LONG BEACH, Calif.\u00a0\u2014 CSUN\u00a0Beach Volleyball earned a split in a tri-dual on Saturday at the LBSU Sand Courts. The Matadors (8-19) opened the day with a 4-1 win over Concordia Irvine, before falling 4-1 to 10th-ranked Long Beach State.<\/p>\n
CSUN 4, CONCORDIA IRVINE 1
\nThe Golden Eagles claimed the first point of the opening dual before the Matadors won four straight pairs to defeat Concordia for the second time in three meetings this season.<\/p>\n
Concordia picked up its only point on the No. 2 court when Gabrielle Reinking and Olivia Medina swept Tia Mendiola<\/a> and Zaria Henderson<\/a> by the score of 21-11, 21-13. CSUN pulled even in the No. 4 pair when Jill Rodig<\/a> and Ainsley Patrick<\/a> held off Madi Kelly and Jordan Vander Veen\u00a0in three sets, 21-15, 19-21, 15-8.<\/p>\n CSUN’s\u00a0No. 5 pair of Haley Coggins<\/a> and Daysha Halbert<\/a> won for the 12th time this season, giving the Matadors a 2-1 lead with a 19-21, 21-18, 15-10 victory over Emma Hugeback and Jayda Tupea. CSUN clinched the dual win when Hannah Heflin<\/a> and Maleya Miles<\/a> also won in three sets (21-18, 12-21, 19-17) over Kelia Giusta and Ashley Rossi on the No. 1 court. The final point also went to the Matadors as Dylan Hall<\/a> and Ava Rogers<\/a> earned their team-leading 14th win, defeating Rosie Cline and Aliyah Moore in straight sets, 21-18, 21-18 in the No. 3 pair.\u00a0 \n#10 LONG BEACH STATE 4, CSUN 1 Rodig and Patrick fell 21-9, 21-13 to Victoria Henkel and Savannah Standage to open the scoring on the No. 4 court. Mendiola and Henderson also came up empty in the No. 2, falling 21-17, 21-10 to Tineke Hinton and Demi Wagdy.<\/p>\n The Beach would clinch the dual win in the No. 5 pair when Kealoha Phillips and Brooke Birch defeated Coggins and Halbert, 21-14, 21-12. The Beach went up 4-0 when their No. 3 pair of Kiara Edwards and Mahala Esser held off Hall and Rogers in three sets, 21-16, 17-21, 15-8.<\/p>\n Heflin and Miles earned their second win of the day and 12th of the season, knocking off Malia Gementera and Taylor Hagenah,\u00a0who\u00a0came into the dual with a 20-9 season record. Heflin and Miles claimed the opening set 21-18 before dropping set two, 21-11. The decisive final set would go to extra points before Heflin and Miles pulled out an\u00a018-16 victory.\u00a0 \nHEAD COACH JEFF HALL SAID UP NEXT #GoMatadors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif.\u00a0\u2014 CSUN\u00a0Beach Volleyball earned a split in a tri-dual on Saturday at the LBSU Sand Courts.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-263770","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\/263770","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=263770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nLooking for their first-ever win over the Beach, the Matadors earned a win in the No. 1 pair, but Long Beach State would claim the other four pairs to earn the win.<\/p>\n
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\n“Fun day battling. Every match, the girls showed up to play, highlighted by our #1 pair beating Long Beach State’s #1 pair, who happen to be one of the best in the country.”<\/p>\n
\nCSUN plays its final three dual matches of the regular season next week. The Matadors travel to Los Angeles to meet No. 7 LMU on Friday (Apr. 17) at 1 p.m. before heading to Bakersfield for a tri-dual against the host Roadrunners and Pacific on Saturday, Apr. 18.<\/p>\n