Game Day

BALTIMORE, Md. (Nov. 13, 2019)-The Morgan State volleyball team will look to extend its season-long seven-match winning streak when it travels to Princess Anne, Md. to visit Maryland Eastern Shore for a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) match on Friday, Nov. 15. First serve is at 6 p.m. at the Hytche Athletic Center.
 
Morgan State (15-11, 9-4 MEAC) earned sole position of second in the MEAC Northern Division standings, following its straight sets victory over rival Coppin State (11/8). The victory marked the first season series sweep for the first time since 2016.
 
Tylar Roberson hit for a match-high .474, finishing with 10 kills and picked up seven digs and Zoe McBride tallied a match-high 18 kills and had an attack percentage of .467. Roi Wallace had a match-high 37 assists to go with five digs and Jennevy Santos finished with a match-high 12 digs. Mykaela Ross tallied five kills, while Sarah Brown and Jasmin Perry added four and three kills, respectively.
 
The Lady Bears finished the match with 41 kills, while hitting .370 as a team. Morgan State had nine service aces with McBride recording a match-high three aces. Wallace, Sophie Pajevic and Jasmin Hubbard each had two.
 
Maryland Eastern Shore (11-17, 6-7 MEAC) is coming off a 3-0 loss at Howard on Sunday. The defeat ended the Hawks season-long three-match winning streak.
 
Alexis Lee posted a team-high 12 kills and Ilina Spasova added seven. Tijana Korosec finished with 15 assists and Stella Johnson recorded nine digs to lead the Hawks.
 
SERIES RECORD: Morgan State leads the all-time series, 43-23. The Lady Bears won this season's first meeting over the Hawks, 3-2 in Baltimore (9/27).
 
NEXT UP: Morgan State will close out the regular season on Sunday, Nov. 17 when it takes on Delaware State at 2 p.m. at Memorial Hall.
 
MCBRIDE, WALLACE EARN SIXTH MEAC WEEKLY HONOR: Zoe McBride was named MEAC Co-Player of the Week, while Roi Wallace was named MEAC Setter of the Week by the league office (Nov, 11). It was the sixth weekly honor for both. McBride hit .467, while recording 18 kills, four digs, three service aces and three blocks in the win at Coppin State (11/8). Wallace averaged 12.3 assists per set against Coppin State. She finished with a match-high 37 assists, five digs and two service aces in the win.
 
BOZIER ONE WIN SHY OF NO. 470: Morgan State head coach Ramona Riley-Bozier is one coaching victory shy of reaching No. 470. A native of Kansas City, Mo., Riley-Bozier, earned career victory No. 469, following a sweep of crosstown rival Coppin State (11/8). She entered the season with 454 career victories. Riley-Bozier, who is the all-time winningest coach at Morgan State in any sport with 469 career victories as the volleyball coach, is also the softball program's all-time career leader with 161 victories in nine seasons at the helm. Riley-Bozier began 2019 ranked 33rd in career wins among active coaches on the NCAA's Division I coaching list.
 
MAKE IT A DOUBLE: Sophomore Zoe McBride has tallied a career-best 15 double-doubles this season, while junior Tylar Roberson has 10 and Roi Wallace has totaled four.
 
AMONG THE LEAGUE'S BEST: Roi Wallace leads the MEAC in assists with 9.98 per set, while Zoe McBride leads the conference in kills at 4.90 per set and Jennevy Santos leads the league in digs with 4.39 per set. Wallace ranks second in service aces (0.51), Tylar Roberson ranks fifth in kills (3.36 per set) and McBride is 10^th in hitting percentage (.238). As a team the Lady Bears lead the MEAC in opponent hitting percentage (.181), while ranking second in assists (11.35), kills (12.24) and digs (15.08). Morgan State also ranks fourth in hitting percentage at .192.
 
PROTECTING HOME: Morgan State finished the 2019 home slate with a 9-3 mark, following its sweep of Norfolk State in the Hill Field House finale on Senior Day (11/3). The nine home victories are the most since the 2006 campaign, when that team went 9-0.
 
THIS TIME IT COUNTS: When Morgan State took on North Carolina Central (10/4) it marked the first time since 2006 that a contest against a MEAC Southern Division opponent counted toward the MEAC's regular season standings. 2006 was the last time the MEAC held its annual MEAC Round-Up which saw the two divisions square off against each other. The league did away with the round-up in 2007 and until this season, any cross divisional play counted as a non-conference match. The Lady Bears will take on the entire MEAC Southern Division, including North Carolina A&T (10/6), at Bethune-Cookman (10/18), at Florida A&M (10/20) and South Carolina State (10/25).  
 
WALLACE BECOMES THIRD TO REACH 3,000 ASSISTS: Roi Wallace became the third Lady Bear in school history to reach 3,000 career assists, when the Lady Bears defeated Binghamton (3-2) in the finale of the Hoya Invitational (9/21). Wallace, who finished the match with 55 assists, reached the 3,000-plateau when her 46th assist of the match resulted in a kill by Tylar Roberson to bring the Lady Bears within a point at (21-20) in the fourth set. Wallace entered the season third on the Morgan State charts with a total of 2,536 career assists. She has currently totaled a season-best 968 assists this season to give her 3,504 for her career.
 
HUBBARD MOVES INTO FOURTH ALL-TIME IN DIGS: Senior Jasmin Hubbard picked up two digs in the win over North Carolina Central (10/4) to give her 1,002 career digs and move her past former Lady Bear Dina Beamon (1,000 digs from 2008-10) for fourth-place all-time on the Morgan State charts. Hubbard recorded four digs in the previous match against Delaware State (9/29) to give her exactly 1,000 digs for her career. The Reno, Nevada native entered the 2019 campaign with 974 career digs and was ranked sixth.
  
TAKE FIVE: Prior to the North Carolina Central match (10/4), the Lady Bears played in three consecutive five-set matches and a total of six this season. Morgan State, which is 5-2 in five-set contests this season, had won two straight five-set contests before its loss to Delaware State (9/29).
 
BEST START EVER: The Morgan State volleyball team's 5-1 mark was its best start in school history through the first six matches, after going 2-1 in the Knights Fall Classic (Sept. 6-7). Twice the program has began a season with a 4-2 record (1982, 94). 
 
SAYING GOODBYE: Morgan State said goodbye to its seniors, Jasmin Hubbard and Roi Wallace prior to its regular season finale 'Senior Day' match against Norfolk State on Nov. 3 at Hill Field House. The Lady Bears would win in three sets.
 
2019 MEAC CHAMPIONSHIP: This year's 2019 MEAC volleyball championship will take place November 22-24 in Washington, D.C. at Howard University's Burr Gymnasium.