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Morgan State Volleyball Returns Home To Host Maryland Eastern Shore – Morgan State University Athletics
Match 21 (MEAC Contest)
Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022
Morgan State (2-18, 1-5 MEAC) vs. Maryland Jap Shore (4-13, 2-4 MEAC)
Baltimore, Md. | Hill Subject Home | 1 p.m.
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BALTIMORE, Md. (Oct. 15, 2022)–The Girl Bears’ volleyball workforce appears to be like to get again on monitor this Sunday, Oct. 16 as they shut out the primary half of the Mid-Jap Athletic Convention (MEAC) slate after they welcome Maryland Jap Shore to Hill Subject Home at 1 p.m. for Youth Day at Morgan State.
BEAR CLAWS: Morgan State (2-18, 1-5 MEAC) is coming off a 3-0 highway loss at Delaware State on Friday. Madison Grace led Morgan State with eight kills and Justyus Jackson completed with six. Tyasia McDuffie had a team-high eight digs, whereas Mackenzie Jefferson and Alyssa Sampson every had seven. Trinity Carruthers recorded 11 assists and Jefferson added 10. The Girl Bears held a 4.0-2.0 blocking benefit over Delaware State. Jackson led the way in which with three block assists and Grace added two with one solo.
HAWK TALONS: Maryland Jap Shore (4-13, 2-4 MEAC) enters Sunday’s contest coming off a 3-1 dwelling loss to Coppin State on Friday. The loss ended a two-match profitable streak for the Hawks, who have been coming off a profitable journey to the Carolinas with wins at South Carolina State and North Carolina Central. Sydney Morris led MDES with 10 kills, whereas Isil Yilmaz completed with a match-high 17 digs. Romina Vacca recorded 15 assists and Sophia Chacon had 13 assists. Yilmaz and Nkemjika Ikemefuna every tallied three service aces apiece.
SERIES NOTES: Morgan State leads the all-time collection, 45-26 over Maryland Jap Shore. The Girl Bears gained this season’s first assembly, 3-2 within the opener of the George Mason Invitational (Sept. 16) in Fairfax, Va. The win, which was a non-conference contest, was the Girl Bears’ first of the season and ended a three-match shedding streak to the Hawks.
LAST WHISTLE: Makila Billingsley tied a career-high 16 kills and Justyus Jackson added 10 kills to assist Morgan State to its first win of the season with a 3-2 (25-23, 23-25, 19-25, 25-18, 16-14) come-from-behind non-conference win over Maryland Jap Shore within the opener of the George Mason Invitational in Fairfax, Va. (9/16). The win ended a 15-match shedding skid relationship again to final season, together with an 0-11 begin this season. It was additionally the primary collegiate teaching victory for Morgan State head coach Xiomara Ortiz.
Alyssa Sampson recorded a match-best 12 digs, whereas serving up a career- and match-high seven aces. Mackenzie Jefferson totaled 24 assists, 4 aces and 5 digs. Behind Jackson’s career- and match-high seven mixed blocks, together with a solo, the Girl Bears held a 13-10 blocking benefit over MDES. Jourdan Web page (eight kills, 5 digs, two aces) and Billingsley every added 4 blocks, together with a solo apiece.
The Hawks have been led by Derionah Abner, who completed with 16 kills, whereas Nkemjika Ikemefuna added 13. Sophia Chacon tallied a double-double with a match-high 27 assists and 11 digs. Charlize Williams, who hit for a match-best .426 with eight kills, recorded a team-high 4 mixed blocks.
NEXT UP: Morgan State will start the second half of the MEAC schedule on the highway, when it travels to Durham, N.C. to face North Carolina Central on Friday, Oct. 21. First serve is at 6 p.m. Morgan State will then journey to Orangeburg, S.C. to go to the Bulldogs of South Carolina State on Sunday, Oct. 23 at 1 p.m.
HOMECOMING: Earlier than falling to Norfolk State (10/9), Morgan State entered its homecoming match towards Norfolk State using a four-match homecoming profitable streak and had a 4-2 file in homecoming contests because the 2010 season. All 4 of the Girl Bears wins have come by means of sweeps, whereas each losses got here to Maryland Jap Shore additionally in three units. Morgan State didn’t host homecoming matches in 2014, 15, 16, 18 and 19 resulting from scheduling, or in 2020, which the complete season was canceled resulting from Covid-19.
2022 – Misplaced to Norfolk State, 3-0
2021 – Defeated South Carolina State, 3-0
2020 – Season canceled resulting from Covid-19
2019 – No homecoming contest
2018 – No homecoming contest
2017 – Defeated Delaware State, 3-0
2016 – No homecoming contest
2015 – No homecoming contest
2014 – No homecoming contest
2013 – Defeated Delaware State, 3-0
2012 – Defeated Howard, 3-0
2011 – Misplaced to Maryland Jap Shore, 0-3
2010 – Misplaced to Maryland Jap Shore, 0-3
STILL PERFECT: Morgan State picked up its first MEAC win of the season, following a 3-0 defeat of visiting South Carolina State (9/25). The win was Morgan State’s 26th straight victory over the Girl Bulldogs in as many conferences. S.C. State is the lone MEAC opponent that Morgan State has by no means misplaced to in program historical past.
