MAGNOLIA, Ark. – The Southern Arkansas Lady Mulerider Volleyball team picked up their seventh win of the 2016 season and fifth in straight sets by downing Central Baptist (25-9,25-9,25-15) on Tuesday night in a non-league contest inside the W.T. Watson Center.
 
RECORDS
 
Southern Arkansas (7-13)
Central Baptist (3-13)
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
 

• Southern Arkansas cruised in the victory courtesy of an attack percentage of .376 (42-7-93).
• The Lady Muleriders scored the first nine points of the opening set and constructed a lead of 20-4 behind a powerful hitting percentage of .478 (13-2-23).
• It was much of the same for Southern Arkansas in the second set as the club opened up scoring on an 8-2 run that soon blossomed into a 20-7 lead as SAU posted consecutive sets with a swing clip of .400 or better with a .412 (15-1-34) hit percentage.
• Central Baptist claimed their only lead of the contest by scoring the first point of the third set, before Southern Arkansas used a 7-1 run midway through the frame to distance themselves and pull away to take the set and the match.

 
FOR SOUTHERN ARKANSAS
 

• Middle Hitters Brittany Lampkin and Kaitlyn Reiner led Southern Arkansas with eight kills apiece, while junior Alli O'Banion chipped in with five kills. Reiner led SAU with 10.0 points.
• Eleven Lady Muleriders recorded a kill in Tuesday night's win.
• Senior Paige Mays recorded her 19^th game this campaign with at least 10 or more digs as she produced a game-high dozen. Hannah Rice chipped in with eight digs and freshman Whitney Brown added five.
• Freshman setter Katy Cooper found herself in every major stat category as she collected a game-high 28 assists, while also adding four digs, a pair of kills, one block assist and one service ace.
• In her collegiate debut, freshman Lauren Strader registered four kills in seven total attempts for an attack clip of .571, while adding a dig and an assist.

 
FOR THE OPPOSITION
 

• The Mustangs attacked at -.024 with their highest set percentage being .088 in the final frame.
• Gloria Bell, Cameron Roberts and Kelsy Knox combined for a dozen kills led by Bell's five. Bell also contributed with six digs.
• Hope Johnson led the Mustangs in assists with nine, while Kobie Hartman chipped in with five.
• Payton Cope paced CBC with 10 digs and Lenee Gibson added nine.

 
OF NOTE
 

• Southern Arkansas improves to 21-0 against non-NCAA opponents since the program became a charter member of the Great American Conference in 2011.
• It was the third match of the season and second in a row that Southern Arkansas posted an attack percentage of .300 or better with Tuesday's output of .376 becoming a season-high.
• The last time SAU recorded back-to-back games with a .300 attack percentage or better was on October 23 and October 25 of 2014 when the Lady Muleriders earned a pair of 3-0 victories over Texas College (.391) and Grambling State (.350) respectively.

 
UP NEXT
 

• The Lady Muleriders hit the road for a tough Great American Conference slate beginning with a 7 p.m. first-serve against Oklahoma Baptist in Shawnee, Oklahoma, on Thursday, October 13, before clashing with Southern Nazarene on Friday, October 14, at 2 p.m. in Bethany, Oklahoma.
• Live stats for that matchup are available here: http://www.sidearmstats.com/saumag/wvball/.
• Live video will also be available and can be found here: http://livestream.com/accounts/10140781.
• Be sure to visit muleriderathletics.com for continuing coverage of Lady Mulerider Volleyball including pre- and post-game updates, weekly notes, and the coach's show with Head Coach Britney Davis.