DETROIT -- The Wayne State University volleyball team (3-9 overall, 0-4 GLIAC) will begin an eight-match road trip with a midweek excursion to Saginaw Valley State (2-10 overall, 0-4 GLIAC) on Tuesday at 7 p.m.

Last Time Out - Grand Valley State
- The first set was a heated one that saw 11 ties and six lead changes.
- Wayne State was ahead by three, 21-18, before Grand Valley State won the period with seven of the final eight points.
- The first stanza was the Warriors' best offensively at .194 (13 kills, 7 errors, 31 total attacks).
- It was much of the same back and forth in the second, including 12 deadlocks and seven exchanges of the lead.
- Trailing by five, 18-13, the home team used an 8-2 spurt to pull ahead by one, 21-20.
- Then, following the final two lead changes, the hosts were holding onto a one-point advantage, 23-22, before the visitors rattled off three straight.
- Grand Valley State took over the third set hitting .522 and leading by as many as 12, 25-13.

Last Time Out - Lake Superior State
- Lake Superior State out-hit Wayne State .294 to .194 in the first set and .275 to .256 in the second.
- The Lakers were ahead by as many as seven points in the opening stanza, including 22-15, 23-16 and 24-17.
- In the second period, the visitors used a 9-2 run in the middle of the set to take a nine-point lead, 18-9.
- The hosts were able to cut the deficit to four, though (20-16, 21-17, 23-19 and 24-20), before the away team made it 25-20.
- With Lake Superior State going for match point in the third set at 25-24, the Lakers made three-straight errors.
- Those three mistakes included a service error, bad set and attack out of bounds.
- In the fourth, Wayne State opened with five-straight points, led the set wire to wire and was up by at least three points throughout.
- The Warriors carried that momentum into the fifth with four of its first five scores.
- Once WSU held a three-point advantage, 6-3, LSSU responded with seven of the ensuing eight points to go back ahead by three, 10-7.
- The home team wasn't done, though, punching back with four straight to lead by one at 11-10 and 12-11.
- However, the visitors sealed the deal with a 4-1 spurt, including a pair of kills from both Hannah Callaway and Mariana Velasque (match-high 25 kills).

Leading the Warriors
The Wayne State offense has been led by Giroux so far this fall.  Right now, Giroux's hitting efficiency sits at .384, second best in the league, as she's racked up 122 kills to just 29 errors on 242 total attacks.  Also factoring into the Warrior attack have been a pair of newbies in Molly Miller with a team-leading 145 kills (fourth in the GLIAC) and Katie Smith with 85, both of which have started all 12 of the team's matches like Giroux.  The fourth and final Warrior to have been in every starting lineup is Kayla Dulgar and her 418 assists, 9.29 per set, which rank third and second in the conference, respectively.  Kendyl Andrews' 19 service aces rank in a tie-for-fourth in the league while Dulgar's 16 are close behind her in a tie-for-10th.  Defensively, Andrews ranks third in the GLIAC in digs with 186 while Giroux is slotted in a tie-for-eighth in total blocks with 33.

About Saginaw Valley State
Led by 21st-year head coach Will Stanton, Saginaw Valley State comes into this meeting with Wayne State having lost nine matches in a row.  During that span, the Cardinals have taken just one match to five sets and been victorious in five sets total.  Offensively for SVSU, Madison Thompson is on top of the kills department with 118, while a pair of setters contribute to the attack, including Ava Beard (248 assists) and McKenna Sovis (112 assists).  Elizabeth Bruschuk has been the Cardinals' best server with 16 aces followed closely by Beard's 14.  Defensively, Saginaw Valley State's story has been about Kelsey Vittitow (188 digs) and Madison Smith (37 total blocks).