BELTON, Texas- The Howard Payne University volleyball team wins its first game of the season against Centenary College 3-2! They went 1-1 for this double-header, losing 3-0 to Hendrix College. The win against Centenary College marks Joshua Gerig's first win as head coach!
 
Game One
The Lady Jackets took down Centenary College in five sets. HPU lost the first two sets with close scores of 25-23 and 25-19. The Lady Jackets came back and won in the third set 30-28. Falling short during the fourth set 25-19, HPU fought hard to win the last set by a score of 16-14!
 
Riley Brittain led HPU in assists with a personal best of 43! Lady Jackets' Mitsue Rodriguez and Rylee Spencer both had 12 kills, followed by Abbie Knepper and Carsyn Bilbrey with 10 kills each. Hannah Vega led with 20 digs, followed by Carsyn Bilbrey with 18 digs. Riley Brittain also had five block assists alongside Abbie Knepper and Rylee Spencer with 4 block assists.
 
Game Two
The Lady Jackets fell in their second match of the day against Hendrix College 3-0. The scores of the sets were as followed; 25-11, 25-8, and 25-14.
 
Howard Payne's Kaitlyn Elsten led the team with eight assists. For HPU's dig leaders, Mitsue Rodriguez had seven digs, followed by Hannah Vega with six.
 
The Lady Jackets are now 1-3 on the season and will be back in Brownwood for their first home game at the Coliseum at 6:00 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6^th, versus Schreiner University!