Volleyball Returns To Gillom For Matchup With Auburn

RALLY POINTS
• Ole Miss welcomes Auburn to Oxford for a Friday night tilt in Gillom.
• Samantha Schnitta tallied a season-high 15 kills in back-to-back matches at South Carolina last weekend as Ole Miss split the series.
• The Rebels are 7-3 in their last 10 matches. They sit sixth in the SEC at 7-6 on the year.
• Setter Aly Borellis ranks eighth nationally among freshmen with 10.15 assists per set.
• Last time she played in Gillom, freshman Vivian Miller had a career night, tallying 21 kills.
• The Rebels’ middle blocker duo of Payton Brgoch and Sasha Ratliff ranks as one of the conference’s best. Both rank inside the top five in hitting percentage and top 15 in blocks per set.
• Freshmen Aly Borellis, Cammy Niesen and Vivian Miller have turned heads in the SEC, garnering a combined four weekly honors this season.
• Senior Anna Bair picked up her 1,000th career kill on September 30, becoming just the 15th Rebel in program history to accomplish the feat.
• Middle blocker Sasha Ratliff was one of 15 student-athletes named to the Preseason All-SEC Team.

SCOUTING THE TIGERS

Having one of the best seasons in program history, Auburn and coach Brent Crouch head to Oxford with a 20-5 record on the season. The Tigers are 9-5 in conference play and are coming off a series sweep of Texas A&M at home. Freshman Akasha Anderson leads the Auburn offense, piling up 369 kills, the third-most in the SEC. Setter Jackie Barrett has the Tigers hitting at a .255 clip as a team, feeding them with 10.32 assists per set. Defensively, freshman Kendal Kemp leads the team with 135 total blocks on the season, ranking ninth in the country and first among freshmen. Auburn also ranks second in the SEC and 33rd nationally with 243.0 total blocks this season.

SERIES HISTORY

Ole Miss leads the all-time series with Auburn 37-30 and has won each of the previous two meetings. In the last 10 years, all but two matches have been at least four sets.

PREVIOUS MEETING

AUBURN, Ala. — Ole Miss kicked off SEC play with a 3-1 win on The Plains against Auburn.

Auburn came out hot, quickly opening up a 9-3 lead on the Rebels. The Tigers continued to increase the lead to 12 as Ole Miss tried to battle back. The Rebels staved off five straight set points but dropped the opening set 25-20. They continued into the second set with the same fire…