UT Dallas volleyball gets its first taste of the postseason Thursday, when the seventh-seeded Comets meet No. 2 seed Dallas Baptist in the Lone Star Conference Championship quarterfinals at Angelo State in San Angelo.
First serve is 1:30 p.m. The winner plays in Friday's semifinals at 4 p.m. This is the program's first season eligible for postseason play as an NCAA Division II member, the school's athletics department said.
How they got there
The Comets finished the regular season 14-12 overall and 10-7 in conference play after dropping their last two matches on the road. DBU swept them in three sets Friday, and Texas Woman's came back Saturday in Denton after UT Dallas took the first two sets 25-21 and 25-21, winning the next three 25-22, 25-19 and 15-9.
A few marks came out of that last match. Jane Burkhardt's 16 kills moved her to 396 for the season, fourth on the program's single-season list. Setter Abby Gentner passed 1,097 career assists, seventh in program history, and Scarlette Young recorded her sixth triple-double of the year with 10 kills, 24 assists and 15 digs.
Thursday's opponent is a familiar one. The quarterfinal is a rematch of last Friday's match against the Patriots, which DBU won in three sets.