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MOREHEAD, Ky. -- Morehead State volleyball will honors its seniors and look to stay atop the Ohio Valley Conference race this weekend when Belmont visits. The Eagles and Bruins match up Friday at 6 p.m. ET and Saturday at 2 p.m.

Both matches will air on ESPN+ with Jordan Adams calling Friday's action and Jared Stacy on the mic for Saturday.

Saturday will serve as senior day as four members of the squad will be in attendance for their final regular-season matches in Johnson Arena - Olivia Lohmeier, Taylor Hodges, Mia Swearingen and Raegan Alexander.

2021 RECORDS
MOR: 16-9 (12-2 OVC) | BEL: 9-15 (7-7 OVC)

SERIES RECORD
Morehead State leads 12-9 | Morehead State has won 6 straight | Last Meeting (3/14/21 - MOR won 3-0 in Morehead)

NOTABLE

- The Morehead State and Belmont series and been one of streaks. Currently the Eagles lead the all-time matchups 12-9 and have won six consecutive since 2018. Prior to that Belmont won eight of the nine contests during the 2014-17 seasons. MSU won five of the first six from 2000-2013. Belmont joined the OVC in 2012.

- Olivia Lohmeier needs just seven more kills to become only the fourth player in Ohio Valley Conference history with at least 1,900 career kills. Lohmeier, who holds the MSU rally era scoring record for kills, is second all-time at MSU behind Lauren Mackey Rust. Rust's 2,293 kills from 1995-98 leads all OVC players.

- Senior Taylor Hodges leads MSU with 26 service aces in 2021, the same number she had in the spring 2021 season. Hodges needs just seven more aces to reach 100 for her career, which would rank her in the top 20 all-time in program history.

- Sophomore setter Bridget Bessler, a First-Team All-OVC pick in the spring, ranks second in the OVC with 10.5 assists per set and 768 total assists. With 2.691 career assists she ranks seventh in program history. 

- In matches against league competition only, the Eagles ranks FIRST in aces, digs, assists and opponent hitting percentage. MSU's league brethren only manage to hit .139 against the Eagles.

- Freshman middle McKenzee Wagener has recorded at least one block in 23 of the Eagles' 25 matches and has had at least two rejections in 22 of the 25 matches. In fact, in the Eagles' 12-match winning streak she has had multiple blocks in all 12.

- Defensive and serving specialist Olivia Montelisciani became the program's 28th member of the 1,000-career dig club last weekend vs. SIUE. She joins teammate Allison Whitten as two members of the same team with 1,000+ digs. Morehead State now has an active member of the 1,000-kill (Lohmeier), 1,000-dig (Whitten, Montelisciani) and 1,000-assist clubs (Bessler) on the same roster.

- Looking ahead, Morehead State would need to win three more matches to claim at least a share of the OVC regular season title. Should MSU go 3-1 in its final four, it would force Austin Peay to win all five remaining to then tie the Eagles. Austin Peay does hold the tiebreaker over MSU, having defeated MSU twice to open OVC play. If the Eagles win their final four, they will be guaranteed a solo regular-season title and the right to host the conference tournament Nov. 19-21.