TOLEDO, Ohio – The Toledo women's volleyball team begins Mid-American Conference play this weekend at Eastern Michigan. The Rockets (7-4) and Eagles (1-11) will face off on Thursday and Friday in Ypsilanti.
Both matches will start at 6:00 p.m. Thursday's contest will be streamed live on ESPN+ and Friday's match will be streamed live on ESPN3.
Last Time Out
The Rockets ended non-conference play with a 2-0 showing at the Toledo Challenge, posting a pair of three-set sweeps against Eastern Illinois and Purdue Fort Wayne.
On Friday, Toledo led for nearly the entire match and held Eastern Illinois to a .000 attack percentage. The Rockets hit .287 and tallied nine blocks in the three-set sweep. Rhyenne Filisi registered a team-best five blocks and Olivia Vance was close behind with four. Vance added seven kills and hit .583, only trailing Taylor Alt (nine) and Jada Bouyer (eight) in terminations.
In Saturday's contest, UT won the first two sets without much of a struggle from the Mastodons, but had to overcome a late deficit in the third set to complete the sweep. Rhyenne Filisi and Taylor Alt led the way with nine kills apiece. Filisi also tallied three blocks, one behind Olivia Vance (four) for the most on the team.
Rocket Notes
- Taylor Alt leads the MAC in scoring (4.26 points/set) and kills (3.75/set). One of the most prolific outside hitters in the country, she ranks 10th among active players in career kills/set (3.94).
- Two of the four highest single-match kill totals by a MAC player this season have come from Alt. She tallied 26 kills last Saturday against Austin Peay and 25 during opening weekend against CSU Bakersfield.
- Alt has 910 kills entering the weekend, just 90 away from 1,000 for her career.
- Ryann Jaqua ranks fifth in the MAC in digs (4.49/set) and is one of five players to be averaging at least four digs per set.
- Jaqua's 1,302 career digs are third-most among all MAC players behind Kent State's Erin Gardner (1,849) and Bowling Green's Julia Walz (1,774).
- Toledo ranks third in the MAC in blocks (2.07/set) and opponent attack percentage (.183).
About Eastern Michigan
Eastern Michigan enters the weekend with a 1-11 record, its lone win coming last weekend against Radford. The Eagles' struggles have not been for lack of trying, as six of their 11 losses have gone five sets. Freshman Emma McMahon leads EMU in digs (3.82/set) while senior Samantha Basham leads the team in kills (2.18/set).
