The Delaware State volleyball team tied the program record with its 23rd win of the season, outlasting Coppin State 3-2 in a MEAC contest on Sunday.

The Hornets, now 23-3 overall and tied for first in the MEAC with an 11-2 league mark, matching the top wins total in program history first set by the 1987 squad (23-6).

Delaware State won the match by scores of 23-25, 25-23, 25-19, 21-25, 15-10.

Delaware State can set the school single-season wins record and clinch at least a share of the MEAC regular-season title on Friday in its finale at Maryland-Eastern Shore. The Hornets also completed a regular-season sweep of Coppin State, the preseason MEAC favorite.

DSU’s Karen Cordero was named the MEAC Player of the Week after combining for 30 kills (.269 hitting pct.), two aces and 26 digs in a 2-0 week for the Hornets. Jamal Cruz was selected as the MEAC’s Co-Defensive Player of the Week after recording a career-high 32 digs on Sunday.

College soccer

UD fires men’s coach: Ian Hennessy, who led Delaware’s soccer team to pair of CAA titles as well as the program’s first NCAA Tournament win, will not return as the Blue Hens’ coach.

Delaware made the NCAAs in 2011, ‘13 and ‘16. In 2011, the Hens knocked off Virginia, 1-0, in the first round of the NCAAs before losing at UCLA, 1-0, in the second round.

But Delaware has gone only 17-29-11 over the past five seasons without winning more than five games in any of them. (The Hens played only five games last spring). Delaware went 2-12-1 this past fall.

Hessessy finishes with a 16-year record of 108-138-36 at UD.

“I want to thank Ian for his commitment to the University of Delaware and the men’s soccer program,” said athletic director Chrissi Rawak. “Our men’s soccer student-athletes have excelled in the classroom and in the community during Ian’s tenure at UD. At this time, we felt it was necessary for us to provide new leadership for our program.”

College field hockey

Hens to host Fairfield in NCAA: The CAA champion Delaware field hockey team will host NEC champion Fairfield on Wednesday at 1 p.m. in the first round of the NCAA Division I Tournament.

The winner will play at No. 1-ranked Rutgers on Friday at 11 a.m.

College golf

DSU’s Khunsri recognized: Delaware State senior Nattavadee Khunsri earned Honorable Mention recognition for Southland Conference Golfer of the Month.

Khunsri won the individual championship at the Navy Invitational with a two-day total of 138, six under par for the tournament, and seven strokes ahead of the second-place finisher. She also was tied for fourth among 50 competitors at the Lehigh University Invitational with a score of 77.

College bowling

Hornets place seventh: The Delaware State women’s bowling team opened its schedule with a seventh-place finish out of 15 teams at the Kat Klash hosted by Sam Houston State in Texas.

The Hornets posted a 6-7 overall record in the event, which featured 10 teams ranked in the National Tenpin Coaches Association preseason poll. Delaware State is 14th in the preseason rankings.