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Match #21
Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018 | 3 p.m.
Maryland Eastern Shore (6-12, 3-1 MEAC) at Morgan State (11-9, 3-1 MEAC)
Baltimore, Md. | Hill Field House

BALTIMORE, Md. (Oct. 13, 2018)-The Morgan State Lady Bears put their season-long three-match winning streak on the line this Sunday, when they host the Hawks of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (MDES). First serve is at 3 p.m. at Hill Field House, with the winner taking sole position of second place in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Northern Division. Sunday's contest will also be Girl Scouts Day.
 
Morgan State (11-9, 3-1 MEAC), which is also in the midst of an eight-match home winning streak dating back to last season, is coming off a 3-0 (25-17, 28-26, 25-18) sweep of visiting Delaware State on Friday.
 
Kalysia Bates recorded a match-high 17 kills to lead Morgan State. Bates would finish the night with just one error on 25 attempts for a match-high hitting percentage of .640, as Morgan State won its 14th straight contest over Delaware State and now leads the all-time series, 46-14.
 
Monette Daniels added nine kills, while Cristen Coryatt and Zoe McBride each had eight kills. Coryatt would lead the Lady Bears with 16 digs and Jasmin Hubbard totaled 10. Roi Wallace recorded a double-double with a match-best 38 assists and 11 digs.
 
The Lady Bears, who have reached double-digit wins for the first time since 2015 (13-15), finished the contest with 47 kills and an attack percentage of .327. Morgan State would record double-digit kills in all three sets, including a match-high 16 kills in both Set 1 and Set 2.
 
The Lady Bears have been paced by Coryatt with 3.75 kills per contest and 2.59 digs per set. Zoe McBride is adding 3.20 kills and 2.31 digs to go with a team-leading 28 service aces. Roi Wallace leads the team with 10.14 assists per set and is adding 2.38 dps and a team-leading 28 service aces. Jasmin Hubbard leads the Lady Bears with 3.96 dps, while Bates has a team-leading 62 blocks.
 
MDES (6-12, 3-1 MEAC) overcame a 2-0 deficit to defeat host Coppin State, 3-2 (18-25, 23-25, 25-21, 26-24, 15-12) on Friday and remain tied with Morgan State for second in the league standings
 
Lucia Babic led the Hawks with 17 kills, while Rachel Kayongo and Sola Okesanjo each added 12 and 11 kills. Koya Sowells led MDES with a match-high 25 digs and Ivana Blazevic had a team-leading 36 assists.
 
Babic is averaging 3.70 kills per set to lead the Hawks, while Kayongo is averaging 2.42 kills per contest. Babic also leads the team in service aces with 25, while Blazevic is recording 8.20 assists per set. Sowells is totaling 2.95 digs per set. Mauri Carver leads the Hawks in blocks with 36 and Babic has 33 blocks on the season.
 
ALL-TIME SERIES AGAINST MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE: Morgan State leads the all-time series, 42-22. However, Maryland Eastern Shore has won the last four meetings. Morgan State's last win over the Hawks was a 3-1 victory on Oct. 30, 2015 in Princess Anne, Md.
 
NEXT UP: The Lady Bears will play close out their non-conference schedule on Wednesday, Oct. 17 when they welcome the Eagles of American to Hill Field House. The match will get underway at 7 p.m.
 
BOZIER REACHES 450 VICTORIES: Morgan State head coach Ramona Riley-Bozier entered the 2018 season needing nine more wins to reach career victory No. 450. On Sunday, Sept. 30, she picked up career milestone victory No. 450, following a 3-1 win at Norfolk State. Riley-Bozier, who is the all-time winningest coach at Morgan State in any sport with 452 career victories as the volleyball coach, is also the softball program's all-time career leader with 161 victories in the nine seasons she served as head coach.
 
DANIELS NAMED MEAC CO-DEFENSIVE SPECIALIST OF THE WEEK: Monette Daniels was named MEAC Co-Defensive Specialist of the Week on Monday, Oct. 1, as announced by the conference office. A native of Detroit, Mich., Daniels totaled nine blocks, three digs and 12 kills, while hitting .300 to lead Morgan State to a 1-1 weekend. Daniels would finish out the weekend strong, as she tied her career high for blocks in a single match with eight, while adding two service aces, three digs and eight kills for a .316 hitting percentage in the win at Norfolk State (9/30).
 
MORGAN SURPASSES 2017 WIN TOTAL: The Lady Bears had a total of eight wins all of last season. This season, Morgan State has a total of 11 victories, including eight non-conference wins. With its 3-1 victory at Norfolk State (9/30), Morgan State picked up its ninth victory of 2018, to surpass last season's total.
 
TRACKING WALLACE: Roi Wallace tallied 38 assists in the win against Delaware State (10/12), giving her 2,331 career assists thus far, which ranks third on the Morgan State charts. She set a career-high 60 assists earlier this season in a win over Saint Peter's (8/29).
 
