ROCHESTER, Mich. -- The Oakland volleyball team continues Horizon League play by hosting defending conference champion Green Bay on Friday, Oct. 4 at 6 p.m. and UIC on Saturday, Oct. 5 at 4 p.m. Friday's match will be streamed live on ESPN3. 

The Golden Grizzlies dropped a pair of matches in their league-opening weekend, falling in three sets at Wright State and IUPUI.

Friday's match is sponsored by Oakland University Credit Union as Oakland will be continuing its Crayon Drive, collecting new crayons to be donated to local children's hospitals. Crayon collections will continue for Saturday's match and fans are encouraged to wear gold in support of Childhood Cancer Awareness Day.

INSIDE THE SERIES

• The series between Oakland and Green Bay is tied 9-9.
• The Golden Grizzlies and Phoenix have split their regular season matchups the last two seasons, with the home team winning in each contest. 
• Oakland is 9-4 all-time against UIC
• The Golden Grizzlies have won seven of the last nine matches against the Flames dating back to 2014.

NOTES

• Megan Hobler ranks 31st nationally in total blocks (65).
• Lindsay Wightman is nearing the 1,000 career dig milestone, coming into the weekend with 958.
• Jamie Walling already has three 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 192-176 (.521) 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 Brittany Welch (New Mexico State).

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