2024-09-24 00:15:03
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MOREHEAD, Ky. — The Ohio Valley Conference ledger begins for Morehead State volleyball this week. The action starts Wednesday evening with a 5 p.m. ET home match against Tennessee State. After that, MSU heads to Tennessee Tech Saturday.
The TSU match will be on ESPN+. Dean Hardin and Logan Liles are on the call.
It’s student-athlete appreciation night.
2024 RECORDS
- Tennessee State (4-9, 0-0 OVC)
- Morehead State (4-7, 0-0 OVC)
PREVIOUS MEETING & SERIES HISTORY
- Morehead State has a commanding 64-14 all-time lead in the series with Tennessee State.
- Since 2017, MSU has won 13 of the last 14 meetings. MSU has only ever lost three meetings with TSU at home, leading that portion of the series 36-3. The last TSU win in Morehead was 2016.
NOTABLE
- MSU has won four of its last six OVC-opening matches.
- Under head coach Kyrsten Becker-McBride (second season), MSU is: 11-8 in 3-set matches, 6-11 in 4-set matches, 4-2 in 5-set matches
- Peighton Isley earned All-Tournament honors for the Bluegrass Battle at Kentucky on opening weekend, while M.E. Hargan earned All-Tournament for the Geri Polvino Invitational. Irene Wogenstahl and Sydney Wyman both were honored as All-Tournament for the Comfort Inn-Vitational.
- M.E. Hargan and Irene Wogenstahl are both on the Ohio Valley Conference preseason All-Conference team.
- Irene Wogenstahl totaled 13 blocks this past week in the series with Cincinnati.
- Irene Wogenstahl has a career .289 hitting percentage, which currently ranks fifth in program history. Her accuracy ranks first at MSU in the rally-scoring era (2001-present).
- Irene Wogenstahl has 67 solo blocks in her career, which ranks third in program history during the rally scoring era. Her 368 total blocks in her career ranks sixth among all players since 2008 when the 25-point rally scoring era began.
- Since 2018, the program owns a 67-18 record in home matches, or a winning success of better than 80 percent.
- Career double-double count: Brenna Bommer = 13, M.E. Hargan = 10, Sydney Sennett = 3
- Morehead State has totaled 40+ kills in 10 of its 11 matches in 2024.
- The Eagles have registered 45+ digs in 10 of their 11 matches.
- Sydney Wyman landed 32 kills with just 10 errors in her last four matches.
- In the last six matches, MSU has 54 total team blocks, or 9.0 per match. In the first five matches, MSU had just 27 blocks, or just more than 5.0 per set.
- Maycie Welborn had six blocks in the Cincinnati series, moving her above 200 total rejections for her career – now with 202.
- Defensive specialist Courtney Fitzgerald has seen her back row production ramp up recently. She has 10+ digs in three of her last five matches. Fitzgerald piled up a season-high 15 scoops against UC Saturday.
- Morehead State returned its entire roster from 2023. The Eagles also added three newcomers for one of the larger rosters in recent history with 16 players.
- Morehead State is the only OVC program with more than 1,000 wins in the history of its program. The Eagles also boast 14 total conference championships (regular-season and tournaments).
- MSU has 12 20+ win seasons in the last 20 years.
- Head coach Kyrsten Becker-McBride is in her second season as the program’s leader, guiding the team to 18 wins in her first campaign. But, she is in her 14th season overall on the MSU coaching staff.
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