Southern Miss volleyball heads to Huntington, West Virginia, for its final regular-season series, facing Marshall on Thursday, Nov. 12, and Friday, Nov. 13. The Golden Eagles are 16-9 overall and 7-7 in Sun Belt play; Marshall is 14-11 and also 7-7. Matches at the Cam Henderson Center are scheduled for 6:30 p.m. CT Thursday and 5 p.m. CT Friday.
The series gives both teams a final chance to build momentum before the Sun Belt Conference Championship, which begins Nov. 19 in Foley, Alabama. Southern Miss earned the West’s fifth seed for the third straight season after finishing 6-6 against divisional opponents. It will face East fourth seed Coastal Carolina in the opening round.
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Southern Miss split its final home series against South Alabama, losing 3-1 Friday before sweeping Saturday’s match 3-0 for its first home conference sweep of the season. In Friday’s loss, the Golden Eagles had a season-high 97 digs, led by Sunni Sheppard with 27 and Sadie McAda with 20. McAda added 13 kills for her 18th double-double of the season, while Allie Hazelwood recorded 43 assists and 16 digs.
In Saturday’s sweep, Southern Miss led South Alabama 47-35 in kills and 63-56 in digs and hit .205. McAda had 16 kills and 10 digs for her 19th double-double. Hazelwood reached 1,000 career assists and recorded her ninth double-double; Diana Wells added 11 kills, and Sheppard led the match with 19 digs.
Marshall has lost its last four matches, including two four-set defeats to App State in Boone, North Carolina, last weekend. The Thundering Herd earned the East’s third seed and will face Troy in the tournament quarterfinals. In conference play, Marshall ranks seventh in kills per set, sixth in digs per set and eighth in hitting percentage.
Marshall leads the teams’ all-time volleyball series 15-14 after 29 matches. The teams have met in a series in each of the past three seasons: Marshall swept in Huntington in 2024, and Southern Miss swept in Hattiesburg in 2025.
Jon Ross Myers founded Mississippi News Group in 2013. Before founding the organization, he worked at The Daily Mississippian, The Marion Salute and The Southern Sentinel. A Mississippi journalist and writer based in Ripley, he received second place in poetry in the 2025 William Faulkner Literary Competition for "The Garden."
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