Wake Forest Athletics
Volleyball Wraps Up ACC Season At Home This Weekend
11/12/2003 12:00:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
Nov. 12, 2003
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.-- The Wake Forest volleyball team returns home for its final two ACC matches of the season this weekend. The Demon Deacons will face North Carolina (18-10, 9-5 ACC) on Friday night at 7 p.m. in Reynolds Gymnasium and NC State (7-22, 0-14 ACC) on Saturday at 6 p.m.
The Tar Heels took a 3-1 victory over the Deacs in Chapel Hill on Oct. 16, but Wake Forest rebounded with a 3-0 sweep of the Wolfpack in Raleigh the next night.
In their last match, Wake Forest fell 3-0 to the seventh-ranked Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in Atlanta. Georgia Tech sits atop the ACC with a 13-1 conference mark and took the season series from the Demon Deacons without dropping a single game.
Redshirt sophomore Valerie Rydberg has had a terrific season and is making a strong case for All-ACC recognition. The outside hitter from Lemont, Illinois already ranks fifth on Wake Forest's all-time kills list with 694. Only four Demon Deacons have ever reached the 700-kill plateau, and Rydberg needs just six more kills to become the fifth player on that list. She has a career average of 3.40 kills per game which ranks fourth on Wake Forest's career list. Rydberg's 65 service aces this season also ties her with Trina Maso de Moya at fourth on the single-season list and places her first in the ACC.
Sophomore setter Erin Borhart is the only Demon Deacon to have played in all 93 games this season. Borhart has led the Deacs in assists in each match and already ranks fifth on Wake Forest's all-time list with 1242 assists. She achieved a feat rarely seen in volleyball at Florida State on Oct. 4. Borthart had 14 kills and 13 digs to go along with 37 assists, recording the first triple- double of her career.
Wake Forest has not lost consecutive matches all season. The Demon Deacons are 19-8 overall and 7-0 in matches following a loss in 2003. They will look to continue this trend against North Carolina Friday evening in Winston-Salem.
Senior Jessica Hauff needs just nine kills to reach the 700-mark for her career as a Demon Deacon. Her 691 career kills ranks her sixth all-time at Wake Forest, just behind Rydberg's 694. Hauff has recorded at least eight kills in each of the Deacs' last seven matches. Wake Forest junior Kim Stern also needs just one kill to reach the 600-mark for her career.
