FAIRBANKS – The Alaska Nanooks welcome Northwest Nazarene and #25-ranked Central Washington on Thursday, Oct. 7 and Saturday, Oct. 9. The Nanooks welcome fans to come out and support the team, but remind all that masks are required for all in attendance.
Follow Along
All of the action for this weekend's games will be brought to you live for free on the Alaska Nanooks Athletics YouTube page. You can click
HERE, or click the link in the table above. Live stats will also be provided on the Alaska Nanooks Sidearm Live Stats link. Click
HERE for stats, or follow the link above.
Dig Pink – Thursday
Wear your pink out to the annual Dig Pink game against Northwest Nazarene on Thursday, Oct. 7! We'll all be decked out in pink in support of the fight against breast cancer.
Cashless Ticketing
Get all your tickets prior to the gate or be ready to buy with card as the Nanooks introduce their newest cashless ticketing system! We've partnered with HomeTown Ticketing to bring all ticketing options to you at home and on your mobile devices!
Last Time Out
The Nanooks are coming off of a tough road trip that ended in two Nanook losses. They dropped game one at Simon Fraser on Thursday, Sept. 30 in four sets.
Karli Nielson led the way for the Nanooks with 13 kills.
Rilee White and
AveRee Reynolds joined her in double-digits with 11 and 10 kills, each.
Cate Whiting had herself another double-double with 32 assists and 16 digs, both team-highs.
Dani Dodge also added a double-double with 10 assists and 14 digs.
On Saturday, Oct. 2, the Nanooks traveled to Bellingham, Wash. to face-off with the #20 Western Washington Vikings at Carver Gymnasium. They battled, but fell to the Viks in five-sets, their best game against WWU in over a decade. For the first time in 17 meetings, the 'Nooks grabbed a set from Western, pushing them to five before falling 13-15 in the deciding fifth-set.
Weekly Leaders
Karli Nielson led the Nanooks with three kills per set in the two matches played last week. She began with 13 at SFU, adding six digs and two blocks while adding another 14 kills, three digs and two blocks at Western Washington. She is averaging 2.56 kills per set on the season so far. Senior
Cate Whiting had herself quite a trip, recording two double-doubles, averaging 9.22 assists and 4.56 digs per set. She finished with 32 assists, 16 digs and three kills at SFU before finishing the WWU game with 51 assists, 25 digs and four kills. Whiting is fourth in the GNAC with 9.51 assists per set and is fourth in the NCAA DII with 647 total assists.
Senior
AveRee Reynolds stacked up well against the SFU and WWU defenses as the OH averaged 2.78 kills per set and had 10 blocks in the two matches. At SFU, she finished with 10 kills and seven total blocks. At WWU she had a team-high 15 kills and three blocks. She is averaging 2.73 kills and 0.99 blocks per set.
Team Totals
Alaska is averaging 12.51 kills per set and is third in the GNAC with 16.54 digs per set. They also lead the GNAC and are fourth in the NCAA DII with 2.60 blocks per set and lead the nation in total blocks, tallying 176.5. We also rank fifth in Division II with 851 team kills and sixth in team assists, posting 786.
Nationwide Stats
Joining
Cate Whiting in the nationwide stat picture is
Emily Moorhead,
Sophie Schilling,
AveRee Reynolds and
Dani Dodge.
Moorhead comes in at 18
th in NCAA DII with 1.23 blocks per set. Also posting 75 total blocks, good for sixth in the nation. Just behind her in seventh is
Sophie Schilling with 72 total blocks. Reynolds checks in with 66 of her own, making her ninth in the nation. Finally,
Dani Dodge remains in the hunt for the top dig-collector. She is currently 21
st in the nation with 299 total digs.
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