Volleyball readies for road tests at Drake, Northern Iowa

Friday, October 21

Des Moines, Iowa

7:00 PM

Southern Illinois University

Drake University

10/20/2016 | 4:14:00 | Women's Volleyball

Game Notes

SIU takes on Drake on Friday, before facing Northern Iowa Saturday.

Southern Illinois (16-7, 7-2 MVC) vs. Drake (12-10, 3-5 MVC), Northern Iowa (15-7, 6-3 MVC)
Date & Time	Oct. 21-22, 2016 \| 7 p.m. CT
Locations	Des Moines, Iowa \| Knapp Center Cedar Falls, Iowa \| McLeod Center
Tickets	at Drake at UNI
Video Stream	at Drake: ESPN3 at UNI: ESPN3
Live Stats	at Drake: Live Stats at UNI: Live Stats
Southern Illinois	Game Notes \| Stats \| Media Guide
Drake	Game Notes \| Stats
Northern Iowa	Game Notes \| Stats \| Media Guide
MVC	Weekly Notes \| Stats
All-Time Series	Overall: UNI leads SIU, 52-13 \| Streak: SIU W2 \| Last Meeting: SIU 3-2 (18-25, 25-23, 31-29, 19-25, 15-13) Overall: SIU leads Drake, 41-19 \| Streak: SIU W9 \| Last Meeting: SIU 3-1 (25-16, 27-29, 25-17, 25-21)
Social Media	@SIU_Volleyball \| @SIUSalukis \| Saluki Volleyball

CARBONDALE, Ill. -- The Southern Illinois volleyball team will travel to the state of Iowa over the weekend to take on Drake and Northern Iowa. The Salukis take on the Drake Bulldogs on Oct. 21 at 7 p.m., before traveling to Cedar Falls to face the Panthers at 7 p.m. Both matches will be broadcast on ESPN3.

The Opponents

• Drake (12-10, 3-5) comes into Friday's contest having lost five of its last seven matches. Most recently, the Bulldogs defeated the Bradley Braves in four sets. SIU holds a commanding 41-19 all-time edge over the Bulldogs, including an 18-11 record at Drake in a series that dates back to 1978. The Salukis are a perfect 9-0 against the Bulldogs under Coach Ingram.

• UNI (15-7, 6-3) comes into Saturday's contest winners of their last five matches, and six of their last seven. The Panthers' lone loss during that stretch came against Missouri State on Sept. 30. The Salukis trail the all-time series with the Panthers, 13-52, dating back to 1982. Ten of Southern's 13 all-time wins have come at home, while SIU is 6-3 against UNI under Coach Ingram, including the five-set win over the Panthers on Sept. 23.

• SIU last swept the Iowa road trip during the 2013 season, when SIU disposed of UNI in four sets on Nov. 8, and followed with a sweep at Drake the following night.

Team Notes

• Meg Viggars is the only current NCAA DI player with 2,000 assists/1,000 digs/800 kills. Corrine Baine of Harvard isn't far off, as she needs 15 kills to join Viggars. The Stokes-on-Trent, England native can once again join a class of her own, as she needs 34 kills to reach 900 for her career.

• The Salukis recorded seven service aces in the win over Evansville on Oct. 15, their most against a Missouri Valley Conference opponent this season, and the most since SIU recorded eight in an Oct. 31, 2015 win at Bradley.

• SIU also tallied just two service errors in the win over Evansville, their fewest in a match this season, and the fewest since Southern recorded just two service errors in SIU's Nov. 14, 2015 win over Indiana State.

• Andrea Estrada needs 11 kills to reach 1,000 for her career. The redshirt junior would become the 14th Saluki all-time to reach the 1,000 kill-plateau, and the fifth to do so during their junior season. It has taken Estrada 85 matches (318 sets) to reach 989 kills for her career, and provided she reaches 1,000 in the next four matches, will become the third-fastest in school history in terms of matches played to reach 1,000. Her 989 kills are the 15th-most of any junior (or younger) in NCAA D1, and the 91st-most overall.

Four Salukis have reached the 1,000-kill mark during their junior season. Here they are in order of how quickly it took them to do it.
Dana Olden (1989-92): 76 matches/293 sets
Kristie Kemner (1999-02): 80 matches/274 sets
Andrea Estrada (2013-pres.): 85 matches/318 sets
Marlo Moreland (1995-98): 89 matches/286 sets
Jennifer Berwanger (2006-10): 96 matches/342 sets

• SIU ranks in the top-25 nationally in several categories. The Salukis rank 13th in team assists with 1,074, are 19th in total team blocks (206.0) and 21st in team kills (1,123).

• Hannah Kaminsky became the fifth Saluki to reach the 3,000 career assist plateau earlier this season, while Meg Viggars joined the 2,000-assist club with her 23 assists in the win over Illinois State on Saturday. It marks the first time in program history that the Salukis have two setters with 2,000-plus career assists on the same team.

