ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Concordia-St. Paul volleyball team (15-4, 9-2 NSIC) heads south to visit Minnesota State (12-7, 6-5 NSIC) on Tuesday night for a midweek NSIC showdown.
 
The Golden Bears will look to build off of Saturday's sweep of MSU Moorhead and set the tone for the stretch run of conference play. Concordia picked up the decisive sweep of the Dragons after falling to #6 Northern State in four sets on Friday night. After seeing their eight-match winning streak snapped on Friday, CSP will look to get another one going this week.
 
Kasey Williams is a player to watch as the junior setter is coming off a strong weekend in which she averaged 13.00 assists and 3.00 digs per set while orchestrating the offense. Williams had at least 43 assists and eight digs in each set and recorded a double-double against the Dragons on Saturday afternoon. She ranks fourth in the nation in assists and has helped the offense to the 10^th best hitting percentage in the country. Her double-double on Saturday was her ninth of the year.
 
Emma Lange and Riley Hanson also are coming off impressive weekends as Lange led the way with 22 kills to go along with a .302 hitting percentage while Hanson put up 20 kills and a .425 hitting percentage. Both have really come on strong in NSIC play as Lange ranks third and Hanson ranks seventh in hitting percentage during the conference season at .412 and .384, respectively. Heather Schiller has also been efficient in league play as she ranks eighth at .370.
 
Concordia and Minnesota State will be meeting for the 25^th time on the court as the Golden Bears have won 21 of the first 25 meetings. CSP has had a bit of a tougher time on the road in the series over the past several years as the Golden Bears have lost two of the last three meetings in Mankato. The last meeting in Mankato came back on Sept. 16^th of last year in the conference opener and resulted in a four set win for the Mavericks.
 
The two teams met again in the NSIC opener this season but the Golden Bears turned the tables and picked up a sweep on their home court. CSP controlled every aspect of the match as they led MSU in hitting percentage (.228-.165), kills (39-35), assists (37-33), total blocks (8.0-5.0) and service aces (7-3) while committing less service errors (3-9) and blocking errors (3-4).
 
In what was a quiet individual statistic night, Anna Schlaak paced the Golden Bears with 13 kills while also chipping in eight digs. Emma Lange contributed eight kills as well while Riley Hanson and Mariya Sampson added six kills apiece.
 
Follow along with the action on Tuesday night via either live video or live stats at the links above.