Though the volleyball team won their opening tournament last weekend in impressive fashion, they are still working on getting better.

While Denise Van De Walle was ecstatic about the win, she still noticed a few areas that needed some attention.

‘Team play and playing faster is something we worked on the most this week,’ Van De Walle said. ‘We also spent time on serve receive.’

The Falcons hope to take what they worked on this week in practice and some of last weekend’s momentum with them to the Radisson New Orleans Airport Privateer Invitational today and tomorrow.

In the tournament, hosted by the University of New Orleans, BG will play host school New Orleans tonight and will meet with Texas Tech and Southeastern Louisiana tomorrow. The Falcons have never faced any of the three schools they will play this weekend.

Van De Walle does not know a ton about any of these teams, but she has done some research.

‘Opening up with a very good New Orleans team will tell us quite a bit,’ she said. ‘They are pretty physical and a bit taller than we are. The other two matches are up will be up for grabs.’

New Orleans opened their season by dropping two of three matches. As a team, they hit just .195, but they got 42 kills and give aces from their star Lindsey Boyd.

Texas Tech was swept by Creighton and Illinois in their opening weekend. The team hit only .141 under their first-year coach.

Southeastern Louisiana struggled the most in the opening weekend out of the teams the Falcons will face this weekend. If the term struggled does not say it, then the numbers will. The team hit .042 for the weekend.

After going undefeated last weekend, BG is off to the best start since 2001, when the team won five in a row to open the season.

‘We’re still evaluating,’ Van De Walle said. ‘We continue to look at the team as a whole and we’ll know more after this weekend’s trip and competition.’