Match 24: Utah (13-10, 5-7) at Cal (12-11, 4-8)
Friday, Nov. 2 | 8 p.m. MT
Berkeley | Haas Pavilion
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Match 25: Utah (13-10, 5-7) at Stanford (20-1, 12-0)
Sunday, Nov. 4 | 3 p.m. MT
Palo Alto | Maples Center
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FIRST SERVE
Utah is traveling this weekend to take on Cal on Friday, November 2 and No. 2 Stanford on Sunday, November 4.
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The Utes currently sit at 5-7 in Pac-12 play and are in a tie for seventh.
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Friday's match will be streamed by Cal, and Sunday's match at Stanford will be on Pac-12 Network.
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SERIES HISTORY
The Utes dropped both matches to Stanford and Cal earlier in the season in Salt Lake City.
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The loss to Cal snapped a four-match winning streak against the Bears. Utah has had some success playing in Haas Pavilion going 4-2 against Cal on the road and winning the last four meetings.
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Utah is 2-14 all-time against Stanford with one of those victories coming on the road.
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1,000 CAREER DIGS
Against Washington State,
Brianna Doehrmann became the 11th player in program history and 164th player in Pac-12 history that reached the 1,000-career digs mark.
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She's been on fire lately having at least 18 digs in six of the last eight matches.
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Overall, she has had six matches with 20-plus digs including the match against No. 25 Arizona where she had a season high 28 digs averaging 7.0 digs per set.
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In the season, Doehrmann is eighth in the Pac-12 averaging 3.98 digs per set and has stepped that up in conference play averaging 4.20 digs per set.
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KOERBER COMES UP CLUTCH
Kenzie Koerber has been consistent through Pac-12 play and came up big for the Utes against Washington State and Washington.
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Against the Cougars, Koerber led the team in kills and blocks in the three-set match. She followed that up against the Huskies with not as many kills, but they were very important.
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Out of her eight kills against Washington, three of them closed out sets to give the Utes the 3-0 win. In the second set with the score tied at 24, Koerber got the last two kills to give Utah a big 2-0 lead.
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Koerber is also second on the team in blocks with 79.0 on the season.
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BLOCK PARTY
The Utes had 21.0 blocks against the Cal Bears in their first matchup. That is the first time the Utes have surpassed 20 blocks since 2013 when Utah did it against Arizona.
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Leading the way was
Kennedi Evans. She had 15.0 blocks against the Golden Bears, which is the second most in program history and the most ever in a five-set match.
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The 15.0 blocks are also the most in a five-set match across the NCAA this season.
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The Utah program record is held by Lori Baird, who had 16.0 in a three-set match against BYU in 2008.
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In Pac-12 play, Evans is in the conference averaging 1.26 blocks per set.
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The Utes have been good through conference play having the third best blocks per set in the conference at 2.32.
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A LOOK AHEAD
Utah returns home for its final weekend home series hosting the desert schools.
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First up, will be nationally ranked Arizona on Friday, November 9 at 7 p.m. Then they will turn their attention to Arizona State on Sunday, November 11.
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