• The Salukis hit a season-best .607 in set one of their three-set loss to Wichita State on Oct. 10. It marked the first time since Sept. 19, 2009 that SIU has hit .600 or better in a single frame.

• Southern has hit .400 or better in 16 sets this season, and boast a 13-3 record in those sets. In the last eight seasons combined the Salukis have a .962 winning percentage (103-4) in sets in which they hit .400 or better, including a stretch from 2009-2014 in which SIU won 66-straight sets that they hit .400 or better in. The Salukis have a 72-4 (.947) set record when hitting .400 or better under head coach Justin Ingram.

Year-by-Year Record
2009: 14-0
2010: 10-0
2011: 7-0
2012: 17-0
2013: 8-0
2014: 10-1
2015: 24-0
2016: 13-3
Total: 103-4 (.962)
Under Ingram: 72-4 (.947)

• When tallying a single-set hitting efficiency of .400 or better under Coach Ingram, the Salukis go on to win more than 88% of the matches. SIU is 53-7 overall, and 29-4 in MVC play under Ingram in matches where they record a single-set of .400 or better.

Match record under Ingram when hitting .400 or better in a set:
2012: 10-0, 4-0 MVC
2013: 7-1, 6-1 MVC
2014: 8-2, 5-0 MVC
2015: 17-1, 10-1 MVC
2016: 11-3, 3-2 MVC
Total: 53-7 (.883), 29-4 (.878) MVC

• Dating back to the 2009 season, the Salukis have won 89.1% (74-9) of their matches when attacking at a .400 hitting efficiency or better during a single set, and are 37-5 in Missouri Valley Conference play when doing so.

Record in matches when hitting .400 or better in a single set.
2009: 10-0, 4-0 MVC
2010: 7-1, 3-0 MVC
2011: 5-1, 2-1 MVC
2012: 10-0, 4-0 MVC
2013: 7-1, 6-1 MVC
2014: 8-2, 5-0 MVC
2015: 17-1, 10-1 MVC
2016: 11-3, 4-2 MVC
Total: 75-9 (.892), 38-5 (.883) MVC

• The Salukis are 9-0 this season when tallying 10+ blocks in a single match. Under head coach Justin Ingram, SIU boasts an .830 winning percentage (54-11) when stuffing 10 or more of the oppositions' attempts, with the Salukis recording three seperate streaks of five-straight matches in which they've blocked 10+ attempts.

Record when tallying 10+ blocks
2012: 12-2
2013: 8-3
2014: 8-3
2015: 17-3
2016: 9-0
Total: 54-11 (.830)

• Overall the Salukis have a .785 winning percentage (44-12) under Justin Ingram on their home floor, and are 32-9 against MVC foes at home under the 2015 MVC Coach of the Year.

Year-by-Year MVC Home Record
2012: 7-2
2013: 7-2
2014: 5-4
2015: 8-1
2016: 5-0
Total: 32-9 (.785)

Year-by-Year Home Record
2012: 11-2
2013: 9-3
2014: 7-5
2015: 9-1
2016: 8-1
Total: 44-12 (.785)

• SIU is 5-0 in conference matches at home this season, and have won 12 conference matches in a row at Davies dating back to last season. Southern's last conference loss at home was on Oct. 3, 2015 against the Loyola Ramblers.

• Alex Rosignol leads the MVC in blocks per set at 1.21 and total blocks (94). She led the conference in blocks per set a year ago.

• Rosignol hit .455 (6-1-11) against the Purple Aces on Oct. 15, the fourth-straight match Rosignol has hit .400 or better.

• Rosignol and Kolby Meeks are ranked in the top-5 in the Valley in hitting percentage. Meeks is hitting .376 and is currently third, while Rosignol is hitting .366 and ranks fourth.

• Meg Viggars moved into a six-way tie for 7th on SIU's all-time list matches played list with 119. All told, Viggars has played in 447 sets during her SIU career, the fifth-most in school history and tied for the seventh-most amongst active DI players. Hannah Kaminsky isn't far behind, as she's played 432 sets- tied with Debbie Barr (1996-99) for seventh-most in school history.

• Ginger Perinar hit an efficient .750 on eight attempts in the win over Evansville, putting down six kills in two sets. It marks the fourth time this season Perinar has tallied five or more kills off the bench.

• Mariana Pilon finished with 15 digs in the three-set win over Evansville, marking just the fourth time the senior libero has tallied 15-plus digs in a three-set match in her career. Overall, its the 10th time this season, and the 23rd time in her career that Pilon has notched 15-plus digs. The Sao Paulo, Brazil native ranks seventh in the MVC in total digs at 306.

• Abby Barrow tied a season and career-best with two service aces in the win over Evansville. Barrow previously had two aces in the three-set win at Bradley on Sept. 30, 2016. She also set a new career-best with seven digs in the win over the Purple Aces, besting her previous high of five.

• Barrow is also just 19 kills from 800 for her career, and would join teammates Viggars and Estrada in the 800-kill club.