LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, Ga. - Belhaven and Huntingdon meet for the third time this season Thursday in the Collegiate Conference of the South quarterfinals. Both teams finished 6-6 in league play, and the Hawks earned the No. 4 seed by winning both regular-season meetings. The winner stays in Lookout Mountain to face top-seeded Covenant on Friday at 5:30 p.m. CT. The Scots went 12-0 in conference play and are hosting all three rounds.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2026
NO. 5 BELHAVEN BLAZERS (11-15, 6-6 CCS) vs. NO. 4 HUNTINGDON HAWKS (9-14, 6-6 CCS)
5:30 PM CT  | Barnes PE Center | Lookout Mountain, Ga.  

THE POSTSEASON REMATCH
Thursday marks the second CCS Tournament meeting between the programs. In 2024, the seeds were reversed. No. 4 Belhaven hosted No. 5 Huntingdon at Rugg Arena and took the third set 26-24 before the Hawks closed out a 3-1 win with a 28-26 fourth. Megan LaCour had 10 kills and nine digs in that match. The all-time series is tied 10-10, with Belhaven's most recent win coming in four sets at Rugg Arena on Oct. 30, 2025.

A FIRST WITHIN REACH
Belhaven has reached the quarterfinals in all five seasons of CCS volleyball and is looking for its first tournament win. The Blazers fell to Berea in 2022, Maryville in 2023, Huntingdon in 2024 and Covenant in 2025. Thursday brings Belhaven back to the Barnes PE Center, where it opened last year's tournament against the Scots.

FIVE POINTS OVER EIGHT SETS
Huntingdon won both meetings this season, but the Hawks outscored Belhaven by only five points across the eight sets, 172-167. The Blazers were a point from winning the Sept. 22 match at Rugg Arena after Laila Gauthier's kill put them ahead 24-23 in the fourth. Salome De Jesus answered with a kill and an ace, and Jessie Eunice and A'Kirra McElveen combined on a block to force a fifth. Huntingdon took the decider 15-13 and won the Nov. 3 rematch in Montgomery in straight sets.

AT THE LINE AND AT THE NET
Belhaven ranks third in the CCS with 2.03 aces per set and served 19 aces to Huntingdon's 12 in the two meetings. The Hawks had the edge at the net, 15-8 in team blocks. McElveen was involved in 13 of those 15 blocks and leads the conference with 88 on the season, an average of 1.05 per set. Huntingdon leads the league at 1.82 blocks per set.

REGULAR SEASON REWIND
Belhaven went 9-3 over its next 12 matches after opening the season 0-5. The stretch included the program's first win over Asbury, a reverse sweep on Sept. 26 that ended a run of 14 straight sets lost to the Eagles. That win started a four-match CCS winning streak. The Blazers also accounted for two of second-seeded LaGrange's four conference losses, winning in four sets in Jackson and again on the road.

Belhaven enters the postseason hitting .163 and averaging 11.13 kills per set, both its best marks in five CCS seasons. The Blazers hit .128 and averaged 10.23 kills per set a year ago. In their first meeting with Huntingdon this fall, they hit .255, including 13 kills without an error in a 25-12 third set.

WOODALL'S BREAKOUT
Tarryn Woodall leads the CCS with 4.00 points per set and ranks second with 3.40 kills per set. The sophomore has 323 kills after recording 125 as a freshman, making her the first Blazer to reach 300 in a season since Belhaven joined the CCS. She put down 47 kills in the two wins over LaGrange, including 25 at Rugg Arena. Woodall passed 500 career points against Millsaps on Saturday and finished the day with 28 kills and 24 digs across two matches.

TOMLIN SETS THE PACE
Three-time CCS Setter of the Week Maggie Joy Tomlin leads the conference in assists per set (6.73) and aces per set (0.62). She had 49 assists in the first Huntingdon match, a career-high 57 in the September win over LeTourneau and nine aces in the win at Berea. Tomlin crossed 500 career assists against Covenant on Oct. 31 and reached 500 for the season against Millsaps on Nov. 7. She enters Thursday with 532 this fall.

SENIOR MILESTONES
LaCour reached 1,000 career points this fall and has been Belhaven's most productive hitter against Huntingdon, putting down 20 kills in Jackson and 12 without an error in Montgomery. The two-time All-CCS selection enters Thursday with 968 career kills and 970 career digs.

Kayla Robinson and Cami Davis reached career marks in the same match at LeTourneau on Oct. 13. Robinson passed 1,500 digs, and Davis recorded her 200th block early in the third set. Robinson leads the CCS at 5.15 digs per set and is six digs shy of 500 this season. Davis leads Belhaven with 65 blocks and hit .333 in conference play.

FRESHMEN IN THE ROTATION
Gauthier enters her first CCS Tournament third on the team with 171 kills. The September CCS Rookie of the Week put down 13 in the first Huntingdon match and added 12 on .345 hitting against Rhodes in the regular-season finale. Freshman setter Angel Edwards had a season-high four aces in the Nov. 3 meeting with the Hawks and closed the regular season with 27 assists and 11 digs against Rhodes. Goldie Lowe is second on the team with 46 blocks and has served 24 aces.

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