LET’S GO FIVE: Morgan State and North Carolina Central performed 5 units within the MEAC opener with the visiting Eagles defeating Morgan State 3-2. It was the second five-set contest this season for each groups. NCCU improved to 2-0 in 5 setters, whereas the Girl Bears fell to 1-1. Morgan’s first five-setter of the season was a 3-2 non-conference win over Maryland Jap Shore (9/16) on the George Mason Invitational.
FINALLY: After 14 consecutive contests away from dwelling to start out the season, Morgan State lastly performed in entrance of the house followers for the primary time in 2022, when it entertained North Carolina Central for its dwelling opener on Friday, Sept. 23 at 3 pm at Hill Subject Home. The match was additionally the MEAC season opener each groups.
WON AND COUNTING: First-year Morgan State head coach Xiomara Ortiz picked up her first collegiate teaching victory and first win at Morgan State, following a 3-2 come-from-behind victory over Maryland Jap Shore (9/16) within the opener of the George Mason Invitational. The victory additionally marked the primary win of the season for the Girl Bears, who additionally ended a 15-match shedding skid relationship again to final season.
JACKSON NAMED TO GMU INVITATIONAL ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM: Junior center blocker Justyus Jackson was named to the George Mason Invitational All-Match Workforce (9/17). Jackson completed the weekend hitting .289, whereas averaging 1.5 kills and 1.3 digs per set in three matches. The Davenport, Iowa native totaled 17kills, 13 mixed blocks, together with 5 solo, one dig and a service ace. She started the week with a season-high 10 kills and a career-high seven blocks, together with a solo in a five-set thriller towards Maryland Jap Shore to assist the Girl Bears seize their first win of the season. Jackson completed the weekend hitting .444 with 5 kills, 4 blocks and picked up her first service ace of the season within the finale towards George Mason.
BLOCK PARTY: Freshman Jadyn Perkins totaled a season-high and match-best eight mixed blocks, together with a solo block towards Radford (9/2) on the Towson Invitational. The Pittsburgh, Pa. native would whole 11 blocks through the weekend, giving her 15 on the season, earlier than struggling an damage. Justyus Jackson, who tallied a career-best seven blocks, together with a solo within the win over Maryland Jap Shore (9/16), has a team-high 43 blocks with 11 solos.
BILLINGSLEY NAMED TO CHARLOTTE INVITATIONAL TEAM: Makila Billingsley was named to the Charlotte Invitational All-Match Workforce (8/27) after main the workforce in kills with 2.67 per set, whereas totaling 24 kills, six digs and including three blocks in three begins over the weekend. A local of Plainfield, N.J., Billingsley started the season recording eight kills with an assault proportion of .316, whereas including two digs and a block at Charlotte. She added one other eight kills, two digs and a block towards Campbell. Billingsley ended the weekend hitting a match-best .333 and ending with eight kills, two digs and a block towards Wofford within the finale.
OPENING SERVE: Morgan State fell to 9-21 in season openers because the 1993 season, after falling within the season opener in three units at Charlotte (8/26). The Girl Bears’ final opening day victory was a 3-2 win at dwelling towards Seton Corridor within the opener of the Morgan/Towson Invitational (8/30/19).
ROAD WARRIORS: Morgan State started the season taking part in its first 14 contests, all of that are non-conference, away from Hill Subject Home. Morgan State did not play in entrance of the house crowd till Sept. 23 when it welcomes North Carolina Central for the MEAC and residential opener.
ORTIZ TAKES OVER THE HELM: On Might, 25, 2022, Xiomara Ortiz was introduced as the brand new head coach of the Morgan State volleyball program. Ortiz, who grew to become the seventh coach in program historical past, takes over for Ramona Riley-Bozier, who throughout her 34-year profession captured 9 MEAC common season titles, 4 outright MEAC Match titles, guided the Girl Bears to 3 NCAA Match appearances, whereas turning into the varsity’s all-time winningest coach in any sport with 481 victories. Ortiz involves Morgan after spending a 12 months because the assistant coach at Shippensburg College through the 2021 season and the earlier three seasons as an assistant coach at Lehigh College. A local of South Setauket, N.Y., Ortiz had a stellar four-year profession as a libero at Binghamton College, the place she set the varsity information for single-season digs (551) and profession digs (1,925) in 116 matches performed. As a freshman, she earned America East All-Rookie honors and was named to the All-America East Second Workforce as a sophomore. She was additionally a three-time member of the America East Honor Roll.
MORGAN PICKED SEVENTH IN MEAC: Morgan State was picked to complete seventh within the eight-team Mid-Jap Athletic Convention (MEAC) preseason ballot, as voted by the league’s head coaches and sports activities info administrators. Final season the Girl Bears have been picked to complete tied for fourth within the MEAC with Maryland Jap Shore and ended up seventh.
