DELAND, Fla. – Bethune-Cookman will be staying closer to home this weekend for its fourth and final tournament of the 2018 season as the Lady Wildcats compete at the Stetson Invitational in the storied Edmunds Center Friday and Saturday.

Coming off a 3-1 performance last weekend in New Orleans, the Lady Wildcats (5-5) meet  Chicago State Friday at 2:30, then face Brown (4-2) at 2:30 p.m. and then face the host Hatters (6-6) in the mythical Volusia County championship match Saturday at 6 p.m.

SOME HISTORY: B-CU is at .500 after ten matches for the first time since the 2001 team started 6-4. However, that team lost three in a row and dipped to 6-7. So,  a two-victory performance this weekend would give B-CU its best 13-match start in program history.

SOME STATS: Faith Landreneaux is sixth in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference in hitting percentage ( .267), 3rd in aces (.52 per set) and 7th in blocks (.81 per set) … Jordan Jefferson is 6th in kills (3.11 per set), 7th in digs (3.61 per set) and 6th in scoring (3.49 points per set) …Meraiah Hill is 2nd in blocks (1.21 per set) and Shayla Eugene is 10th in digs (3.00 per set)

SCOUTING:  Chicago State has won its last two matches …  Brown has gone 2-1 in both its previous tournament … Stetson is 6-3 for the first time since 2013.

TICKETS: Single-day passes start at just $10 for general admission and Stetson faculty, staff and students are admitted free with an ID.  Tickets are $5 for the last match of the day only.

WEEKEND COVERAGE: Our good friends at Stetson have set up a Tournament Central that incudes links to live stats and video. We'll retweet those and other pithy in-match comments on our official twitter feed @BCUvolleyball.