MONROE, La. – The ULM beach volleyball team visits Fort Worth, Texas, for the Fight in the Fort, hosted by TCU, at the TCU Beach Volleyball Courts.
ULM opens the weekend with New Orleans at 7:30 a.m. Friday, followed by Stephen F. Austin at 1:30 p.m. On Saturday, the Warhawks take on Arizona State at 9:30 a.m. and No. 3 TCU at 3:30 p.m.
ULM was 1-3 at the Gamecock Grand Slam at South Carolina last week. ULM defeated Mercer, 4-1, in Friday's opener, but then lost to three ranked opponents, No. 15 Pepperdine, No. 19 South Carolina and No. 5 LSU, all by 5-0 scores.
Senior
Audrey Brooks and junior
Julia Blazek played on Court 1 last week, while seniors
Kayla Gallant and
Rylin Adams along with the pair of senior
Elizabeth Moreland and junior
Brooke Hoven split time on Court 2 and Court 3. Gallant and Adams played on Court 2 on Friday and switched with Moreland and Hoven on Saturday. Brooks and Blazek as well as Gallant and Adams each went 1-3 on the weekend, while Morleand and Hoven were 0-4.
Sophomores
Madison Gray and
Kaitlyn Nowak and junior
Abigail Elder and sophomore
Abbey Bufkin went 1-3 on Courts 4 and 5, respectively.
Friday's match with New Orleans is the second meeting this season between ULM and the Privateers. The Warhawks won the first meeting, 3-2, on Feb. 25 at the Houston Baptist Tournament. ULM won the match thanks to victories by Gallant and Adams on Court 2, Moreland and Hoven on Court 4 and Bufkin and freshman
Tamsie Black on Court 5. UNO is 8-4 on the season after going 2-2 at last week's Tulane Classic.
The Friday afternoon match with SFA is also a rematch after the Lady Jacks defeated ULM, 4-1, on the first day of ULM's Bayou Bash on March 4. Moreland and Hoven picked up ULM's only point on Court 3. SFA is 7-6 and did not play last week after going 0-4 at the Tiger Beach Challenge at LSU on March 5-6.
ULM meets Arizona State for the first time this season on Saturday morning. ASU won the only other meeting in program history between the two, when the Sun Devils defeated the Warhawks, 3-2, on March 16, 2019, at the Arizona Invitational. The Sun Devils are 7-5 after going 4-2 last week.
Saturday afternoon's match with No. 3 TCU is the first of back-to-back meetings with the Horned Frogs, with a ULM/TCU matchup set to open next week's LSU Beach Invitational. TCU defeated ULM twice at last year's Fight in the Fort, both by 5-0 scores. The Frogs are off to a 15-0 start after winning six matches at last week's Queen's Cup tournament at Hawaii. TCU has won 13 of 15 matches by at least a 4-1 margin.
Links to live stats for all four matches at the Fight in the Fort are available on the beach volleyball schedule page at ULMWarhawks.com.
