{"id":445830,"date":"2026-08-28T05:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T05:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/445830\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T05:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T05:18:12","slug":"wolves-fall-in-season-opener-to-stanislaus-state-in-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/445830\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves fall in season opener to Stanislaus State in Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"\n


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\"Menlo<\/p>\n

Next Match:<\/p>\n

vs. Menlo College<\/p>\n

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FRESNO, Calif. — The Western Oregon volleyball team fell to Stanislaus State 3-1 (25-12, 23-25, 25-17, 25-19) on Thursday at the Sunbird Classic in the Wolves’ season opener at the Special Events Center.<\/p>\n

WOU after dropping the first game bounced back to take a tight game two, using back-to-back kills from Payton Davis<\/a> and Finley Buman<\/a> to break a 22-22 tie before eventually getting a Malena Mathis<\/a> kill to take the set 25-23.<\/p>\n

However, the Wolves dropped the next two games and fell to the Warriors.<\/p>\n

Davis led WOU with 15 kills to go along with 11 digs, Kate Markley<\/a> had 14 kills and 10 digs while Mathis finished with nine kills. Buman added three blocks. Samantha Darby<\/a> led the team with 30 assists while Madi Noel<\/a> had a team-high 17 digs.<\/p>\n

The Wolves continue action at the event Friday with matches against Menlo College (2 p.m.) and host No. 11 Fresno Pacific (6 p.m.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Next Match: vs. Menlo College 8\/28\/2026 | 2 p.m. Aug. 28 (Fri) \/ 2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-445830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445830","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=445830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}