By OAKLEE FIELDER, Sports Editor
The NWOSU Ranger volleyball team will head to the GAC Championship on Thursday in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
The Rangers are seeded in seventh. They will play against Harding University, who is seeded in second. The Rangers have a 7-9 conference record this season, losing the last four games they played.
This season, they played Harding once on Oct 18 they were away. They lost 3-1, winning the second set by two points.
Mariela Jimenez led the Rangers in scoring that game with 18.5, Erika Asencio Soriano was a close second with 15 points.
This year is a slight improvement from the 2023 season. They have one more win and are in the GAC Championship tournament.
Last year they did not make the tournament and ended with a 6-10 conference record.
Soriano leads the Ranger’s in points this season with 363.5 points. Mariela Jimenez is second with 303.5 and Ece Ozdemir is third with 241 points. Hennesys Lalane leads the team in assists with 592. Mikayla
White is second with 253 and Brianda Diaz in third with 87.
The NWOSU volleyball team has a lot of work to do if they are going to beat Harding University and move on in the tournament.
