AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 No. 17-ranked North Florida Beach Volleyball dropped a pair of close ranked matches against No. 10 Long Beach State and No. 3 USC to open the Texas Invitational on Friday at Texas’s ATX Beach.<\/p>\n
Senior pair Andrea Da Silva Encinas<\/a> and Madison Espy<\/a> went unbeaten on the day at the three line.\u00a0
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\nJunior Eden Anderson<\/a> and freshman Ally Bunch<\/a> posted a 22-20, 21-15 win on the four line, while Da Silva Encinas and Espy recorded a\u00a021-18, 9-21, 15-13 win at the three position against No. 10 Long Beach State.\u00a0
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\nDa Silva Encinas and Espy added another ranked win against No. 3 USC, 21-16, 21-13.\u00a0
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\nNorth Florida battles No. 1 UCLA at 10:30 a.m. and No. 2 Stanford at 12:30 p.m. ET to close out the Texas Invitational on Saturday, March 28.\u00a0
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\nNO. 17 NORTH FLORIDA 2, NO. 10 LONG BEACH STATE 3
\n1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Taylor Hagenah\/Malia Gementera (LBSU) def. Presley Murray<\/a>\/Sophia Notaro<\/a> (UNF), 21-13, 21-14
\n2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Tineke Hinton\/Demi Wagdy (LBSU) def. Cameron Humphries<\/a>\/Mackenzie Murphy<\/a> (UNF), 21-18, 21-13
\n3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Andrea Da Silva Encinas<\/a>\/Madison Espy<\/a> (UNF) def. Kiara Edwards\/Savannah Standage, 21-18, 9-21, 15-13
\n4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Eden Anderson<\/a>\/Ally Bunch<\/a> (UNF) def. Victoria Henkel\/Josie Gamberdella (LBSU), 22-20, 21-15
\n5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Kealoha Phillips\/Brooke Birch (LBSU) def. Kamryn McDonald<\/a>\/Samantha Crosby<\/a> (UNF), 21-19, 16-21, 15-13
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\nNO. 17 NORTH FLORIDA 1, NO. 3 USC 4
\n1. \u00a0 \u00a0Kennedy Coakley\/Ashley Pater (USC) def. Cameron Humphries<\/a>\/Mackenzie Murphy<\/a> (UNF), 22-20, 21-17
\n2. \u00a0 \u00a0Sarah Wood\/Zoey Henson (USC) def. Presley Murray<\/a>\/Sophia Notaro<\/a> (UNF), 21-19, 21-14
\n3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Andrea Da Silva Encinas<\/a>\/Madison Espy<\/a> (UNF) def. Quincy Stephens\/Alana Embry (USC), 21-16, 21-13
\n4. \u00a0 \u00a0Kerry Keefe\/Bella Satterwhite (USC) def. Eden Anderson<\/a>\/Ally Bunch<\/a> (UNF), 21-13, 21-14
\n5. \u00a0 \u00a0Calinda Kok\/Kyra Zaengle (USC) def.\u00a0Kamryn McDonald<\/a>\/Samantha Crosby<\/a> (UNF), 21-17, 21-12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 No. 17-ranked North Florida Beach Volleyball dropped a pair of close ranked matches against No.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-240082","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\/240082","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=240082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}