HUBBARD CLOSING IN ON 1,000 DIGS: Junior libero Jasmin Hubbard recorded 10 digs against Delaware State (10/12), giving her 870 career digs. Hubbard is now 130 digs away from reaching the 1,000-digs plateau.
 
CORYATT, BATES NAMED TO CHARM CITY CLASSIC TEAM: Senior Cristen Coryatt and sophomore Kalysia Bates were named to the Charm City Classic All-Tournament team (9/23). A native of Sugar Land, Texas, Coryatt would hit for .279, while totaling 23 kills, 14 digs and four aces in five sets played. The 5-9 outside hitter finished with a match-high 21 kills, a .321 hitting percentage, nine digs and two aces in a four-set win over North Carolina A&T (9/21). Bates finished with nine total blocks, including three solo, 16 kills, seven digs and three aces. A native of Phenix, Ala., Bates recorded five blocks, one solo and added four digs, eight kills and an ace in a four-set victory over North Carolina A&T. She added five blocks, including two solo to go with three digs, two aces, eight kills and hit for .353 in the finale over the Lady Bulldogs.
 
MORGAN PICKED THIRD IN MEAC NORTH: Morgan State was picked to finish third in the northern division of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) preseason poll, as voted by the league's head coaches and sports information directors. Last year, the Lady Bears were picked to finish third and went 8-18 overall, 7-5 in the MEAC good for a third-place finish.
 
BOZIER ENTERS 31ST SEASON: Morgan State head coach Ramona Riley-Bozier is in the midst of her 31st season at the helm of the Lady Bear program. The all-time winningest coach at Morgan State (452), Riley-Bozier guided the Lady Bears to 88 consecutive MEAC Northern Division wins between 1994-2003. She has led MSU to five MEAC Championships, three NCAA Tournament appearances and earned MEAC Coach of the Year honors five times. Bozier also coached the softball team at MSU for nine seasons and in 1999 led the team to its only MEAC title game appearance. A native of Kansas City, Mo., Bozier, is a graduate of Morgan State, where she was a two-sport start in volleyball and track. She is one of 11 players in the history of the program to have registered 1,000 career kills. On the track, Bozier was a three-time All-American and one of the top triple jumpers at Morgan. She still holds the UMBC meet record in the 60 meter dash (1983) and ran the first leg of the 4X100 relay, which in 1986 set the school record in a time of 44.47 seconds, which also still stands. That squad would also win the Penn Relays and finished second that year at the Division I National Championships. Bozier was inducted into the Morgan State Hall of Fame in 2003.
 
UNBEATEN STREAKS STILL INTACT: Morgan State entered the season unbeaten against four of its opponents and remained that way, following victories over Niagara (13-0), Prairie View A&M (2-0), Jackson State (2-0) and South Carolina State (22-0). The Lady Bears first faced Niagara on Aug. 31 in the Golden Flashes Classic and swept the Purple Eagles. Morgan State then met both Prairie View A&M and Jackson State in the New Orleans Tournament on Sept. 7 and swept the Panthers, before needing five sets to defeat the Jackson State Tigers. Last week Morgan State played host to South Carolina State on Sept. 22 in the finale of the Charm City Classic and swept the Lady Bulldogs.
 
CAPTAINS ANNOUNCED: Seniors Monette Daniels and Cristen Coryatt were named as the 2018 captains, while juniors Roi Wallace and Jasmin Hubbard were named as co-captains.
 
FOUR NAMED TO MEAC ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM: Morgan State had four players named to the 2017 MEAC Volleyball All-Academic Team, based on their academic success during the 2016-17 school year. Two of the four recognized (Jasmin Hubbard and Roi Wallace) return for the 2018 season. Kheanna Landrum and Wallace were also named to the MEAC Commissioner's All-Academic Team for maintaining a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better during the 2017-18 academic year.
 
WELCOME TO THE CAVE: The Lady Bears welcome the addition of seven newcomers to the 2018 squad, six of which are freshman and one sophomore transfer. Those newcomers are freshmen Sara Brown (Bowie, Md.), Nia Smith (Odenton, Md.), Zoe McBride (Ridgefield, Wash.), Morgan Eugene (Brandywine, Md.), Jasmin Perry (Bowie, Md.) and Brook Adams (Phoenix, Ariz.) along with sophomore transfer Kalysia Bates (Phenix, Ala.).
 
SAYING GOODBYE: Morgan State will say goodbye to four seniors, Monette Daniels, Kheanna Landrum, Deja Lester and Cristen Coryatt prior to its regular season finale 'Senior Day' match against crosstown rival Coppin State on Nov. 4 at Hill Field House.
 
2018 MEAC CHAMPIONSHIP: This year's 2018 MEAC volleyball championship will take place November 16-18 in Washington, D.C. at Burr Gymnasium on the campus of the Howard University.