WACO, Texas – The Louisiana Christian University volleyball team earned its second Red River Athletic Conference weekly award of the season as Mallory Wills was named its Defensive Player of the Week on Monday.
 
Wills, a junior middle blocker from Lake Charles, La., was instrumental at the net for the Wildcats who went 3-1 on the week, including a massive, five-set win over LSU Shreveport on Wednesday night.
 
She appeared in three of LCU's four matches during the week, amassing 12 block assists in just 11 sets played for a 1.09 block per set average.
 
In Tuesday's loss to the Pilots, she had two block assists in three sets. She then rebounded in a big way in Wednesday's five-setter, combining to reject seven LSUS attacks as Louisiana Christian pulled the upset. She finished her week with three more block assists in Friday night's sweep of Texas College.
 
She also dug up three opposing attacks to go with her blocks on the defensive side of the net.
 
On the offensive end, Wills had nine kills on a .172 hit percentage in the three matches, a couple of assists, and three service aces.
 
Wills and the rest of the Wildcats (8-19, 7-11 RRAC) wrap up the regular season this weekend in Hobbs, N.M. with a pair of matches against Southwest, looking to extend their three-match win streak. Opening serve of Friday's match against the Mustangs (4-14, 4-14 RRAC) is set for 6 p.m. MST/7 p.m. CST at the Jack & Mabel Maddox Student Life Center.