YPSILANTI, Mich. (EMUEagles.com) \u2013 The Eastern Michigan University volleyball team fell to Miami University, 3-0 (25-16, 25-23, 25-16), at the George Gervin GameAbove Center Friday, Oct. 16, dropping to 8-12 overall and 2-6 in MAC play.<\/p>\n
Lina Govoni<\/a> (Joliet, Ill.\/Joliet West) turned in a standout individual performance, recording a double-double with 15 assists and a career-high 17 digs while tying for the team lead with two service aces. Nattie Slusher<\/a> (Cincinnati, Ohio\/Seton) paced the Eagles in kills with six, and Olivia Stewart<\/a> (Aurora, Ill.\/Metea Valley) anchored the front row defense with four block assists to lead all Eastern Michigan players at the net.<\/p>\n Taeley Mahler<\/a> (Fort Wayne, Ind.\/Homestead) added five kills on 23 attacks, and Surabhi Srinivasan<\/a> (Dublin, Ohio\/Dublin Jerome) contributed 14 digs in a strong back-row effort. Govoni and Srinivasan combined for 31 of Eastern Michigan’s 57 total digs on the evening.<\/p>\n How It Happened SET TWO | Eastern showed its most competitive play in the second set. Govoni opened at the service line and served five straight points \u2014 including two aces \u2014 to give the Eagles a 5-0 lead and force an early Miami timeout. Eastern carried that energy to a 23-22 lead late in the set, but Miami responded to close out the set 25-23. Slusher contributed four of her six kills in the set, while the team recorded a team-best .146 hitting percentage.<\/p>\n SET THREE | Miami raced out to an early advantage in the third set, building a 12-8 lead, before back-to-back Eastern points cut the deficit to 12-10. The RedHawks responded by scoring the next four points, leading by at least four points the rest of the way and closing the set with a 25-16 win for the sweep.<\/p>\n Match Notes Historical Notes Up Next Follow Us
\nSET ONE | Miami University came out strong in the opening set, building a 12-6 advantage and never looking back, taking the set 25-16. Eastern Michigan recorded seven kills in the frame but was unable to generate consistent offensive momentum as Miami limited the Eagles to a .100 hitting percentage, compared to the RedHawks’ .262.<\/p>\n
\n\u00bb Lina Govoni<\/a> recorded a career-high 17 digs, surpassing her previous best of 15, set Sept. 11 against Montana, while also posting 15 assists and two service aces for her fifth career double-double.
\n\u00bb Surabhi Srinivasan<\/a> posted 14 digs, marking her 19th match with double-digit digs in the 2026 season across 20 matches played. She leads the MAC in total digs this season with 342.
\n\u00bb Olivia Stewart<\/a> led Eastern Michigan with four block assists \u2014 the second-highest single-match block assist total of her career at EMU, one match after setting her career high of five against Miami on Oct. 15.
\n\u00bb Taeley Mahler<\/a> recorded five kills to bring her career kill total at Eastern Michigan to 399, leaving her one kill shy of the 400-kill milestone.
\n\u00bb Nattie Slusher<\/a> led the Eagles in kills with six and leads all MAC freshmen in kills per set this season with 2.71.
\n\u00bb Mya Eberline (Edwardsburg, Mich.\/Edwardsburg) made her collegiate debut in the third set.
\n\u00bb Eastern Michigan falls to 8-12 overall and 2-6 in MAC play with the loss.<\/p>\n
\n\u00bb The all-time series between Eastern Michigan and Miami University now stands at 22-46 across 68 meetings. Miami won both this weekend’s home-and-home meetings, 3-1 on Oct. 15 and 3-0 on Oct. 16.
\n\u00bb EMU had won seven of the previous eight meetings in the all-time series before Miami’s back-to-back wins this weekend.
\n\u00bb The loss extended Eastern Michigan’s losing streak to four matches, the longest of the 2026 season.
\n\u00bb Surabhi Srinivasan<\/a> has recorded double-digit digs in 19 of 20 matches this season and leads the MAC in total digs.<\/p>\n
\nEastern Michigan returns to action Thursday, Oct. 22, at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.<\/p>\n
\nStay up to date with Eastern Michigan volleyball by following @EMUVolleyball and @EMUAthletics on social media, and visit EMUEagles.com for the latest news, stats and schedules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YPSILANTI, Mich. (EMUEagles.com) \u2013 The Eastern Michigan University volleyball team fell to Miami University, 3-0 (25-16, 25-23, 25-16),…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-430160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}