JOPLIN, Mo. – The Dallas Christian College volleyball team will be competing at the Association of Christian College Athletics (ACCA) Tournament this Wednesday, November 10 – Friday, November 12 at host school Ozark Christian College. Games can be watched here.
 
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The schedule was created with six participating teams and will have Pool play involved. DCC is the top seed in Pool 1 and will play Trinity Bible College on Wednesday at 5 p.m. and host Ozark Christian College on Thursday at 3 p.m. On Friday Pool A #1 will play Pool B #2 at 12 p.m., while Pool B #1 plays Pool A #2. The winners play in the championship at 5 p.m.
 
Tiebreaks will be:

1. Head to head
2. Sets Differential
3. Total Points Differential

Dallas Christian represents the top seed in Pool A after winning the NCCAA Division II Regional Championship last Friday, DCC is 15-10 and won all three regional rounds to earn an automatic bid to Kissimmee, Florida.
 
Regional Runner-ups, Arlington Baptist University, will also be in the tournament as the top seed on Pool B. Kansas Christian College and Champion Christian College round out that pool. The Crusaders won its matchups with Ozark Christian, Kansas Christian, and Champion Christian in three sets this fall. They never faced Trinity Bible who they will open this tournament with. The biggest potential matchup will be ABU, if either shall advance that far. DCC is 2-1 with both its wins coming at home in five sets.
 
Story Lines

• DCC has gone 10-3 against NCCAA Division II Southwest Regional Opponents and 11-3 against schools that are in the same division and league. Two of the losses were to Manhattan Christian College.
• DCC ranks 5^th in the Top 10 NCCAA DII Power Rankings and held a ranking as high as fourth this year.
• Lauren Baker ranks fifth in the NCCAA DII in kills with 245. Her kills total and average (2.92) are best on the team.
• Caitlyn Yablon sits seventh in the nation with 419 digs.
• Baker and Yablon were named Southwest All-Region Team. Christen Downey was Second Team.
• The Crusaders 10.47 kills-per-set are third. The team eclipsed 900 on the year to break into the top 10.
• The Crusaders 1,415 digs tied for 10^th overall and 16.45 digs-per-set were sixth.
• Downey is second on the team with 187 kills and is hitting a team-best .281 percent.
• Elizabeth Morrow rounds out the top trio in kills with 137. She had a monster regional with 38 kills over three matches, including tying a career-high 18 kills in the championship. She nailed the winning points in the fourth and fifth sets.
• Cameron Del Angel rounds out a quartet of Crusaders with 117 kills.
• Hannah Gallegos and Kelly Graves form a strong tandem of setters with 335 and 260, respectively.
• Six Crusaders have notched double figures in service aces led by freshman Olivia Withers with 28. Yablon (24), Rae Leano (23), Gallegos (18), Graves (14), and Downey (13) are also in this group.

 
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