{"id":45287,"date":"2025-11-09T12:48:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T12:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/45287\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T12:48:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T12:48:41","slug":"womens-volleyball-falls-in-first-match-of-road-trip-at-cal-poly-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/45287\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Volleyball Falls In First Match Of Road Trip At Cal Poly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. \u2013 Cal Poly set the tone with a fast start against Long Beach State and settled the tie between the two teams near the top of the standings in a 25-19, 25-18, 25-20 win for the Mustangs on the road Friday night.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLong Beach State (17-7, 10-3 Big West) was led by <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/logan-king\/8407\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8407\" target=\"_blank\">Logan King<\/a> with 11 kills, while <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/elise-agi\/8380\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8380\" target=\"_blank\">Elise Agi<\/a> returned after a week on the sidelines by coming close to a double-double with nine kills and 10 digs. Cal Poly (20-5, 11-2 Big West) outhit the Beach .275 to .193 and had a big advantage on the service line, making nine aces on the night.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCal Poly got off to a fast start against Long Beach State, setting the tone for the evening from Mott Athletics Center. The Mustangs opened the match on a 7-2 run, getting an ace from Emme Bullis and pushing out to a 15-6 lead. Trailing 20-11 in towards the end of the set, Long Beach State battled back, cutting the lead to 22-18 on a block from King and <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/rhiann-sheffie\/8386\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8386\" target=\"_blank\">Rhiann Sheffie<\/a> to force a Cal Poly timeout. The Mustangs were able to close out the set in a 25-19 win.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWith the momentum from their comeback, the second set was much closer throughout. Tied at 10-10, the Beach found Agi for a kill, and then King put the Beach on top 13-11. Cal Poly was able to battle back and took a lead of their own at 17-15 on a kill from Chloe Leluge. Three aces down the stretch from Cal Poly helped the Mustangs close out the second set 25-18.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Beach took an early lead again in the third, moving in front 8-6 on a Kendall Beshear service error. Cal Poly rallied with a 4-0 run, however, and pushed out to a 15-11 lead before closing out the set and the match with a 25-20 win.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Beach continues their trip to the Central Coast with another match Saturday, taking on UC Santa Barbara at 7 p.m. with live coverage on ESPN+.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. \u2013 Cal Poly set the tone with a fast start against Long Beach State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-45287","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\/45287","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=45287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}