Saturday, October 29

Middle Tennessee ties school record with 14th straight victory
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. - Oyinlola Oladinni starred on Senior Night for the Middle Tennessee volleyball team as the Blue Raiders secured a 14th consecutive win with a 3-0 (25-19, 25-12, 25-22) decision over visiting Denver at Alumni Memorial Gym on Saturday evening.

Oladinni ended the match with six kills on just 10 swings to go along five blocks.

Ashley Adams led the match in kills with 10, and both Alyssa Wistrick and Maria Szivos added nine as the Blue Raiders out-hit the Pioneers .244 to .012 and tallied 39 kills to DU's 24.

Wistrick also picked up her 1,000th collegiate kill in the first set.

Defensively, the Blue Raiders tallied 11 blocks. Cheatham had five, Adams had four and Peterson chipped in three.

Halie Vannoy tied for the match high with eight digs. Brynne Henderson tallied seven and Lindsey Purvis logged six.

WKU Volleyball Reaches 25-Win Plateau with 3-0 Victory over North Texas
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - The Western Kentucky University volleyball team extended its Sun Belt Conference winning streak to eight matches Saturday afternoon with a 3-0 (25-13, 25-16, 25-17) sweep of North Texas at E.A. Diddle Arena.

The Lady Toppers (25-3, 12-1) reached the 25-win plateau for the 10th straight season and 12th in the last 14 seasons, all under Hudson. All eight wins in the current win streak have come via a sweep as WKU finishes the regular season 12-1 at home.

WKU hit .330 as a team in the match with 50 kills while limiting North Texas (14-15, 5-8) to a .121 hitting mark with 26 kills and 13 attack errors.

The Lady Toppers had two players with double-digit kills as both senior Lindsay Williams and junior Jordyn Skinner each finished with 11 kills. Williams posted a .474 hitting in her final home game, committing only two errors in 19 attempts. Redshirt sophomore Paige Wessel tallied eight kills while senior Tiffany Elmore and sophomore Janee' Diggins each added seven kills.

Troy Trojans Come From Behind at FAU
BOCA RATON, Fla. – The Troy volleyball team had to come from behind, but in the end they finished off their regular season road schedule with a five-set win at Florida Atlantic on Saturday afternoon.

The Trojans (15-10, 5-6), for the second straight day, fell into an 0-2 hole, however they were able to overcome it as they denied the Owls (3-12, 0-12) their first Sun Belt win of the year.

The 3-2 win moves the Trojans to 4-2 this season in five-set matches, compared to just a 1-4 record last season.  The win also gives the Trojans 15 wins for the first time since 2007 when they went 16-17.