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Volleyball makes it to MAC tournament

By Drew Conover · Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017

After four straight wins, Eastern Michigan’s women’s volleyball team found themselves sneaking into the MAC tournament. The team managed to win their first round matchup against Buffalo, 3-1, before falling to Ohio in the following round with a score of 1-3. Coming into the tournament as the lowest seed, being able to upset Buffalo in the first round is more than enough to deem their tournament berth successful. 

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Volleyball qualifies for MAC tournament

By Drew Conover · Monday, Nov. 20, 2017

The Eastern Michigan University’s women’s volleyball team qualified for the MAC tournament following a streak of four wins straight that started on senior weekend against Western Michigan and Northern Illinois. 

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Eagles claim match in three straight sets against Western Michigan Volleyball

By Drew Conover · Monday, Nov. 6, 2017

Eastern Michigan’s women’s volleyball team took to the court Nov. 3 at the Convocation Center for a matchup against in-state rival Western Michigan. Despite coming into the match with a worse record compared to the Broncos, Eastern took the match in a 3-0 sweep. The victory marks the 12th victory on the season for the Eagles and the fourth victory in-conference. 

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Volleyball loses pair of road matches

By Drew Conover · Monday, Oct. 30, 2017

Eastern Michigan University’s volleyball team left the nest for a set of road matches against Bowling Green and Miami of Ohio. The Eagles lost both games to their fellow MAC opponents by a combined score of 7-1. With the lose, EMU finds itself on a five-game losing streak, dropping the team to 10-14 overall with a 2-6 record in conference.

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Eagles Eye: 11/14

By Evan Hensley · Monday, Nov. 14, 2016

The Eastern Michigan football team came beck from a 21 point deficit to become bowl eligible for the first time in 20 years on Election Night at Ball State.

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Volleyball drops final two road matches

By Drew Conover · Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016

Troubles continued for the Eastern Michigan volleyball team in its matchups against Northern Illinois and Western Michigan this past week. The Eagles only manage to muster one set victory combined in both matches, giving them three set victories in their last five matches.

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Eagles Eye: 10/16

By Evan Hensley · Monday, Oct. 17, 2016

The Eastern Michigan football team won its third road game in a row against the Ohio Bobcats in a 27-20 game on Oct.

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Volleyball drops two matches as their offense struggles

By Drew Conover · Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016

The Eastern Michigan volleyball team headed home coming into the third week of October looking to slam the breaks and stop a recent losing skid with matchups against Bowling Green on Friday, Oct. 14th, and Miami (Ohio) on Saturday, Oct. 15th.

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Eagles drop their fifth straight road dual.

By Drew Conover · Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016

The Eastern Michigan Volleyball team fell to Miami University at the Convocation Center on Saturday in a 3-1 match. Miami came into town undefeated against Mid-American Conference opponents and a 15-4 record altogether. With Eastern Michigan looking to halt a four game losing skid at home before heading back on the road.

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Volleyball is shutout by the Falcons

By Drew Conover · Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016

Friday night the Eastern Michigan volleyball team defeated by Bowling Green University in another Middle American Conference matchup that the Eagles have found themselves on the losing end. Following a string of recent losses the Eagles looked to draw energy from being back at home following a pair of hard fought matches on the road. Despite strong support from fans and vocal local youth volleyball team the Eagles would drop the match in three sets to the Falcons.

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Eagles drop two on the road

By Drew Conover · Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016

Heading into the second week of October the Eastern Michigan Volleyball team found themselves in the middle of the pack in the West division of the Mid-American Conference and would remain there following two losses this week. With matchups against cross state rival Central Michigan and Ohio, the Eagles found themselves poised to boost their standing within the division. However, with the two losses the Eagles now find themselves located in the bottom three teams in the division while being two games below .500 in the MAC.

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Eagles go 1-1 at home

By Drew Conover · Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016

The Eastern Michigan volleyball team finally made its way back home following a pair of road Mid-American Conference opponent matchups last week to take on the Western Michigan Broncos Friday, Sept. 29, at 7 pm in the Convocation Center. The team was fresh off of a 1-1 weekend the week prior and looked to take more steps in the right direction.

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Volleyball finishes 1-1 on MAC opening weekend

By Drew Conover · Monday, Sept. 26, 2016

The Eastern Michigan volleyball (6-9) took on a pair of Mid-American Conference opponents on the road this weekend. To kick off the set on Friday, the Eagles headed down to Ohio with a matchup with the Toledo Rockets (8-6). The Rockets came into the matchup with a 7-5 out of conference record, which was two games better than EMU. Despite being behind in record when entering the match the Eagles were able to take the match in five sets.

Eastern Michigan was defeated in the first round of the MAC Tournament by Western Michigan in five sets on Thursday. 

Volleyball drops fifth straight match

By Robert Sherman · Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015

The Eastern Michigan University volleyball team suffered its fifth straight loss on Friday night, dropping a match against Central Michigan University in four sets (27-25, 25-22, 25-23 and 25-20), making qualifying for the Mid-American Conference a little more difficult as the end of the season approaches.

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Eagles come back in 3-1 victory over Ball State

By Robert Sherman · Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015

The Eastern Michigan University volleyball team hosted the Ball State University Cardinals in a Saturday evening Mid-American Conference matchup that resulted in a 3-1 victory at the Convocation Center. Despite falling in its first set to the Cardinals (9-11, 3-3 MAC), the Eagles (11-8, 3-3 MAC) were able to overcome the set back and win three consecutive sets to capture the victory.

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