LONG BEACH, Calif.\u00a0\u2014 Seeking to match its best-ever finish at the Big West Challenge, CSUN\u00a0Beach Volleyball came up just short of three wins as the Matadors finished 1-2 on the second and final day of the event on Sunday at Rosie’s Dog Beach. After finishing 1-2 on Saturday, CSUN opened the day with a 4-1 win over Sacramento State, before falling to No. 13 Hawai’i (4-1) and UC Davis (3-2) to wrap up the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n
CSUN 4, SACRAMENTO STATE 1 Haley Coggins<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Daysha Halbert<\/a>\u00a0clinched the win on the No. 5 court, taking a 21-18, 19-21, 15-10 victory over Skyler Gartin and Keonahi’ila Solaits, before Jill Rodig<\/a> and Ainsley Patrick<\/a> gave the Matadors their fourth win, 21-14, 20-22, 15-11 over Karlie Spohn and Greta Davis at No. 4.\u00a0The Hornets salvaged one win when Victoria Marthaler and Aurora Bibolotti held off Tia Mendiola<\/a> and\u00a0Zaria Henderson<\/a>\u00a0in the No. 2 pair by the score of 16-21, 21-19, 15-12.<\/p>\n #13 HAWAI’I 4, CSUN 1 After Coggins and Halbert and Rodig and Patrick came up empty in straight sets at No. 5 and No. 4 to open the dual, Heflin and Miles fell 21-8, 21-13 at No. 1 as Hawai’i clinched the dual.<\/p>\n With a straight-set (21-18, 21-19) win over Julia Thelle and Sophie Buschmann, Hall and Rogers pulled the Matadors within 3-1 while earning CSUN’s second pairs win over Hawai’i in 12 matches all time.<\/p>\n Rodig and Patrick then fell 21-13, 21-13 to\u00a0Emily Heintzelman and\u00a0Kiera Cornman at No. 4 to close out a 4-1 win for the Rainbow Wahine.<\/p>\n UC DAVIS 3, CSUN 2 The Aggies claimed the opening point of the dual when Ava Berard and Kirra Martin swept Coggins and Halbert, 21-16, 25-23. Hall and Rogers pulled CSUN even with a three-set (19-21, 21-15, 15-11) win over\u00a0Skye Smolinski and Kate O’Steen on the No. 3 court. Looking to put the Matadors in front, Rodig and Patrick would also go three sets\u00a0before falling to Emma Johnson and\u00a0Alexandra Leal, 18-21, 21-8, 15-10.<\/p>\n The Aggies would clinch the win on the No. 2 court when Kaitlynn Chastain and Shelby Santos held off Mendiola and Henderson in three sets, 21-17, 15-21, 15-11. Heflin and Miles would make the final 3-2 with a hard-fought 25-27, 21-15, 18-16 win over Kinley Lindhart and\u00a0Ella Erteltova at the No. 1 spot.<\/p>\n HEAD COACH JEFF HALL SAID UP NEXT #GoMatadors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif.\u00a0\u2014 Seeking to match its best-ever finish at the Big West Challenge, CSUN\u00a0Beach Volleyball came up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-231961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231961","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=231961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Matadors opened Sunday against the Hornets and claimed wins in the first four pairs to earn their second win of the weekend. Dylan Hall<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Ava Rogers<\/a>\u00a0opened the scoring with an impressive \u00a021-12, 21-13 sweep over Kate Dorn and Mia Guevara on the No. 3 court.\u00a0Hannah Heflin<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Maleya Miles<\/a>\u00a0made it 2-0 CSUN with a 21-14, 27-25 win over Reese Ampi and Ashlynn Archer in the\u00a0No. 1 pair.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nLooking for their first-ever win over the Rainbow Wahine, the Matadors got a pairs win from Hall and Rogers, but dropped the remaining four pairs to fall 4-1.<\/p>\n
\nLooking for their third win on the weekend, which would match the 2019 Matador team for CSUN’s best-ever finish, the Matadors fell in a tight 3-2 decision to UC Davis.<\/p>\n
\n“A fun weekend of Big West competition. Had a couple of nice wins, fell short on a few, ready to get back to work on Monday.”<\/p>\n
\nCSUN next travels to Irvine for a Friday\u00a0(Mar. 27) tri-dual as the Matadors take on Vanguard at 9 a.m. and Concordia Irvine at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n