ROCHESTER, Mich. -- The Oakland volleyball team will host IUPUI and Wright State in the regular season finale Friday and Saturday at the O'rena.
 
On Friday, Nov. 15 the Golden Grizzlies welcome IUPUI at 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday's match will serve as a collection point for the OU Canned Food Drive in an effort to collect 1,500 pounds of food to donate to the Golden Grizzlies' food pantry on campus.
 
Oakland will celebrate senior day, honoring Taylor Dellinger, Megan Hobler, Mackenzie Schneider and Courtney Wightman on Saturday prior to the 4 p.m. match against the Raiders on ESPN3.

INSIDE THE SERIES

• Oakland is 13-8 all-time against Wright State
• The Golden Grizzlies have won 13 of the past 15 matches against the Raiders
• The Raiders swept Oakland in three sets earlier this season when the two teams met on Sept. 27 in Dayton
• The Golden Grizzlies are 11-26 all-time against IUPUI.
• Oakland fell to IUPUI 3-2 on Sept. 28

NOTES

• Jamie Walling was named Horizon League Offensive Player of the Week after averaging 4.50 kills per set and hit .354 (10/21)
• Megan Hobler ranks 34th nationally in total blocks (115), tying her for 10th all time in program history for total blocks in a single season
• Lindsay Wightman ranks 21st nationally in digs per set (5.21)
• 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
• Jamie Walling has five 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 199-181 (.524) 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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