DETROIT -- The final two matches of the 2023 regular season are here for the Wayne State University volleyball team (10-17 overall, 5-11 GLIAC).  The Warriors will host Parkside (17-10 overall, 11-5 GLIAC) for Family Night on Friday at 7 p.m. before welcoming in Davenport (11-16 overall, 7-9 GLIAC) for Senior Day on Saturday at 4 p.m.

COACH KOTH
"We're looking forward to the final home weekend of the regular season.  We get to thank our families, celebrate our seniors and play two very good opponents, so it should be fun."

GLIAC TOURNAMENT
As of this release, Wayne State would be the eighth seed for the GLIAC Tournament and face the top seed of either Grand Valley State or Ferris State in the quarterfinals.  The Warriors have a chance at the seventh seed, which could pit them against the other of those two teams in the 2-7 matchup.  The Warriors are one game ahead of ninth-place Lake Superior State (7-20 overall, 4-12 GLIAC).  The Lakers will host Northern Michigan on Friday and Michigan Tech on Saturday, two teams they lost to the first time around earlier this season.  WSU's magic number is two and it needs to match what LSSU does or better.

LAST TIME OUT - NOV. 4 AT NORTHERN MICHIGAN (L, 1-3:  20-25, -21, 20-25, 27-29)
- Northern Michigan came out hot in the first with its best hitting percentage of the match at .310 (11 kills, 2 errors, 29 total attacks).
- Wayne State answered with its best clip at .313 in the second (14 kills, 4 errors, 32 total attacks).
- In that second set, the Warriors trailed by two, 20-18, before coming back to win it thanks to a 7-1 run.
- Both teams registered an identical offensive efficiency of .143 in the third.
- However, the Wildcats came back from being down 18-13 with 12 of the final 14 scores to take a 2-1 match advantage.
- The fourth stanza saw a combined 11 ties and three lead changes.
- Five of those 11 deadlocks came in the set's final 11 total points scored, all of which were forced by Wayne State.
- Once it was 27-27, Northern Michigan's Jacqueline Smith sent home back-to-back kills to seal it for her squad.

NOTABLE PERFORMANCES VS. THE WILDCATS
- Dulgar reached the 50-assist plateau for the fourth time this season and fourth time in her last six matches.
- Saturday against Northern Michigan was the first of those four times she did it in just four sets.

SEPT. 30 AT PARKSIDE (W, 3-0:  -21, -15, -14)
- The opening set, the tightest one of the match, saw a combined four ties and two lead changes.
- With that being said, once it was deadlocked for a final time at 10-10, Wayne State used a 10-3 run to go up by seven, 20-13.
- Parkside battled back within one, 21-20, but the Warriors held off the late charge with four of the final five scores.
- WSU carried that momentum into the second period with nine of its first 12 points.
- From there until the end of the stanza, the Rangers could never get closer than four and trailed by as many as 10.
- Similar to the second set, Wayne State opened the third with an 8-3 spurt.
- Also similar to the middle period, the Warriors just wore down the Rangers to seal the set and match.

SEPT. 29 AT DAVENPORT (L, 1-3:  20-25, -25, 15-25, 18-25)
- Davenport hit at least .306 in three of the match's four sets while Wayne State's best clip came in the third at .229.
- The Panthers opened the night with a 7-3 run and the Warriors cut it to two at 7-5, but the home team used a 5-2 spurt to go up by five, 12-7.
- The visitors hung around, getting as close as two at 15-13, and within three on five other occasions.
- However, DU kept answering to take the first set and a 1-0 match advantage.
- WSU led the second set by as many as seven (19-12, 20-13) before a late advantage of five, 23-18.
- The hosts then rattled off six of the next seven scores to knot it up at 24-24.
- Wayne State slammed the door, though, thanks to three of the last four rallies.
- Davenport led the fourth stanza wire to wire, including a 10-point lead at 19-9, 20-10 and 25-15.
- In the fourth, Wayne State scored three of the initial four points, but Davenport proceeded to score five times in a row.
- After that, the Warriors came within two on five occasions, but the Panthers took all the momentum with a 7-1 run down the stretch.