Volleyball

ASC Volleyball Players of the Week (8) | Lawson, Hancock

AMERICAN SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
Games: October 17; Oct. 20-11, 2023
 
OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK – Reina Lawson S, Jr., LeTourneau
LeTourneau junior setter Reina Lawson (Jarrell, Texas) averaged 10.09 assists with 3.00 digs per set and had two double-doubles in a 2-1 week for the YellowJackets. She had a career-high 50 assists with 14  digs, two aces, and two blocks in a four-set win over Howard Payne on Saturday. Lawson opened the week with 31 assists, two aces, and two blocks in a four-set loss to ETBU. She also had 30 assists, six digs, and three aces in a sweep of Sul Ross State.
 
DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK – Anita Hancock, MB, Fr., East Texas Baptist  
East Texas Baptist freshman middle blocker Anita Hancock (Celina, Texas) had a great defensive two matches with 14 total blocks. In the ASC win over LeTourneau, she collected one solo and seven assisted
blocks for eight blocks with seven kills and two digs. In the regional win over Southwestern, she posted six assisted blocks with eight kills and three service aces and two digs. She averaged 1.56 blocks per set.
OTHER OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCES
Offensive
East Texas Baptist sophomore outside hitter Graycee Mosley (Troy, Texas) recorded two more double-doubles in a rival ASC win over LeTourneau and a regional, 5-set victory over Southwestern. She averaged 5.22 kills and 4.00 digs per set. She posted 25 kills and 18 digs vs. LETU with a .281 hitting percentage with five assists. She then added 22 kills with 18 digs vs. Southwestern. Overall, she hit .237 with a .950 receiving percentage and three total blocks.
 
UT Dallas senior outside hitter Erin Rogers (League City, Texas) hit .305 with 4.27 kills per set as the Comets went 2-1 on the week. She started the week with a career-high 19 kills and hitting .406 in a three-set loss at Austin. Rogers then recorded 11 kills and hit .424 in a four-set conference win against Howard Payne, followed by 11 kills in another four-set victory over Sul Ross State. Rogers also came up with 12 digs, two aces and four blocks.
 
Mary Hardin-Baylor senior outside hitter Hannah Frasca (Spring, Texas) reached 1,000 kills as a Crusader over the weekend with 18 kills in a pair of three-set matches. She hit eight kills at McMurry on 21 attacks and added 10 kills with no attack errors on 43 attempts at Hardin-Simmons. Frasca totaled 10.5 points in both matches, adding 25 digs.
 
Hardin-Simmons sophomore middle blocker Gabby Jones (Waco, Texas) led the Cowgirls on the offensive side with 40 kills while hitting .561 this week. She had a career-high 20 kills against Concordia and had 16 against Howard Payne as well. She also led HSU with five service aces.
 
Sul Ross State sophomore outside hitter Cassandra Espinoza (El Paso, Texas) tallied 25 kills this past week in matches against LeTourneau and UT Dallas. She had 15 kills and 11 digs for a double-double against the Comets, which was her fourth of the season.
 
McMurry junior setter Ashlyn Quillan (Van Alstyne, Texas) combined for 17 assists in a pair of matches last week. She had 10 in the win over Concordia Texas, the team's first conference win of the season, and put her past 1000 career assists.
 
Defensive
LeTourneau senior middle blocker Allison Smith (San Antonio, Texas) tallied 1.55 blocks per set and had 1.91 kills per set, hitting .364, in a 2-1 week for the YellowJackets. She had a season-high eight blocks (one solo, seven assisted) with seven kills and a .375 hitting percentage in a four-set loss to ETBU. Smith then had three blocks and eight kills (.667 hitting percentage) in a sweep of Sul Ross. In a win over Howard Payne, she totaled six blocks and six kills.
 
McMurry freshman setter/defensive specialist Erin Fallon (Boerne, Texas) totaled 32 assists and 16 digs to help the War Hawks go 1-1 last week in conference play. This included 19 assists and 11 digs for a double-double in the team's first ASC win of the year.  
 
UT Dallas sophomore middle blocker Lauren Johnson (Waco, Texas) averaged 1.18 blocks per set while hitting .355 with 2.82 kills as the Comets went 2-1 on the year. She had three blocks, two solo, in a three-set loss at Austin on Tuesday, then came up with five blocks each in wins over Howard Payne and Sul Ross State. Johnson also had 13 and 14 kills, respectively, against the Lady Jackets and Lobos.
 
Hardin-Simmons freshman defensive specialist/libero Kat Martinez (Abilene, Texas) led the Cowgirls with 76 digs on the week. She had a career-high in digs with 29 against Concordia then had 28 against Mary Hardin-Baylor. She also had 10 assists and two service aces.