Megan Fesl and the Notre Dame volleyball team play Marquette.

Watch Volleyball Battle Marquette

Oct. 6, 2006

For the first time this season live video of the match is available. Watch the Irish take on the Golden Eagles (7-8, 3-1 BIG EAST) in the Joyce Center at 3 p.m.

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The Irish and Golden Eagles are rivals in the same conference for the third different time and will play for the second time since 1997 and the ninth time overall … Notre Dame has won all eight previous matches, holding a 24-2 advantage in game victories … the most-recent match saw the Irish triumph 30-24, 28-30, 30-21, 30-27 at the Al McGuire Center in ’05 … Notre Dame has never dropped a game at home to the Golden Eagles in three previous appearances at the Joyce Center … Marquette is the only school that has been in all three of Notre Dame’s volleyball conferences with the Irish … the teams played as North Star Conference members from 1985-87 and then were Midwestern Collegiate Conference foes for one year (1990) before Marquette joined the BIG EAST in 2004 … the Irish won 15-3, 15-4, 15-5 at the Joyce Center in 1986 … the schools first met in 1985 in Dayton, Ohio, with the Irish prevailing in three games … the teams played five times as NSC members and then once in ’90, but have met just twice since Marquette left the MCC … 2002 graduate Marcie Bomhack (Waukesha, Catholic Memorial H.S., Milwaukee Sting VBC) – now the head coach at Loyola University Chicago – remains the only Wisconsin native ever to play volleyball for the Irish … on Oct. 3, 1986, in the Joyce Center, ND finished with a .539 hitting percentage (52 kills, 4 errors, 89 attempts), which still stands as the highest in program history in any-length match.