PITTSBURGH – The Duquesne volleyball team (10-14, 5-8 A-10) wraps up the home portion of its schedule with home matches against George Washington (2-10, 2-21 A-10) and George Mason (3-9, 5-18 A-10) this weekend.

The Dukes will welcome the Colonials on Friday at 7 p.m. and host the Patriots on Sunday at 1 p.m. for Senior Day. Both matches will broadcast live on ESPN+.
 
SERIES BREAKDOWN VS. GEORGE WASHINGTON

• All-Time Series: GW leads, 38-19
• First Meeting: Oct. 24, 1986 at Duquesne – GW won 3-0
• Last Meeting: Sept. 25, 2021 at George Washington – DUQ won 3-2 I Recap | Box Score
• Streak: Duquesne, +1

SERIES BREAKDOWN VS. GEORGE MASON

• All-Time Series: Duquesne leads, 9-7
• First Meeting: Sept. 20, 1986 at George Mason – GMU won 3-0
• Last Meeting: Sept. 24, 2021 at George Mason – DU won 3-1 I Recap | Box Score
• Streak: Duquesne, +3

QUICK HITS

• The Dukes are in fifth place in the A-10 standings at 5-8, while George Mason and George Washington sit in eighth and ninth, respectively.
• The top-six teams advance to the Atlantic 10 Championship on Nov. 19, hosted by Duquesne at the UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse.
• Tickets for the event are available online.
• Duquesne and George Washington have each won five of the past 10 matchups between the two squads.
• The Dukes are 11-15 all-time in home matches versus GW, compared to a 7-21 mark when playing in Washington, D.C.
• Duquesne is looking to match its longest winning-streak against George Mason. The Dukes won four in-a-row from 2013-15.
• DU is 9-2 against the Patriots since they joined the Atlantic 10 in 2013 and has won eight of the last 10 meetings.
• Summer Slade had her best statistical weekend of the season last week.
• She averaged 4.11 kills per set and 2.33 digs per set in matches versus Rhode Island and Fordham.
• Slade matched a then-season high with 17 kills in a five-set win over Rhode Island. She finished with a .286 hitting percentage, which was a season-best with more than 30 swings.
• The Western New York native then led all players with a career-high 20 kills and hit .260 in the team's setback against Fordham. She also collected a team-high 14 digs on defense.
• Slade ranks second on the team and seventh in the A-10 with 2.98 kills per set. She also slots third on the Dukes with 2.50 digs per set.
• Morgan Kelly returned to the court after missing a pair of matches.
• She leads the team and ranks fourth in the A-10 with 3.44 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.
• Setter Hailey Poling leads the A-10 with 9.63 assists per set and 896 total assists. She established a career-high with 58 assists in a five-set loss to Akron in August.
• Middle Hitter Anita Parrott ranks sixth in the A-10 with 1.01 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 3.56 digs per set. She matched a season-high with 23 in the team's most-recent loss at VCU.
• Ego Onu has seen an uptick in blocks the past three weeks. After averaging 0.59 blocks per set through the first 18 matches of the season, Onu has swatted down 1.16 per set over the past six.
• Onu established a season-high with eight blocks in the team's five-set win over Rhode Island.

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 459-461 and a mark of 340-346 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 340 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 COLONIALS (ROSTER | SCHEDULE | STATS)

• George Washington has been defeated in three sets in each of its past four matches.
• The Colonials rank near the bottom of the A-10 in every category, except in the service game.
• GW slots fifth in the A-10 with 1.35 aces per set.
• Salem Yohannes paces the Colonials with 2.69 kills per set to rank 12^th in the A-10.
• Defensively, Bella Bowman slots fifth with 4.34 digs per set.

SCOUTING THE PATRIOTS (ROSTER | SCHEDULE | STATS)

• George Mason enters the weekend 2-2 in its past four matches. Mason will face Dayton on Friday night prior to its match with Duquesne.
• The Patriots defeated both Fordham and Rhode Island two weeks ago and are coming in off of two losses to Saint Louis.
• Mason is winless in eight true-road matches this season.
• Like GW, Mason ranks near the bottom of the A-10 in every category except for service aces.
• The Patriots slot fourth in the A-10 with 1.45 aces per set.
• Ewelina Gacek leads the Patriots and ranks third in the conference with 34 service aces this season.
• Olyvia Kennedy and Peyton Ehmke are the team's top-two hitters.
• Kennedy leads Mason and ranks 10^th in the A-10 with 2.77 kills per set, while Ehmke sits 18^th in the league with 2.40 per set.