Volleyball Eagles Make the Short Trek to Richmond for the Geri Polvino Invitational This Weekend

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MOREHEAD, Ky. — Morehead State Volleyball will seek for its first victories of 2024 this weekend when the workforce makes one other quick trek for a trio of matches. This time, it is going to be in rival nation because the Eagles face off with former OVC foes Japanese Kentucky and Youngstown State, plus Radford, at EKU’s Geri Polvino Invitational.

MSU will open the occasion towards the Colonels at 1 p.m. ET Friday, then doubleheader it with YSU at 4 p.m. On Saturday, Radford might be on the alternative of the web at 11 a.m. All matches are within the Rick Erdmann Olympic Sports activities Coaching Middle because of EKU’s main enviornment being underneath building.

The EKU match might be on ESPN+, however the different two won’t be streamed.

2024 RECORDS

• Morehead State (0-3, 0-0 OVC)
• Japanese Kentucky (1-2, 0-0 A-SUN)
• Youngstown State (1-2, 0-0 HORIZON)
• Radford (1-2, 0-0 BIG SOUTH) 

PREVIOUS MEETING & SERIES HISTORY

• Morehead State and Japanese Kentucky have performed 121 occasions since 1972, in keeping with MSU information, and the Eagles lead the collection with their former OVC rival 71-50. The groups haven’t performed since 2021 when EKU departed the OVC for the Atlantic Solar. MSU owns a seven-match profitable streak towards the Colonels.
• The Eagles are 13-2 all-time towards one other former OVC member, Youngstown State. Since YSU departed the league after 1987, MSU has solely met the Penguins 4 occasions and have gone 3-1. The final conferences got here in Morehead in 2017 when YSU gained 3-0.
• Morehead State has a 4-2 document within the collection with Radford. The final three conferences have are available Morehead (2014 twice and 2021), however the Highlanders gained two of these. 

NOTABLE

• On opening weekend (towards Northern Kentucky on Saturday), Peighton Isley grew to become the twenty ninth participant in program historical past within the 1,000-dig membership. She now has 1,015 digs, rating twenty fifth in program historical past. Her 564 digs in 2023 ranked ninth on this system single-season dig chart.
• Peighton Isley earned All-Match honors for the Bluegrass Battle at Kentucky on opening weekend.
• M.E. Hargan and Irene Wogenstahl are each on the Ohio Valley Convention preseason All-Convention workforce.
• Irene Wogenstahl has a profession .289 hitting proportion, which at the moment ranks tied for fifth greatest proportion in program historical past. Her complete really ranks first at MSU within the rally-scoring period (2001-present).
• Irene Wogenstahl has 63 solo blocks in her profession, which ranks tied for fourth in program historical past. Her 336 complete blocks in her profession nonetheless rank seventh all-time, however she wants simply two extra to climb previous Erin Peak (337 from 2005-08) into sixth.
• Wogenstahl additionally led MSU on offense within the first three matches, notching 24 kills and a pair of.18 per set. M.E. Hargan is the Eagles’ chief in kills per set at 2.27.
• Wogenstahl and sophomore Amelia Nott mixed for 17 blocks within the opening trio of matches. Nott has performed in 124 profession units now with 92 profession complete blocks.
• Morehead State returned its whole roster from 2023. The Eagles additionally added three newcomers for one of many bigger rosters in current historical past with 16 gamers.
• Newcomers Sarah Heath and Tinsley Brown each noticed motion of their first matches as Eagles. 
• Newcomer Sarah Heath, an outdoor hitter, was a First-Workforce JUCO All-American at Richard Bland Faculty (Va.) in 2023 and a Second-Workforce All-American in 2022.
• MSU is deploying a 6-2 offense with two achieved setters. Graduate scholar Brenna Bommer (35 assists) and sophomore Sydney Sennett (39 assists) break up duties on opening weekend.
• Morehead State is the one OVC program with greater than 1,000 wins within the historical past of its program. The Eagles additionally boast 14 complete convention championships (regular-season and tournaments). 
• MSU has 12 20+ win seasons within the final 20 years.
• Head coach Kyrsten Becker-McBride is in her second season as this system’s chief, guiding the workforce to 18 wins in her first marketing campaign. However, she is in her 14th season general on the MSU teaching employees.

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