August 30, 2025

Ladies Open Season With Win Over Wiley

The Centenary volleyball team defeated the Wiley University Wildcats in four sets on Saturday afternoon in the Ladies’ season opener in a non-conference contest inside the Gold Dome.

Wiley

1-1

Centenary (La.)

1-0

Final	1	2	3	4	T
Wiley 1-1	11	25	9	18	1
Centenary (La.) 1-0	25	21	25	25	3

Shreveport – The Centenary volleyball team defeated the Wiley University Wildcats in four sets on Saturday afternoon in the Ladies' season opener in a non-conference contest inside the Gold Dome.

The Ladies (1-0) snapped a 15-match losing streak as they picked up their first victory since also defeating the Wildcats (1-1) on Sept. 24 of last season at home in a match sweep. Centenary has now won four-straight matches against Wiley.

Centenary won the first set, 25-11, but Wiley responded with a 25-21 win in set two to tie the match. The Ladies dominated in the third set (25-9), and clinched the win with a 25-18 edge in set four.

The Ladies finished with 56 digs, 43 kills, 41 assists, and 22 service aces. The Wildcats tallied 50 digs, 30 kills, 27 assists, and 10 aces. Centenary had one solo block and Wiley recorded four.

Centenary's best offensive set was the fourth and final one in which the Maroon and White had an impressive .417 hitting percentage (24 total attacks – 11 kills – 1 error) followed by their second-best – the first set (.346 hitting percentage with 26 total attacks – 13 kills – 4 errors). The Ladies hit .310 in set three (29 total attacks – 10 kills – 1 error).

Wiley struggled offensively all afternoon as its best hitting % in a set was .176 in the second as the Wildcats finished with 34 total attacks and had 12 kills and six errors.

Ladies' Statistical Leaders:

Aces: Junior OH/DS Destiny Labbe (Eunice, La.) – 7

Assists: Freshman S Lillian Mycke (Athens, Texas) – 36

Digs: Labbe – 18

Kills: Freshman OH/DS Zoe Garcia (Magnolia, Texas) - 14

Sophomore OH Laijah Rockward (Houma, La.) played in all four sets and tallied 10 kills, four aces, an assist, and one dig.

Sophomore S Jadyn Harris (Fort Worth, Texas) was second on the team in digs (12) and added six aces and four kills in an impressive debut. Freshman MB Aley Dixon (White Oak, Texas) had five kills, one solo block, and one dig. Freshman DS/S Elize Castillo (Austin, Texas) had a solid collegiate debut as well as she finished with 10 digs, three aces, and a pair of assists.

Labbe added 10 kills and an assist to go with her team-leading number of aces and digs, Mycke had six digs and an ace along with her team-high 36 assists, and Garcia added eight digs, an ace, and an assist to go with her team-best number of kills.

Labbe and Harris both found their way into the all-time program record book after just one career match as Labbe's seven aces are tied for the third most in a single match in the division III era (2011-present) and Harris' six are tied for 10^th.

The Ladies return to action on Friday, Sept. 12 as they face the host Millsaps College Majors at 2 p.m. in the Millsaps Invitational in Jackson, Miss.

See the complete Ladies' 2025 season schedule here: https://gocentenary.com/sports/wvball/2025-26/schedule

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