ROCHESTER, Mich. -- The Oakland volleyball team will continue its road tilt by taking on UIC Friday, Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. ET and Green Bay Saturday, Oct. 26 at 5 p.m. ET.

Oakland is coming off a pair of wins on the road at Cleveland State and Youngstown State, extending its win streak to a league-best five games. The Golden Grizzlies and UIC are part of a three-way tie for third place in a jam-packed race for the Horizon League title. Green Bay is one game ahead of Oakland in second place.

INSIDE THE SERIES

• Oakland leads the series with UIC 9-4.
• The Golden Grizzlies have won three of the last four matches against the Flames.
• The series between Oakland and Green Bay is tied 9-9, with each team winning two of the last four meetings.

NOTES

• Jamie Walling has been named Horizon League Offensive Player of the Week after averaging 4.50 kills per set and hit .354 last weekend.
• Megan Hobler ranks 18th nationally in total blocks (98).
• Lindsay Wightman ranks 38th nationally in digs per set (4.85).
• On Oct. 9 at Northern Kentucky, Oakland set a new single match school record with 126 digs, obliterating the previous record from 2009 of 115. 
• On Oct. 5 against UIC, Lindsay Wightman became the eighth player in program history to record 1,000 career digs. The junior libero averaged 5.00 digs per set last weekend, and notched 30 digs or more for the fourth time in her career, leading Oakland with 32, on Oct. 4 against Green Bay.
• Jamie Walling already has four 20-plus-kill performances this season. Coming into 2019, she had four in her career.
• On Sept. 7 against Belmont, Mackenzie Schneider recorded seven service aces which tied Melissa Deatsch (2013), Meghan Bray (2011) and Becca Moeller (2003) for the single match school record.
• Rob Beam enters his 13th season as the head coach at Oakland compiling a 197-177 (.527) record.
• Oakland has finished fourth or higher in its league standings in eight of the last nine seasons.
• The Golden Grizzlies were picked fourth in the 2019 Horizon League Volleyball Preseason Poll announced by the league office on Aug. 28 and voted on by the league's nine head coaches. Oakland earned one first-place vote and 49 points overall.
• Oakland returns a first team all-league selection in Walling. She was the only player to appear in all 27 matches and play in all 108 sets last season and ranked second in the Horizon League in hitting percentage at .290.
• Walling also ranked third in the conference in points per set (3.87), fourth in kills per set (3.37) and recorded 20 kills or more in four matches.
• Wightman returns for her junior season as one of the league's top defensive specialists, ranking fourth in the conference last season in digs per set.
• Wightman also ranked inside the NCAA's top-50 in digs per set (45th) in 2018.
• Oakland added eight newcomers to the 2019 team, including three transfers in Taylor Dellinger (Western Kentucky), Kerra Cornist (Evansville) and Welch (New Mexico State).

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