No. 12 Ducks Host Iowa Sunday - University of Oregon Athletics

EUGENE, Ore. — The No. 12 Oregon volleyball team continues its home stand Sunday against Iowa at Matthew Knight Arena. First serve is scheduled for 1 p.m. with doors opening at noon. The Ducks are coming off Friday's win over Maryland while Iowa dropped a four-set decision at No. 20 Washington.

Oregon is 18-3 this season with a 9-2 mark in Big Ten play.

Series History vs Iowa
Oregon and Iowa will be playing for just the fourth time when the teams meet Sunday in Eugene. The Ducks hold the slight 2-1 edge in the brief history including the last two as conference opponents. Last season, Oregon saved four match points in a five-set home win over the Hawkeyes.

Last Time Out
Alanah Clemente hit .522 with a match-high 14 kills in Friday's home sweep of Maryland, Oregon's first straight-set win since Sept. 20 against Oregon State. Sophomore libero led all players with 15 digs while Sjakkie Donkers and Valentina Vaulet joined Clemente in double figures with 10 each. Oregon hit .294 with Marina Crownover dishing out 41 assists in three sets.

25-for-25
In the third set of Friday's win over Maryland, the Ducks accounted for all 25 of their points. The team had 20 kills, three service aces and two total blocks. Alanah Clemente had 10 of those 20 kills.

Milestone Watch
Fifth-year setter Marina Crownover heads into Sunday's match with 2,949 career assists, just 51 shy of reaching 3,000 during her collective time at Texas, Missouri and Oregon; she redshirted her first season with the Longhorns. This season, Crownover has 40 or more assists in 14 matches including a high of 51 assists in a four-set win over Illinois (Oct. 4).

Killing It
The Ducks put down 51 kills in Friday's straight-set win over Maryland with 18 and 20 kills in the second and third sets, respectively. Oregon is now averaging 14.25 kills per set, good for second in the Big Ten and a top-10 ranking in the NCAA. Junior Sjakkie Donkers leads the team and is sixth in the Big Ten with 3.73 kills per set.

Active Ace
With two aces Friday against Maryland, senior Valentina Vaulet is second among active NCAA Division I players with 184 career service aces. She has 85 of those aces in 50 aces at Oregon. Vaulet trails only Autumn Martinez-Robinson (187) of George Mason and sits one ahead of Olivia Babcock (183) of Pitt. Vaulet goes into the match eighth in the Big Ten with 29 service aces.

Can You Dig It?
The Ducks picked up 78 digs in their four-set road win at Ohio State (Oct. 24), good for the team's high mark in a Big Ten match this season. Alanah Clemente led all players with a career-high 17 digs while Sjakkie Donkers and Reese Sheppard each had 14, and Marina Crownover finished with 11 digs. Oregon enters Sunday's match averaging 14.43 digs per set; the team averaged 11.38 digs per set last season.

Up Next
The Ducks host top-ranked Nebraska next Saturday (7 p.m., BTN) followed by Sunday's Senior Night against Northwestern (6 p.m., B1G+).

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