LONG BEACH, Calif.\u00a0\u2014 CSUN\u00a0Beach Volleyball got back in the win column with a 5-0 victory over Cal State Bakersfield to highlight day one of the Big West Challenge on Saturday at Rosie’s Dog Beach. The Matadors (3-13) opened the day with a nail-biting 3-2 loss to No. 11 Long Beach State and closed the day with a 5-0 loss to No. 3 Cal Poly.<\/p>\n
#11 LONG BEACH STATE\u00a03, CSUN 2 Haley Coggins<\/a> and Daysha Halbert<\/a>\u00a0got CSUN on the board, earning a straight-set win over Sammy Okano and Nicole Lankto, 21-14, 21-19, before Dylan Hall<\/a> and Ava Rogers<\/a> evened the dual after taking a three-set (21-18, 9-21, 15-10) win over Victoria Henkel and Mahala Esser.<\/p>\n The match would come down to the No. 3 court, when\u00a0Jill Rodig<\/a> and Zaria Henderson<\/a> took the Beach’s Demi Wagdy and Mado Maxwell to the limit before falling 21-18, 16-21, 11-15 as the Beach clinched the win.<\/p>\n CSUN 5, CAL STATE BAKERSFIELD 0 Hall and Rogers earned the first Matador point, sweeping Ella Ensign and Ella Katey Milne at No. 4, 21-13, 21-18, CSUN went up 2-0 when Heflin and Miles made quick work of\u00a0Erika Markentin and\u00a0Olivia Silacci-Jensen, 21-16, 21-8. The Matadors would then clinch the dual victory when Mendiola and Henderson teamed up for the first time to sweep Vivi Kaelin and Kendall Kaelin, 21-19, 21-17 at No. 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n Rodig and Patrick, also teaming up for the first time, made it 4-0 with a 21-19, 22-20 win over Sophia Anderson and Olivia Ostler at No. 3. Coggins and Halbert would complete the CSUN sweep, earning a three-set (21-10, 18-21, 15-10) win over Havi Montano and Vianna Garcia on the No. 5 court.<\/p>\n #3 CAL POLY 5, CSUN\u00a00 Heflin and Miles fell to\u00a0Ella Connor and Erin Inskeep, 21-8, 21-11 at No. 1, before Rodig and Henderson fell to\u00a0Hannah Byers and Maddy Byrne at No. 4, 21-13, 21-13. Cal Poly clinched the dual win when Hall and Rogers dropped a 21-14, 21-14 decision to\u00a0Julia Westby and\u00a0Elise Lenahan at No. 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n The final two pairs also went to Cal Poly as Quinn Perry and\u00a0Ashleigh Adams swept Mendiola and Henderson, 21-12, 21-16 at No. 2 and\u00a0Peyton Dueck and\u00a0Bailey Showalter topped Coggins and Halbert, 21-8, 21-18.\u00a0<\/p>\n HEAD COACH JEFF HALL SAID UP NEXT #GoMatadors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif.\u00a0\u2014 CSUN\u00a0Beach Volleyball got back in the win column with a 5-0 victory over Cal State…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-230899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNo. 11 Long Beach State held on to defeat CSUN 3-2 to open the day. The Beach rolled to a pair of quick wins at the top of the dual as Malia Gementera and Taylor Hagenah swept Hannah Heflin<\/a> and Maleya Miles<\/a> 21-8, 21-14 in the No. 1 pair. At No. 2, Kiara Edwards and Savannah Standage\u00a0took a straight set win (21-16, 21-16) over Tia Mendiola<\/a> and Ainsley Patrick<\/a>\u00a0to put Long Beach up 2-0.<\/p>\n
\nIn the middle dual, CSUN snapped a five-match skid by defeating Cal State Bakersfield in all five pairs.<\/p>\n
\nThe Matadors closed the day, falling to the third-ranked Mustangs in all five pairs.<\/p>\n
\n“Really proud of the girls’ effort today. A great first win over a Big West opponent, hoping for a few more tomorrow.”<\/p>\n
\nCSUN concludes the Big West Challenge on Sunday as the Matadors take on Sacramento State, Hawai’i, and UC Davis.<\/p>\n