The Southern Oregon volleyball team will attempt to rebound from dropping back-to-back conference tilts for the first time since 2001 this weekend with home tilts against Cascade and Warner Pacific.

The Raiders (13-9 overall, 11-3 CCC) saw their 10-match win-streak snapped, dropped out of this week's NAIA top-25 poll for the first time since Sep. 30, and were bumped to third in the league standings after losing in five sets to Eastern Oregon and in three to College of Idaho over the weekend.

“We started off really slow (at Eastern), ended up playing exceptionally well to come back and it was an incredible match but they were just better,” Raider coach Josh Rohlfing said. “The next night we were swinging for (the win in) the first set at 27-26, but when we lost that we just didn't have the energy to come back after the night before.”

Southern Oregon is tied with Eastern for the third spot in the Cascade Conference and a game behind Oregon Tech and College of Idaho.

Middle blocker Mia Wortel (Estacada, Ore./Estacada) finished another impressive weekend with 30 kills and two attacking errors. Wortel is hitting .474 during conference play and leads the conference and ranks eighth in the NAIA with an overall attack percentage of .398. The school record for attack percentage is a season is .416 set by Tammy Lindsay in 1986.

The senior needs three kills to pass Nicholette Le Bel and 14 to pass Sheri Miller on the all-time Raider kill list.

Junior setter Lindsey Stone (Ashland, Ore./Ashland) tallied 93 weekend assists, leaving her loop-best assist average at 10.54 per set, which is also seventh in the NAIA. Stone is also the league-leader in services aces per game with a 0.41 clip.

Junior hitter Samantha Yutzie's average of 2.63 kills per set is second on the team behind Wortel's 2.79, and libero Maggie Rivers (Salem, Ore./McNary)' 3.80 digs per set are good for fourth in the CCC.

The Raiders will entertain Cascade (1-13, 5-15) on Friday, and a win would run Southern's series edge against the Thunderbirds to 23-0. The Raiders swept Cascade on Oct. 4 behind Wortel's 10 kills and a 38-assist effort from Stone.

The Thunderbirds are led by junior Natalie Forgan's 3.08 kills per game and junior Carla Crowders 7.65 assists per game.

Warner Pacific (4-10, 6-10) will visit McNeal Pavilion Saturday three weeks after snapping Southern Oregon's streak of six matches without a lost set. The Raiders went on to win the match in four games and have toppled the Knights in the last 15 matches between the schools.

Kara Veach and Leah Gradwohl are second and third in the CCC with kill averages of 3.59 and 3.43-per-game to pace the Knights.

“We obviously need to get back on the winning side of things, so we need to assert ourselves early and take care of business right away,” Rohlfing said, “but this needs to be a statement week for us.”

Both matches begin at 7 p.m. and fans are encouraged to wear black in accordance with Raider “Blackout” weekend.