COLEMAN NAMED ASSISTANT COACH: Maegan Coleman will enter her first season as an assistant coach at Morgan State for the 2022 season. Coleman involves Morgan after spending the 2021 season as the top coach at Cheyney College. Previous to Cheyney, Coleman additionally had one-year stints at West Alabama and Lamar Group Faculty. Whereas at LCC, the workforce ranked thirteenth within the nation for block solos, thirty second in digs and thirty seventh in service aces in 2019. A local of Lancaster, Texas, Coleman started her collegiate profession at Tyler Junior Faculty, earlier than concluding her taking part in profession at Prairie View A&M. She helped the Panthers win two Southwestern Athletic Convention Western Division titles. Coleman was awarded the Scholar-Athlete Educational Award thrice, and was the primary student-athlete from Prairie View A&M to earn a Nike Internship.
SOMEONE NEW: Morgan State will sq. off towards two first-time opponents this season. The Girl Bears will face Wofford (8/27) within the finale of the Charlotte Invitational and can go to Akron (9/10) within the finale of the Cleveland State/Akron Invitational.
POSTSEASON EXPERIENCE: Morgan will face simply two opponents this season (Towson and Howard), who reached the 2021 NCAA Volleyball Match. The Girl Bears will face the crosstown rival Towson Tigers on Sept. 4 at 1 p.m. within the finale of the Towson Invitational in Towson, Md. Morgan will sq. off towards its MEAC rival, Howard twice this season on one another’s dwelling ground. The 2 will first meet on Oct. 7 in Washington, D.C. and can conclude their common season collection on Oct. 28 in Baltimore for Morgan’s Dig Pink match.
LOOKING TO STAY UNBEATEN: Morgan State will look so as to add to its good file and stay unbeaten towards fellow MEAC member South Carolina State. The Girl Bears enter this season with a 25-0 all-time file towards the Girl Bulldogs. Morgan State and SC State will first meet on Sunday, Sept. 25 in Baltimore, earlier than going through one another once more on Sunday, Oct. 23 in Orangeburg, S.C.
TOURNAMENT EXPOSURE: The Girl Bears will participate in 4 common season tournaments this 12 months. Following the Charlotte Invitational (Aug. 26-27), Morgan State will make the brief journey to Towson, Md. to compete within the Towson Invitational (Sept. 2-4) towards Princeton, Radford, Rutgers and Towson. Subsequent can be a visit to Ohio for the Cleveland State/Akron Invitational (Sept. 9-10). Morgan State will tackle Valparaiso within the opener on Friday at 11 a.m. on the College of Akron and can meet co-host Cleveland State that night at 6 p.m. the Girl Bears will journey again to Akron on Saturday to face the host Zips at 12 p.m. Morgan State will shut out its non-conference slate in Fairfax, Va. for the George Mason Invitational (Sept. 16-17). MSU will meet fellow MEAC foe Maryland Jap Shore on Friday at 4:30 p.m. The competition won’t depend towards the MEAC standings. The Girl Bears will shut out the weekend with an 11 a.m. contest on Saturday towards New Hampshire, earlier than taking over host George Mason at 6 p.m. within the finale.
EIGHT NAMED TO MEAC ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM: Morgan State had eight gamers named to the MEAC Volleyball All-Educational Workforce through the 2020-21 faculty 12 months. Six of the eight acknowledged (Melanie Battle, Londyn Coles, Gabriela Hiciano, Tyasia McDuffie, Jourdan Web page and Alyssa Sampson) return for the 2022 season.
MORGAN EARNS THIRD STRAIGHT USMC/AVCA ACADEMIC AWARD: The Morgan volleyball program was honored as a recipient of america Marine Corps and the American Volleyball Coaches Affiliation Workforce Educational Award for the 2021-22 educational 12 months. The Girl Bears had a workforce GPA of three.35. It marked the third consecutive 12 months, in addition to the third time in program historical past that Morgan State has earned the award. Final season Morgan posted a GPA of three.62 and totaled a 3.48 GPA when it first earned the award for the 2019-20 educational 12 months.
WELCOME TO THE CAVE: Morgan State welcomes the addition of two newcomers to the 2022 squad, one freshmen, Jaydn Perkins (Pittsburgh, Pa.) and one junior switch in Mikah McIntosh (Miami, Fla.).
SAYING GOODBYE: Morgan State will say goodbye to its lone senior, Melanie Battle previous to its dwelling finale ‘Senior Night time’ match towards rival Coppin State (11/11). The match may also be the Girl Bears’ common season finale.
2022 MEAC CHAMPIONSHIP: This 12 months’s MEAC Volleyball Championship will happen November 18-20 in Dover, Del. at Memorial Corridor on the campus of Delaware State College.
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Morgan State College, based in 1867, is a Carnegie-classified excessive analysis (R2) establishment providing practically 140 educational packages resulting in levels from the baccalaureate to the doctorate. As Maryland’s Preeminent Public City Analysis College, and the one college to have its total campus designated as a Nationwide Treasure by the Nationwide Belief for Historic Preservation, Morgan serves a multiethnic and multiracial scholar physique and seeks to make sure that the doorways of upper training are opened as vast as attainable to as many as attainable. For extra details about Morgan State College, go to www.morgan.edu.