PITTSBURGH – Point Park will open the month of November with its home finale against MEC-North-leading Fairmont State on Monday evening at the Student Center. First serve is slated for 7 p.m.
Point Park enters the match with a record of 6-18 overall (3-11 MEC). The Pioneers are looking to snap a 6-match losing streak and are currently in fifth in the MEC North Division. Fairmont State has the best record in the MEC and currently leads the MEC North with a record of 13-1 (25-5 overall).
Point Park Volleyball Notebook
- The two teams played back on Oct. 2 in Fairmont – with the Falcons picking up a 3-0 win over the Pioneers (25-21, 25-12, 25-17). Nicole Reasbeck led Point Park with 11 kills and five digs. Josie Nobbe had nine kills for Fairmont State.
- Reasbeck is leading Point Park with 224 kills, 197 digs, 22 blocks and 16 aces. She is third on the team in hitting percentage (.145).
- Patricia Calero-Irizarry is second on the team in kills, first in hitting percentage (.188) and first in total blocks (53).
- Marianna Oyola-Rivera fills the stat sheet for Point Park nearly every night. Oyola-Rivera ranks third on the team in kills (107), first in assists (412), first in aces (34), third in digs (144) and third in blocks (26).
- Oyola-Rivera ranks third (tie) in the MEC in aces per set (0.43).
- Sara Faith is fourth on the team in kills with 224.
- Defensively, Point Park is led by senior Mia Arndt with 323 digs.
- In addition to Oyola-Rivera, Brooke Bednarski has contributed as a setter, recording 234 assists in 23 matches.
