With the volleyball season coming to a close, seniors Corey Domek and Shari Luther are ready to give it all they’ve got.

On paper, this has been the team’s worst season in their four years at BG, but they still aren’t ready to give up hope. They may be going about it in a different way though.

‘In a way, yeah,’ Luther said of approaching the last four games of the season differently. ‘We always want to play well as a team and play competitively, but knowing these will be my last few matches, I’m going to play as hard as I can.’

Domek is on the same page.

‘It is finally hitting me [that] the season is winding down,’ she said. ‘If we do well in the next matches, we’ll have a chance to play at home [in the first round of the Mid-American Conference Tournament.]’

She’s right about that.

With four MAC games remaining, the Falcons will be battling for position and a possible home game in the first round of the MAC Tournament.

If BG can win twice this weekend, they will have a chance to earn a home game at Anderson Arena.

It all starts tonight at 7 p.m. when the Falcons (10-17, 3-9 MAC) travel to Oxford to take on the Miami RedHawks. Miami enters today with a record of 14-10 overall and 9-3 in MAC play. They have won three straight and five of their last six, bringing the RedHawks to second place in the MAC East Division.

Earlier this season, BG was swept by the RedHawks, but Domek thinks the team needs to go about it in relatively the same way.

‘We have to play our game,’ she said. ‘They’re beatable. We’ve got a really good game plan. We’re going to try and take some different shots.’

Miami’s Mari Leahy leads the team with 2.90 kills per set and is the team leader with 23 aces. She ranks second on the team with 2.57 digs per set.

Luther plans on going right at Miami.

‘We have to put a lot of pressure on them,’ she said. ‘We have to show a lot of energy.”