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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Riding a four-match winning streak, the Davenport University women's volleyball team (12-4, 5-2 GLIAC) will hit the road on Friday and Saturday to face Wayne State and Saginaw Valley State at 7 p.m. and 4 p.m., respectively. The Panthers have won five of their first seven GLIAC matches for the first time in program history and enter this week third in the league standings.

Wayne State (10-5, 4-3 GLIAC) comes in having won three matches in a row since being swept by Davenport on Sept. 17 in Grand Rapids. That defeat was part of a season-long three-match skid for the Warriors, who are 6-2 at home so far this season. As for Saginaw Valley State (8-7, 4-3 GLIAC), a team that defeated the Panthers in straight sets on Sept. 16, the Cardinals have been swept in three-straight outings since winning seven in a row from Sept. 2-17.

LAST TIME OUT - Wayne State
(-20, -19, -12)
Box Score

Match Notes
- Less than 24 hours after becoming the program's all-time leader in kills, Kreiger was back at it with 19 kills and only two errors on 43 swings for a .395 offensive clip.
- Wayne State's Lauren VanderWal, one of the top attackers in the GLIAC, was held to just six kills, one off her season low, on a .000 hitting percentage.
- After hitting -.029 on Friday, Taylor responded well in her own right with a .217 clip against WSU thanks to nine kills and four errors on 23 attacks.
- As a team, Davenport got back into double-figures behind the service line with 10 aces to Wayne State's two.
- Beeke reached the 20-assist mark for the sixth time this season and fifth time in her last six matches.
- Odeen's 15 assists were three off her season high and tied for the most since that mark was set at Flagler on Aug. 26.
- Kalinowski finished with eight digs, two shy of her season high and her third match with eight or more this season.
- As a team, the Panthers (.224 hitting percentage) hit at least .200 for the seventh time this season and improved to 6-1 in those matches.
- DU also snapped a four-match stretch in which they hadn't reached that .200 plateau.
- The Panthers' best offensive set was the second (.345) while the Warriors hit below .100 in each of their three sets.

LAST TIME OUT - Saginaw Valley State
(22-25, 16-25, 19-25)
Box Score

Match Notes
- In the process of becoming the program's all-time kills leader, Kreiger notched her sixth double-double of the season and 24th of her career.
- After 428 sets played for her career, the South Haven native was averaging 3.59 kills per set for her career, which was second in program history.
- Davenport fell to 0-4 this season when the opponent finished with more service aces as the Cardinals had seven to the Panthers' two.
- Saginaw Valley State was just the third opponent to hit at least .200 this season (Embry-Riddle and Newberry).
- The Cardinals hit .242 for the match, including .353 in the second, while the Panthers hit .112, including .132 in the second.

Story by: Cooper Weidenthaler