Southern Miss, 4-1, will host the Southern Miss Invitational from Sept. 10-12 at the Southern Miss Wellness Center in Hattiesburg. The Golden Eagles will play four matches during the event.
Southern Miss opens against Houston Christian, 1-5, at 6 p.m. CT on Thursday and plays Lamar, 0-6, at 6:30 p.m. Friday. The Golden Eagles face Southern, 1-3, at noon Saturday before closing the invitational against Jackson State, 3-4, at 5 p.m.
The other matches are Lamar vs. Southern at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Jackson State vs. Houston Christian at 1 p.m. Friday, Southern vs. Houston Christian at 4 p.m. Friday and Lamar vs. Jackson State at 2:30 p.m. Saturday.
Senior setter Allie Hazelwood leads the Sun Belt with 10.61 assists per set, while senior outside hitter Sadie McAda is coming off a week in which she led the conference with 4.71 kills per set. Southern Miss also led the conference in digs per set a week ago with 16.71.
Southern Miss split two matches at last weekend’s Rebel Volleyball Classic in Oxford, sweeping Central Arkansas 3-0 before losing to host Ole Miss 3-1.
All four Southern Miss matches will be streamed on ESPN+, with live statistics available through StatBroadcast.
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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