PITTSBURGH – The Duquesne volleyball team (12-14, 7-8 A-10) closes out the regular-season on Saturday, Nov. 13 with a visit to Saint Louis (17-10, 10-4 A-10).

The match is slated to start at 8 p.m. (7 p.m. CT) and will broadcast live on ESPN+.
 
SERIES BREAKDOWN VS. SAINT LOUIS

• All-Time Series: Saint Louis leads, 23-6
• First Meeting: Sept. 30, 2005 at Duquesne – DU won 3-0 I Recap | Box Score
• Last Meeting: Oct. 8, 2021 at Duquesne – SLU won 3-0 I Recap | Box Score
• Streak: Saint Louis, +5

QUICK HITS

• The Dukes have clinched a berth in the A-10 Championship and can do no worse than the No. 5 seed at the event.
• The top-six teams advance to the Atlantic 10 Championship on Nov. 19, hosted by Duquesne at the UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse.
• The Dukes will likely play in the first game of the championship on Friday, Nov. 19 at 2:30 p.m.
• Tickets for the event are available online.
• Setter Hailey Poling leads the A-10 with 9.89 assists per set and 989 total assists. She established a career-high with 58 assists in a five-set loss to Akron in August.
• Poling guided the offense to its best statistical weekend of the season. The Dukes matched a then-season's best with a .330 hitting percentage against GW on Friday, before hitting .363 in the team's win over George Mason on Sunday to establish a season-high.
• Poling is 11 assists away from being the first Duke since Dani Suiter in 2017 to accumulate 1,000 assists in a single season.
• Summer Slade had another great weekend for the Dukes in the team's wins over GW and George Mason.
• Slade averaged 4.57 kills and 4.0 digs per set between the two matches and established a new career-high with 22 kills in the four-set win over Mason.
• The Lancaster, New York native hit .413 in that match – a career-best with more than 30 attacks – and even added a match-high four blocks.
• She averaged 4.11 kills per set and 2.33 digs per set in matches versus Rhode Island and Fordham the week prior.
• Slade ranks second on the team and seventh in the A-10 with 3.09 kills per set. She also slots third on the Dukes with 2.60 digs per set.
• Morgan Kelly averaged 4.86 kills per set and hit .362 in the wins over GW and Mason.
• Kelly posted 15 kills in the win over GW and paced Slade with 19 in the team's victory over George Mason.
• She leads the team and ranks third in the A-10 with 3.54 kills per set.
• Earlier this season, Kelly broke a 22-year old Duquesne record for kills in a three-set match when she put down 20 in the win over Canisius (Box Score) at the Western NY Invitational.
• The previous record of 19 was set by both Anita Ball (09/04/99 vs. Bowling Green) and Mindy Buhrow (10/10/98 vs. Dayton).
• Kelly established a career-high with 24 kills on 60 attacks (.217 hitting percentage) in a five-set loss to Akron earlier this season.
• Middle Hitter Anita Parrott ranks sixth in the A-10 with 0.97 blocks per set. Parrott has matched a career-high with nine blocks twice this season in matches versus Akron and Liberty.
• Libero Camille Spencer leads the team with 3.71 digs per set. She was one dig shy of a season-high when she collected 22 in the win over Mason.

DUQUESNE HEAD COACH STEVE OPPERMAN (Ohio State '87)

• Steve Opperman enters his 24^th season as the head coach of the Dukes in 2021.
• He owns a career-record of 461-461 and a mark of 342-346 at Duquesne.
• Opperman collected his 450^th-career victory with a 3-0 win over Youngstown State in the season opener.
• The New Bremen, Ohio native is Duquesne's all-time winningest coach with 342 career victories on The Bluff.
• He is a four-time Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year (co-2001, co-2004, co-2010 and 2013).
• Opperman coached the first two AVCA All-Americans in program history, Liz Homan (2010) and Arielle Love (2014).
• The Ohio State alum has coached 14 First or Second Team A-10 All-Conference players (a total of 22 times).
• He has coached 22 A-10 All-Rookie Team member.
• Opperman arrived in Pittsburgh in 1998 after spending seven seasons as the head coach at Wright State, where he amassed a record of 119-116 from 1991-97.

SCOUTING THE BILLIKENS (ROSTER | SCHEDULE | STATS)

• The Billikens will take on Dayton on Friday night ahead of the match with the Dukes on Saturday.
• Saint Louis had its five-match winning-streak snapped by Rhode Island this past Sunday. The Billikens needed five sets to escape from New York with a win over Fordham last Friday.
• Three-time all-conference honoree Maya Taylor ranks second in the A-10 and 38^th overall with 4.06 kills per set.
• Jillian Mattingly leads the A-10 and ranks 33^rd in Division I with a .386 hitting percentage. She also paces the team and slots fourth in the league with 1.07 blocks per set.
• Saint Louis leads the A-10 with 12.59 assists per set. Kate Aupperle tops the team with 7.35 assists per set.
• SLU ranks second in the A-10 and 29^th in Division I with 1.8 service aces per set.
• Emily Henken ranks second in the A-10 with 0.42 aces per set.