The Tuskegee University volleyball team picks up where the football team left off by making a trip to the state of Ohio. The Golden Tigers will play four games in a two day span at Wilberforce, Ohio on the campus of Central State University Friday and Saturday.

Tuskegee (1-15, 1-5 SIAC) will start the West Cluster off on Friday morning at 11 am against Kentucky State. The Golden Tigers with square off against Lane College a couple of hours later at 1 p.m.
 
Saturday gets underway with an 11 a.m. match featuring Central State.  The Cluster closes out for the Golden Tigers at 1 p.m. against Lemoyne-Owen College Saturday afternoon.

TU earned its first win of the season last Friday morning defeating Paine College 3-1 on day two of the SIAC Crossover in Birmingham.  The victory also marked the first of the Janay Yancey era, who is in her first season as head coach.

The Golden Tigers dropped the first set (25-20) before reeling off the next three (25-22, 25-21, 25-16). TU totaled twice as many kills as Paine racking up 42, while the Lions were held to 22.  Tuskegee also finished with 39 assists to Paine's 17.

Takeba Dowden and Kiara Hooks both led Tuskegee with nine kills each.  Cyrani Butler and Brianna Fisher finished with 18 assists 17 assists respectively. Avery Brown (8) and Zahria Radford (7) led TU in the digs category.   
 
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