DAVIS, Calif. \u2014 Emma Fredrick racked up double-digit kills (17) for the third time this season as Cal Poly volleyball opened the UC Davis Invitational with a four-set victory (25-22, 25-22, 20-25, 26-24) over San Diego State on Friday afternoon at the University Credit Union Center.<\/p>\n
In a see-saw affair that featured 27 ties and nine lead changes, Cal Poly (3-1) outhit, killed, and blocked the Aztecs. The Mustangs hit .177 as a team with 53 kills, while their defense limited SDSU to a .172 hitting percentage.<\/p>\n
In both the first and second sets, the Mustangs fought from behind at times but always managed to come back for the win. San Diego State (3-2) came out strong in the third set to force a fourth, but the Mustangs once again rallied late in the tightest frame of the match to seal the victory in extra points.<\/p>\n
Senior middle blocker Breklyn Pulling was all over the net with a match-high six blocks to go with eight kills on .333 hitting, while outside hitter Emma Fredrick posted her own match-best 17 kills and added 11 digs, tied for second on the team.<\/p>\n
Kayla Murdoch was the other Mustang to reach double-digit kills (11), while Kendall Beshear added eight as well. Beshear shined even more on the defensive side, tallying a team-leading 16 digs.<\/p>\n
With Alexis Haury dishing out 39 assists and contributing nine points on two aces, four blocks, and five kills, the Mustangs were well set.<\/p>\n
Cal Poly continues play at the UC Davis Invitational on Saturday, September 5, with a noon matchup against the host Aggies. It will be the first non-conference meeting between the two programs in nearly 20 years, since UC Davis officially joined the Big West in 2007. The match will be streamed on Mountain West+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAVIS, Calif. \u2014 Emma Fredrick racked up double-digit kills (17) for the third time this season as Cal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-454431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454431","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=454431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}