MATCH 22
Wright State (14-6 / 6-2 #HLVB) vs. RMU (9-12 / 2-7 #HLVB)
Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021  • 6:00 p.m.
UPMC Events Center • Moon Township, Pa.
 
Can You Dig It?
 
- The RMU volleyball team returns home to the UPMC Events Center Tuesday to host Wright State in a midweek match for a 6:00 p.m. first serve.
 
- The Colonials are coming off an 0-3 road trip, dropping 3-0 decisions at Milwaukee (10/14), Green Bay (10/15) and UIC (10/17).
 
- Against the Panthers, fifth-year middle blocker Emma Granger established a new RMU career record for total blocks, as her first of the match pushed her total to 464. That broke the old mark of 463, which was held by former Colonial Becky (2011-14) with 463. Granger enters Tuesday's match at home with 468 career total blocks to her credit.
 
- Granger and sophomore Emma Brown combined for 18 kills against Phoenix, and each failed to record an attack error. The duo combined for 31 total attempts, coming for a hitting percentage of .581.
 
 - Senior outside hitter Alyssa Hudak led RMU against the Flames, finishing with seven kills on 13 total attempts without an attack error for a hitting percentage of .538.
 
- RMU enters action this week leading the Horizon League in service aces with an average of 1.97 per set. In 78 sets during the 2021 campaign, the Colonials have racked up 154 service aces, one more than Green Bay (153), who has played 79 sets and averages 1.94.
 
- Individually, fifth-year middle blocker Emma Granger paces #HLVB in service aces and blocks with per set averages of 0.57 and 1.07, respectively. She also ranks fourth in the circuit in attack percentage (.286).
 
- Also ranking in the top 10 for the Colonials in the Horizon League for service aces is freshman Ashleigh Wallin (0.34), who ranks eighth, and senior Nikolette Zanolli (0.32), who sits 10th.
 
- RMU takes to the road for five consecutive matches after hosting the Raiders Tuesday, beginning Saturday, Oct. 23, with a 2:00 p.m. first serve at Oakland. The Colonials will also visit Cleveland State (10/24), Purdue Fort Wayne (10/29), IUPUI (10/30) and Youngstown State (11/5) as part of its trip.
 
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The All-Time Series (Wright State) – The Colonials and Raiders meet for the fifth time Tuesday, with Wright State having won each of the previous four meetings between the two programs in an all-time series that dates back to 2008. During the 2020 spring season, the Raiders earned a 3-1 win and a 3-0 triumph over the Colonials at the UPMC Events Center in the first two meetings between the two opponents as conference foes.
 
Record Breaker – Emma Granger has etched her name in RMU volleyball lore in 2021, and the fifth-year middle blocker added more records to her mantle during the three-match road swing. In addition to becoming the program's all-time leader for total blocks (468), Granger is also the first student-athlete for RMU to reach 400 block assists. That broke the mark of 397 also held by Jay. Granger enters Tuesday's match against Wright State at the UPMC Events Center as the program's all-time leader in service aces (228), block assists (400) and total blocks (68) while ranking fourth in the attack percentage (.324) and ninth in solo blocks (68).
 
Dig Me Out – Senior Nikolette Zanolli has been a consistent presence for the Colonials on defense in recent weeks, as the libero enters RMU's home tilt with Wright State Tuesday just eight digs shy of becoming the 13th student-athlete in school history to eclipse 1,000 career digs. She would be the first to reach the threshold since Taylor Lord (2015-18) during the 2017 season.
 
Home Cooking – RMU owns a record of 3-5 (.375) in matches at the UPMC Events Center during the 2021 season and has been led at home by fifth-year middle blocker Emma Granger. She is one of just two Colonials to play in all 31 sets at home this year, joining freshman setter Ashleigh Wallin, and paces RMU in home matches with 79 kills (2.55 per set) and a .307 attack percentage. She also owns a team-high 116 points at home and has recorded 39 total blocks, including seven solo. As a team, RMU owns a .191 hitting percentage at home, with graduate student Alyson Londot adding 70 kills and a .166 attack percentage and sophomore Abby Ryan having recorded 66 kills and a .126 hitting percentage.

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