{"id":6497,"date":"2016-11-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T15:22:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T06:00:00","slug":"volleyball-team-tied-for-first-in-great-american-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/2016\/11\/18\/volleyball-team-tied-for-first-in-great-american-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Volleyball Team Tied for First in Great American Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The women&#8217;s volleyball team is tied for first place against Oklahoma Baptist in the Great American conference after a 3-0 win against Henderson State on November 3. The team currently has a seven-win streak, including their first away win at Southern Arkansas University on Nov. 1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Southern Arkansas game was tough for us because it was about us coming together and showing everyone that we could still be a good team on the road and doing what we&#8217;ve been doing at home in someone else&#8217;s gym,&#8221; said sophomore defensive specialist, Taylor Lake.<\/p>\n<p>The Bisons won the game against Southern Arkansas in three sets (27-25, 25-9, 25-20) with 35 kills, hit .220 and had 10 team blocks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;SAU was the first time we had played away in a while and so we really wanted to prove that we weren&#8217;t just winning because we were home, it was because we&#8217;re playing well,&#8221; said sophomore outside hitter, Madison Poen.<\/p>\n<p>Zoe HardinandAlex Nolanled Harding with eight kills. Hardin, who leads the GAC in blocks had seven while Nolan and Taylor Lake had 16 digs each.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are always happy to get on the bus with a 3-0 win on a road trip. We were a little more streaky tonight than I would like but we did a good job scoring when necessary. Our defense did a great job tonight,&#8221; said coach, Meredith Fear in an interview with Harding Athletics.<\/p>\n<p>The win against Henderson State marked Harding&#8217;s 20<sup>th<\/sup> win of the season (25-20, 25-21, 25-20). Harding had 43 kills in the match and hit .307 on 101 attempts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Especially these past couple of games we&#8217;re really found our groove, so we&#8217;ve been working really well together. We were disappointed with last season, so this season we came in ready to win,&#8221; said Poen.<\/p>\n<p>Harding was led byHardinandEmily Claytonwho each had 10 kills for the Lady Bisons. Hardin hit .562 and added seven blocks. She had 10 against Henderson State earlier this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Harding defense was led by Lakewho had 13 digs.Nolanadded 11 and also had three blocks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve hit a point in the season where we&#8217;re really connecting as a team and really understand how the people next to us play. It was a matter of us coming together as a team and deciding we were going to do our best,&#8221; said Lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The women&#8217;s volleyball team is tied for first place against Oklahoma Baptist in the Great American conference after a 3-0 win against Henderson State on November 3. The team currently&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14929,"featured_media":8040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[268],"class_list":["post-6497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-hurricane-florence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}