rest of the Great American Conference. Six of their seven shutout wins have come in the Rhodes Field House.
“It’s amazing, I love it,” said outside hitter sophomore Liv Savage about the teams undefeated conference record.
Each year’s conference tournament is played in the home gym of the team who wins the regular-season crown.
That means that this year’s GAC tournament is just one Harding victory away from potentially calling the Rhodes Field House its home.
Next on the schedule for the Harding volleyball team is Northwestern Oklahoma State as the Lady Bisons will be going on the road for the second straight match tomorrow to Alva, Okla.
The Rangers’ season has been a struggle as they are just 1-25 for the season and a winless 0-13 in the Great American Conference.
First serve for the game against Norwestern Oklahoma State is set for 2 p.m on Nov. 3.
