SMU volleyball traveled to Hattiesburg to take on Southern Miss in two back-to-back matches on Friday and Saturday and returned home with broken records (12-15, 8-7 in C-USA).
On Friday the Mustangs were unable to hold off the Golden Eagles after a 3-2 loss.
During the match, senior Jessica Oliver led the SMU with 14 kills while Dana Powell, Courtney Manning and Caroline Young followed closely behind with 12 kills each.
Powell, an outside hitter from Tulsa, finished the match with 19 digs to make her 16th doube-double of the season.
Sidney Stewart landed a team-high of 21 digs during Friday’s match while setters Kelli Becerra and Kendrick Koch hit their double-doubles.
Becerra recorded 16 assists and 11 digs while Koch left with 23 assists and 15 digs.
By the end of the match the senior from Austin, Becerra, recorded 1,179 digs to pass up Leslie Olson for most digs by an SMU setter.
After Friday night’s loss, the Mustangs came back on Saturday to win a five set match with Southern Miss.
Despite their loss to the Golden Eagles 25-20 in the first set of Saturday night’s match, the Mustangs bounced back and won the second set 25-23.
However, Southern Miss was putting up a fight and took the third set from SMU 25-23 to put the Mustangs in a 2-1 deficit.
The Mustang Stampede was able to break an 8-8 tie in the fourth set with a 7-3 run to push SMU on top 15-11.
After gaining the lead SMU continued on to win the fourth set 25-20.
SMU started the fifth set in a decisive manner.
Starting the set with a 4-1 lead, Southern Miss was never able to catch up and the Mustangs finished the fifth set ahead with a 15-12 win.
Stewart’s 31 digs led SMU to a record-setting 132 digs on Saturday night.
Oliver unleashed 16 kills during the match and Caroline Young had 15.
Powell added another double- double to her list with 11 kills and 26 digs during the match.
Setters Becerra and Koch also had double-doubles with Becerra having 33 assists and 27 digs and Koch scoring 25 assists and 13 digs.
Mid-blocker Courtney Manning neared a triple-double during the match with 14 kills, nine blocks and nine kills.
SMU volleyball is now 8-7 in Conference USA play.
The Mustangs will travel to Houston on Friday to take on the UH Cougars at 7 p.m. and Rice Owls on Sunday at 1 p.m.
The team will the return back to Moody Coliseum on Nov. 18, to take on UTEP.
The Mustangs will close out the regular season with a three-match stint at Moody Coliseum.