{"id":273501,"date":"2026-04-18T01:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/273501\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T01:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:32:08","slug":"close-dual-sees-12-sand-devils-fall-at-10-long-beach-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/273501\/","title":{"rendered":"Close dual sees #12 Sand Devils fall at #10 Long Beach State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Despite wins on courts two and five, No. 12 Sun Devil Beach Volleyball was unable to come away with a win at No. 10 Long Beach State, falling 3-2 on Friday at Long Beach City College.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona State (17-13) trailed 2-0 in the dual to Long Beach State (21-10). Though ASU was in close competition on most courts, the Beach was able to clinch on four before the Sun Devils got on the board with wins on two and five.<\/p>\n<p>At the No. 2 spot, graduate <a href=\"https:\/\/thesundevils.com\/sports\/beach-volleyball\/roster\/player\/reagan-hope\" title=\"Reagan Hope\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reagan Hope<\/a> and senior <a href=\"https:\/\/thesundevils.com\/sports\/beach-volleyball\/roster\/player\/daniella-kensinger\" title=\"Daniella Kensinger\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniella Kensinger<\/a> won their match in two sets, with each set going to extra points (22-20, 29-27). They improved to 11-6 as a pair.<\/p>\n<p>On court five, sophomores Zo\u1ebd Taylor and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesundevils.com\/sports\/beach-volleyball\/roster\/player\/layla-williams\" title=\"Layla Williams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Layla Williams<\/a> dropped their first set and then came back to win in three (15-21, 21-19, 15-13). Having only played four matches together, they are 2-2. Taylor\u2019s individual record improved to 18-10, tied for the third-best win total on the team.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<br \/>The Big 12 Beach Volleyball Championship is April 23-24 in Tucson, Arizona. The seedings are yet to be released.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us<br \/>For exclusive content, the latest updates, and more information on the Sun Devil Beach Volleyball, follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sundevilbeachvb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@sundevilbeachVB<\/a> on Instagram, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SunDevilBeachVB\" rel=\"nofollow\">@SunDevilBeachVB<\/a> on X, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sundevilbeachvb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sun Devil Beach Volleyball<\/a> on Facebook, and visit <a href=\"http:\/\/sundevils.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sundevils.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Despite wins on courts two and five, No. 12 Sun Devil Beach Volleyball was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-273501","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\/273501","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=273501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}