DAYTON — The Wright State volleyball team looks to continue its winning ways with a pair of home contests inside McLin Gymnasium this weekend as the Raiders welcome Oakland and Cleveland State to town to begin the second half of the Horizon League schedule. Friday's match is a 6 p.m. start and Saturday will get underway at 2 p.m. as the Raiders host Alumni Day as part of the action.
MATCH INFORMATION
Friday, October 21 - vs. Oakland - 6 p.m. -
Live Stats
Saturday, October 22 - vs. Cleveland State - 2 p.m. -
Live Stats
LAST TIME OUT
Wright State racked up its sixth and seventh straight sweeps as the Raiders ran their winning streak to 12 in a row with home victories over Robert Morris and Youngstown State.
Taylor Bransfield led the Raiders with 14 kills on Friday night as nine different Wright State players recorded a kill and the team finished the night with only five attacking errors.
Megan Alders, put down eight kills and freshman
Elena Dubuc tallied six kills of her own in her two sets played. Saturday,
Sam Ott finished with a match-high 11 kills for the Raiders on Friday night, with Alders adding 10 kills to also finish in double figures.
Callie Martin finished the night with a complete stat line, tallying six kills, five service aces and a block to go along with her 13 digs.
CLIMBING TO THE TOP
Lainey Stephenson begins the week with 4,646 career assists, third all-time in Wright State history and just 11 shy of Lisa Dearden, who played for the Raiders from 1993-96 and currently sits in second place. Stephenson is 398 assists away from becoming Wright State's all-time assists leader, which remains in play based off her yearly season averages throughout her career.Mandy Gels (1999-2002) is the Wright State program leader with 5,044 assists in her career.
THE NCAA STORY
Jenna Story has put herself in impressive company, entering the weekend No. 7 all-time in NCAA Division I history with 2,732 career digs (and counting). Story has a chance to jump up the national list quickly in the coming matches, beginning the weekend 20 digs shy of sixth-place all-time (2,752, Taylor Root, Valpo 2009-12). Story has another connection to Root, as Story has a chance to join Root as only the fourth player in Horizon League history to be a four-time HL First Team selection.
DEFEND McLIN
Since the start of the 2018 season, Wright State is 42-8 overall in home matches inside McLin Gymnasium after a 21-60 home mark (and just 54 total victories, home or otherwise) from 2011-2016. Overall, the Raiders are now 56-15 in Horizon League play since the start of 2018 and have 95 total wins in that same stretch.
KNOW THE FOES
- Oakland is 9-13 overall with a 5-5 Horizon League record. Oakland has tallied seven of its nine wins in road or neutral site matches and had won three of its last four before falling in five sets to Youngstown State at home on Tuesday night. The Raiders dispatched Oakland in four sets back on Sept. 24, marking the lone set Wright State has dropped in HL play to date.
- Cleveland State is 8-13 to date with a 5-5 Horizon League record, having won two straight matches in HL play, both coming at home where they have recorded five of their wins. The Raiders began the first round of HL action at CSU back on Sept. 23.
RECENT HISTORY WITH THE OPPONENTS
Wright State has won the last 15 combined meetings against Cleveland State and Oakland going into this weekend's action. The last Raider losses to the two came on back-to-back matches in 2018 - a four-set loss at Cleveland State on Sept. 29 and a five-set defeat at Oakland on Oct. 3.
