NEC Volleyball Games of the Weekend: Mercyhurst At FDU

This weekend, NEC Blitz is all about the Lake Show.

Mercyhurst is fresh off of its first win in NEC play after splitting their opening series with Stonehill. The Lakers feature Paige Miller and, as the season progresses, we expect them to have one of the bigger homefield advantages in the NEC.

Why? Well, they have this guy marking out for them:

Among NEC schools, Mercyhurst leads the conference in “fans that seem to be channeling Brock Lesnar”

With this kind of support for the Lakers, they’re going to be hard to beat in Erie.

That said, Mercyhurst is on the road this week, and they’re making the most treacherous trip in the entire conference right now to face the FDU Knights. The Knights are on an 8 game winstreak and have become appointment viewing. They’re fresh off of a weekday dismantling of Stony Brook and, sitting at 2-0 in league play after wins against Le Moyne last weekend, we’re beginning to wonder if the 3rd place prediction for FDU was… let’s go with misguided.

With the Lakers breaking a slump and getting some confidence, look for Paige Miller and the Lakers to give it all they’ve got in our games of the weekend, a David vs. Goliath series with plenty of potential for high drama.