#6 Wisconsin Lutheran College Warriors (13-14 overall)
at #3 Lakeland University Muskies (19-8 overall)
Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026 7 p.m.
Moose & Dona Woltzen Gymnasium
NACC Tournament Quarterfinals
Lakeland/WLC Match Notes PDF
Tournament time is here for the Lakeland University women's volleyball team as the Muskies open Northern Athletics Collegiate Confernece Tournament play against Wisconsin Lutheran College in a quarterfinal match Tuesday night at 7 p.m. at the Moose & Dona Woltzen Gymnasium.
Broadcast Information
Live video:
http://www.lakelandmuskies.com/muskieslive. Lakeland student-athlete Sam Marchant is again serving as the Voice of the Muskies this year and will call the play-by-play on the Muskies live stream.
Live statistics:
https://lakelandmuskies.com/sidearmstats/wvb/summary
Ticket Information: https://lakelandmuskies.com/sports/2017/11/3/ticket-policies
Series history: Lakeland and Wisconsin Lutheran are long-time adversaries in women's volleyball with a series going back at least as far as 1980. Records are incomplete, but in matchups documented in Lakeland record books the Muskies hold a 42-22 lead. Lakeland has won the last two meetings, including a 25-16, 25-20, 25-18 sweep 12 days ago. Before the last two matchups, the Warriors had won five of six in the series, including a five-set win at WLC on Nov. 7, 2024. Somewhat surprisingly, Lakeland and Wisconsin Lutheran have met just once before in the NACC Tournament in the conference's 20 years in existence. The Muskies swept the Warriors in three sets in the 2009 tournament quarterfinals, on their way to winning the tourney and making the program's most recent trip to the NCAA Division III Tournament.
Lakeland last time out: Defeated Concordia Chicago 3-0 Saturday
The Muskies closed the regular season with a convincing win over the Cougars, prevailing 25-16, 25-17, 25-19 at home. Lakeland never trailed in the first set, only for a brief time in the second set and then finished the match on a 7-1 run to close out the sweep.
Maleigha Kovalaske piled up 21 of the Muskies' 44 kills,
Emily R. Hansen added eight kills and
Caitlyn Pernsteiner finished with seven kills. Lakeland recognized seniors Pernsteiner,
Ryan Figi,
Emily J. Hansen and student assistant
Lourdes Lester before the match on Senior Day, and the Muskies won for the ninth time in 10 matches and are one win from their first 20-win season since 2018.
Wisconsin Lutheran last time out: Defeated Benedictine 3-0 Saturday
The Warriors handled the Eagles with ease in their home finale, finishing a 25-13, 25-21, 25-21 sweep in Milwaukee. Ireland Zyzo finished with 12 kills and Alex Emberger added 11 kills as WLC hit .239 as a team, its third-best hitting percentage mark this season. Veronica Tollakson added 15 assists and four service aces and Alyssa Koval finished with a team-best 13 digs. Lutheran continued a trend of alternating wins and losses over its last 11 matches now, and the team is in the NACC Tournament for the second straight season, having lost in the quarterfinals to Aurora last year.
Recapping the first meeting: The Muskies didn't play exceptionally well in the teams' first match less than two weeks ago, but it was still more than enough to cruise to a comfortable three-set win. The Fish hit a collective .141 with 27 kills and 13 errors, but Wisconsin Lutheran hit .000 with 29 kills and 29 errors. Lakeland also posted solid advantages in service aces (7 to 1) and blocks (7 to 3), with Kovalaske posting a team-high nine kills and
Emily J. Hansen adding three service aces.
NACC tourney history: Lakeland is making its 19th appearance in the NACC Tournament and has a 13-14 record all-time, including championships in 2007, 2008 and 2009. The Muskies are searching for their first win in the conference tourney since 2019, when as the No. 3 seed Lakeland defeated Benedictine in the quarterfinals before being eliminated by Concordia Wisconsin in the semifinals. Wisconsin Lutheran has a much thinner history in the NACC tourney; the Warriors are 1-9 all-time in the event, with their lone win coming in an abbreviated tournament in spring 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic, when WLC defeated Edgewood in three sets to claim the South Division title that year.
