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MOREHEAD, Ky. -- Morehead State volleyball has won three consecutive matches, including Wednesday's victory at Tennessee Tech, and the Eagles will look to make it five in a row when they venture to Nashville to face Tennessee State this weekend.

The Eagles and Tigers face off at Kean Hall Friday at 7 p.m. ET and Saturday at 3 p.m.

The matches will be live on ESPN+. After opening with a blistering 8-1 start, TSU has dropped four of its first five league matches.

SERIES RECORD
Morehead State leads 58-13 | MOR has won 7 straight | Last Meeting (3/1/21 - MOR won 3-0 in Morehead)

2021 RECORDS
MOR: 7-9 (3-2 OVC) | TSU: 9-5 (1-4 OVC)

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- The series with TSU has been streaky since 2015. After the Tigers won four straight from 2015-17, MSU has reeled off seven consecutive wins in the series to push the overall lead to 58-13. Morehead State and TSU first played in 1987 with MSU winning the first 20 matches in the series until 1996. By 2003, MSU had a 34-1 lead in the series.

- Grad student Olivia Lohmeier is now tied with former all-star Dayle Hamontree for second place in career kills at Morehead State. Lohmeier's 10 kills at Tennessee Tech pushed her to 1,772 career spikes. She needs just three more now this weekend to move into the top five in career kills in OVC history.

- After not reaching double-digit team blocks in the first 13 matches, the Eagles have turned up the intensity at the net with 39 blocks in the last three matches. That was a season-high 14 against Murray State last weekend, followed by 13 the next day and 12 on Wednesday in the win over Tech. The Eagles rank eighth in the OVC in blocks but second in total blocks (50) in matches just against league teams.

- In OVC matches, the Eagles find themselves ranked second in the conference in aces (31) and digs per set (18.3).

- Freshman middle McKenzee Wagener has recorded at least one block in eight straight matches and only has two matches in 16 this year without at least one block. In her last three matches, the 6-foot-5 Blue Ash, Ohio, native has 22 rejections, including a season-high nine against Murray State and Tennessee Tech.

- Freshman hitter Maycie Welborn notched a career-best match at Tennessee Tech with 12 kills on a .321 attack percentage. She took a career-high 28 swings. In her last two matches, she has 16 kills and just four errors, plus nine blocks.

- Junior libero Allison Whitten has 124 digs (5.9 per set) just in the last five matches, including a career-high 40 versus Murray State. According to NCAA stats, there were only six 40-dig matches ever in a three-set match prior to this season. Now there have been three more just this fall, including Whitten. Whitten's effort coincided with Murray State's Becca Fernandez also eclipsing the 40-dig mark in the same match.

- Whitten now has 1,550 career digs, good enough for eighth place in program history.

- Sophomore outside Abby Hulsman has reached double-digit kills in seven of the last eight matches and 12 out of 16 matches this season.