Opponent	Coppin State Eagles
Date	Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Time	7:00 p.m.
Location	Baltimore, Md. | Reitz Arena
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Game Notes	Loyola

Crosstown Clash

• Loyola plays its final midweek non-conference match of the season on Tuesday, September 17, when it hosts Coppin State University at 7 p.m. in Reitz Arena.
• The match will be streamed live on the Patriot League Network.

Last Time Out

• Loyola won the Charm City Challenge presented by Residence Inn by Marriott Owings Mills last weekend, taking matches against Canisius College, UNC Charlotte and UMBC.
• The Greyhounds opened the weekend with a four-set victory against Canisius, the MAAC preseason favorite, as Abby Hamilton put away 18 kills and had 17 digs. Ann Ernst and Molly Jarvis each added 10 kills, while Cat Vaccaro had nine.
• Loyola then swept Charlotte on Friday night, hitting .242 against the 49ers team that entered the weekend third in Conference USA with a .180 opponent hitting percentage. Hamilton finished one off her career-high with 20 kills, and Ann Ernst added 13 in the match.
• The Greyhounds finished off the tournament with a four-set win over UMBC, hitting .242 to the Retrievers' .117. Hamilton recorded 17 kills, and Mackenzie Fedota posted 13 while Ashley Dwyer had a career-high 52 assists. 

Awards For Abby & Ashley (Katie, too)

• Abby Hamilton and Ashley Dwyer swept the Patriot League's weekly awards on Monday after leading the Greyhounds to a 4-0 week (a Tuesday win at Howard prior to the Charm City Challenge title). Hamilton earned her first career Player of the Week nod, and Dwyer was the conference's Rookie of the Week.
• Hamilton was named the Most Valuable Player of the tournament after averaging 5.0 kills and 2.25 digs per set in the three matches. She hit .264 from the outside in the matches and had 17 or more kills in all three contests.
• Dwyer joined Hamilton on the All-Tournament Team after averaging 11 assists per set as the Greyhounds hit a strong .220 during the four matches, exactly 50 points higher that their hitting percentage entering the week. She opened the tournament with a then-career-high 48 assists to go with 11 digs versus preseason MAAC favorite Canisius, and she added 41 in just three sets versus Charlotte, a team that was third in opposing hitting percentage in Conference USA prior to the week.
• Dwyer then had 51 assists in just four sets on Saturday against UMBC in a match that she also had four kills and eight digs.
• Katie Forsythe was named to the All-Tournament Team, too, averaging 5.73 digs in the 11 sets. Forsythe had just two receiving errors in 60-plus opportunities in serve-receive.

Measuring Up

• Loyola ranks 11th in NCAA Division I in total kills this season with 526, and the Greyhounds are eighth overall in assists (498). Loyola's 645 digs are 14th nationally.
• Katie Forsythe is fifth in Division I with 215 digs, while Ann Ernst is 27th in total points (165.5) and 28th in kills (148).

Career-High To Start

• Ann Ernst came out of the gates with a strong performance for the Greyhounds against Furman in the first match of 2019. She posted a career-best 26 kills against the Paladins to top her previous best of 24 she put away against Akron her freshman year.
• Against Montana State, Ernst became the first Loyola player to reach 1,200 career kills since the NCAA transitioned to 25-point rally scoring. This year, she is averaging 3.61 kills per set, a career-high number.
• Ernst led the Patriot League in kills per set last season (3.58), and her .192 hitting percentage was more than 40 points higher than her .148 career mark. Heading into the season, Ernst had hit .125 in her first two campaigns, but last year, she swung at a .192 clip while having a career-low number of errors to go with a career-high number of attack attempts.
• Over the course of her three-plus seasons – Ernst has played in 96 career matches – she has recorded 10 or more kills 70 times (72.9 percent of the time), 15 or more kills 39 times (40.6) and 20 or more 11 times (11.5).

Records In The Rear-View Mirror

• During the first weekend of November 2018, Katie Forsythe set a pair of single-season digs records, rewriting history at both the school and conference levels. In Loyola's win at College of the Holy Cross, her 14th and final dig gave her 613 to break the Patriot League record set by Bucknell's Kristen Sydlowski in 2006. The next night, in a five-set win at the U.S. Military Academy, Forsythe totaled 23 digs, passing Brittany Born's school record of 626 digs in 2007 in the process.
• She ended the year by earning All-Patriot League First Team honors and becoming the first player in conference history to earn Rookie and Libero of the Year recognition. She finished 2018 fourth in NCAA Division I in digs per set (5.86) and seventh in total digs (697).
• During the 2018 season, Forsythe earned Patriot League Rookie of the Week honors six times and was named the VolleyMob.com National Player of the Week in October. She had 13 or more digs in all 29 of the Greyhounds' matches, 20 or more 20 times, six matches with 30-plus and two with 41 or more. In her third career game, the Perry, Ohio-native set the school record with 41 digs in a match against Towson University. She broke that later in the season, tallying 42 in October against College of the Holy Cross.
• She opened the 2019 campaign in much the same fashion, earning All-Tournament Honors at the Cavalier Classic and the Charm City Challenge.
• In only 40 career matches, Forsythe is 88 digs shy of reaching 1,000.

Ashley's Assists

• After playing with a 6-2 rotation in the first four matches of the season, Ashley Dwyer became Loyola's setter in a 5-1 on September 6 against Western Michigan. In the six games since, she is averaging 10.64 assists per set, and Loyola is hitting .206. The Greyhounds hit just .163 in the first four matches of the year.
• Dwyer has posted 35 or more assists in the six matches as the primary setter and has 41 in all but one. She had a career-high 52 in four sets against UMBC.