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Eagle Volleyball Heads to Evansville to Face Southern Indiana

10/8/2026 11:00:00 AM

By: Dean Hardin, Athletic Media Relations
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Morehead, Ky.-- The Morehead State volleyball team hits the road for the second straight weekend this week as the Eagles travel to Evansville, Indiana to face off with Southern Indiana in a two match Ohio Valley Conference series.
 
Friday's first serve in Liberty Arena is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. ET. Saturday's start is scheduled for 3:00 p.m. ET. Friday's match is scheduled to be aired on ESPN+. There is no broadcast for Saturday's match. 
 
RECORDS/STREAK

Morehead State                          6-8, 2-2 OVC/ W2
Southern Indiana                        6-8, 1-1 OVC/ W1
    
SERIES HISTORY

Record vs. USI                             52-14
Streak                                            W5
Last Meeting                                W, 3-1 (25-21, 25-27, 25-22, 25-21) 11/24/25 in Charleston, Ill.
First Meeting                                W, 3-0, (15-11, 15-4, 15-10) 10/11/83 in Evansville, Ind. (NS).
Record in Morehead                    4-0
Record in Martin                          4-0
Neutral Sites                                 3-1

NOTABLES
 
  • Morehead State ranks fourth in the OVC heading into the weekend with 599 kills (11.98 kills per set). The Eagles rank fourth in the conference with a .192 hitting percentage. MSU ranks fifth in the OVC allowing a .229 opponent hitting percentage.
  • The Eagles topped the OVC in 2025 with 193 service aces averaging 1.80 aces per set. Amelia Nott smacked 44 aces, averaging 0.41 aces per set. She ranked third in the OVC last fall, and her career tally of 135 service aces is the second-most in program history in the modern era.
  • Heading into the weekend, the Eagles are sixth in the OVC with 76 aces on the season, averaging 1.52 aces per set. Senior Amelia Nott leads the Eagles with 20 aces ranking third in the OVC. Last Saturday at UT Martin, she smacked four aces, setting a season high and just one off her career high. Freshman Ella Warrick ranks fourth in the OVC with 19 service aces.  
  • Morehead State leads the Ohio Valley Conference with 103.5 total team blocks, averaging 1.92 blocks per set. Freshman Haidyn Carter leads the Eagles and ranks third in the OVC with 44 total blocks averaging 0.96 blocks per set. Nott ranks T-8 in the OVC with 41 total blocks.
  • Senior outside hitter Hollan Everett leads the Ohio Valley Conference with 191 kills heading into the weekend, averaging 4.06 kills per set. That ranks 37th nationally in NCAA Division I. Last season, Everett was a Second-Team All-OVC selection after smacking 335 kills while posting a .213 hitting percentage and adding 62 total blocks, including 21 block solos.
  • Everett was named the OVC Offensive Player of the Week on Monday for her play last weekend at UT Martin. On Friday, she tied her season high with 21 kills and capped off the weekend Saturday with a career-high 24 terminations and posted a .316 hitting percentage. It was her second weekly award this season.
  • Senior setter Sydney Sennett was an All-OVC First Team selection last season after posting 1,089 assists in the 2025 campaign, which ranks as the eighth-highest season total in the modern era at MSU. Her 10.18 assists per set rate ranked second in the Ohio Valley Conference.
  • Sennett has 2,300 career assists, which ranks fourth in program history for the modern, 25-point rally scoring era. Her 5.56 assists per set rate currently ranks fifth in the OVC.
  • Senior Amelia Nott has smacked 134 kills this season, averaging 2.68 kills per set, ranking third on the team. She has a .350 hitting percentage, which ranks second in the OVC. Her career .298 hitting percentage is the highest in the Morehead State record book for the modern era.
  • Freshman Ella Warrick has slammed 144 kills to date, averaging 2.88 kills per set, which ranks second on the club and 10th in the Ohio Valley Conference.
  • Warrick was named the OVC Freshman of the Week for the second time this season on Monday for her play last weekend at UT Martin.  She smacked 24 kills in the two matches, posting her fifth double-double of the season Friday with 11 kills and a season-high 16 digs.
  • Freshman Haidyn Carter has been solid at the net for the Eagles. Last weekend she piled up 11 total blocks against UT Martin, tying her career high with six block assists last Friday.
  • Senior Courtney Fitzgerald joined the 1,000-dig club in the opening weekend of the season against Fairfield. She became the 30th Eagle to amass over 1,000 digs. Heading into play this week, she ranks sixth MSU record book in the modern era with 1,166 digs. 
 
SCOUTING THE SCREAMING EAGLES
 
  • Southern Indiana is coached by Jeffrey Aucoin, who is in his fourth season with the program. Heading into the weekend, Aucoin has a record of 50-58 at USI.
  • USI ranks third in the OVC statistically in kills (690, 12.32 kills per set). The Screaming Eagles rank second in the conference with 98 service aces this season, averaging 1.75 aces per set. USI's Aspen Jankowski leads the OVC with 24 aces on the season. USI is solid defensively, leading the OVC in digs averaging 15.21 digs per set and ranking third in the conference with 102 total team blocks posting a 1.82 blocks per set average.
  • The Screaming Eagle attack is spearheaded by senior Ashby Willis, who ranks second in the OVC with 221 kills averaging 3.95 kills per set. Willis is also dangerous from the service line: she is statistically tied for fifth in the OVC with 21 service aces (0.38 aces/set). Last season, Willis was an All-OVC First Team selection after slugging 428 kills (third in the OVC) and posting a .200 hitting percentage.
  • Willis also gets it done defensively: she is eighth in the OVC with 177 digs, averaging 3.16 digs per set.
  • USI's sophomore setter Aysa Thomas is second in the OVC with 531 assists, averaging 9.48 assists per set. Last season, she was the Ohio Valley Conference Freshman of the Year and an All-OVC Second Team selection after piling up 1,125 assists averaging 9.30 assists per set.


EAGLE MILESTONE WATCH
 
  • Hollan Everett became the 23rd member of the 1,000-kill club at Morehead State last weekend at UT Martin. With 1,032 career kills, she ranks seventh in the MSU record book for the modern era (2008-present).
  • Everett needs 67 kills to pass Kaitlin Craven (2008-10) for 6th in the Eagle record book for the modern era. 
  • Amelia Nott has posted 296 career block assists, four shy of joining just six others with 300 career block assists in the MSU record book for the modern era. Her 329 career total blocks tally ranks seventh in the Eagle record book for the modern era.
  • Courtney Fitzgerald has posted 1,166 career digs. She needs 34 to become the fifth Eagle to reach the 1,200-dig milestone in the modern era.
 

 
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