All four Southern California teams came awfully close to advancing to the second round of the NCAA Beach Volleyball Championships.<\/p>\n
UCLA and USC swept their way out of the first round and last year\u2019s finalist, Loyola Marymount, narrowly got by, while Long Beach State lost a heartbreaker on Friday in Gulf Shores, Alabama.<\/p>\n
The third-seeded Bruins (31-6) eliminated 14th-seeded Tulane, thanks to the teams of Maggie Boyd and Sally Perez (21-16, 21-14), Kaley Mathews and Ensley Alden (21-10, 21-16) and Kenzie Brower and Mallory LaBreche (21-12, 21-13).<\/p>\n
The fourth-seeded Trojans (29-11), whose run of four consecutive national titles was upended last year in the semifinals, similarly took care of 13th-seeded Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, with Ashley Pater and Kennedy Coakley (21-12, 21-12), Madison Goellner and Kaileigh Truslow (21-14, 21-9) and Quincy Stephens and Kerry Keefe (21-7, 21-13) doing the honors.<\/p>\n
The seventh-seeded Lions (30-10), who fell to TCU, 3-2, in the championship match last year, got even with the 10th-seeded Horned Frogs, ousting the defending champs, 3-2.<\/p>\n
Chloe Hooker and Ines Piret won their opener, 21-11, 21-17, to get LMU on the board, but TCU took the next two matches. Facing elimination, Maja Kruczek and Josefine Schaekel stormed back to tie it with a 14-21, 27-25, 15-13 victory. That left Tanon Rosenthal and Anna Pelloia to close it out with a 27-25, 21-17 victory.<\/p>\n
Ninth-seeded Long Beach (25-12) had arguably the most entertaining match of the day before falling to eighth-seeded Cal, 3-2.<\/p>\n
It came down to the final pairing as LBSU\u2019s Victoria Henkel and Savannah Standage, after splitting the first two sets, rallied for match point at 14-12, but Cal\u2019s Gia Fisher and Ava Haughy fought it off for their own match point. Henkel and Standage staved it off twice before Cal came out on top, 18-16.<\/p>\n
Tineke Hinton and Demi Wagdy (19-21, 21-17, 15-10) and Kealoha Phillips and Brooke Birch (21-13, 19-21, 15-9) collected hard-fought wins for Long Beach.<\/p>\n
All second-round matches Saturday will air on ESPN2, as will the semifinals later that day at 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. The championship match is Sunday at 9:30 a.m. on ESPN.<\/p>\n
NCAA Beach Volleyball Championships Second Round<\/p>\n
7 a.m.: No. 1 Stanford vs. No. 8 Cal<\/p>\n
8 a.m.: No. 4 USC vs. No. 5 Florida State<\/p>\n
9 a.m.: No. 2 Texas vs. No. 7 Loyola Marymount<\/p>\n
10 a.m.: No. 3 UCLA vs. No. 6 Cal Poly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All four Southern California teams came awfully close to advancing to the second round of the NCAA Beach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1327,131,133,132,26758,127,10992,125696,2468],"class_list":["post-296315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-college-sports","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-state-sports","tag-sports","tag-ucla-sports","tag-usc-sports","tag-volleyball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296315","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=296315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}