{"id":463003,"date":"2026-09-14T01:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T01:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463003\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T01:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T01:56:11","slug":"donkers-shines-in-four-set-win-over-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463003\/","title":{"rendered":"Donkers Shines in Four-Set Win Over San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"

TEMPE, Ariz. \u2014 The No. 24 Oregon volleyball team dropped the opening set Sunday but recovered to beat San Diego in four sets (16-25, 25-19, 27-25, 25-17) in the final match of the Snyder-Park Classic in Tempe, Ariz. Junior Sjakkie Donkers<\/a> led all players with 17 kills including the match-winning put away.
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\nThe Ducks improve to 7-1 ahead of this week’s home matches against Portland State on Thursday and Oregon State on Sunday. Single-match and season tickets for UO home matches are currently on sale<\/a>.
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\nDonkers entered the match to start the second and hit .441 against the Toreros. Valentina Vaulet<\/a> put down 12 kills and had 14 digs to complete her second double-double of the year, and also had three service aces. Iva Sucurovic tied her season high with eight kills followed by Alanah Clemente<\/a> who had seven after coming off the bench to start the second.
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\nBoth Sucurovic and Clemente had five blocks in the victory.
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\nSophomore Reese Sheppard<\/a> and Maila Ribeiro<\/a> picked up 17 and 14 digs, respectively, while Sheppard also tied her career high with six assists. Fifth-year setter Marina Crownover<\/a> continued her strong play with 40 assists, eight digs, two kills, one ace and a solo block.
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\nHow It Happened: Oregon opened the scoring with a kill by Dalia Virlan but San Diego (3-5) won 13 of the next 15 points. The Ducks steadied and began to chip away, pulling to within four points\u2014USD up, 16-12\u2014but the Toreros answered with seven of the next eight to pull away. The Ducks saved a pair of set point but Meghan Scholz had a kill to get her team the early 1-0 match lead.
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\nSan Diego led early in the second but a four-point surge gave Oregon a 15-12 advantage at the media timeout. Donkers had two kills while Crownover had a kill and a block during the push. Clemente and Virlan teamed up for a block followed by an ace from Vaulet for a 21-18 lead and a USD timeout. The Ducks went on to secure the frame after three kills from Donkers and an ace by Virlan on set point.
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\nDonkers had eight kill on 12 errorless swings in the second set.
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\nOregon carried the momentum into the third, wining eight of the first 11 points. The Ducks stretched their lead to eight and held a 20-12 advantage before San Diego rattled off eight in a row to pull even. Oregon regained the lead with three in a row and had set points at 24-22 but once again, the Toreros rallied and had a set point of their own at 25-24.
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\nThe Ducks extended the third set with a Donkers-Virlan block, and then after a San Diego attack error, Clemente and Sucurovic teamed up for another block to end the set in favor of Oregon.
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\nNeeding just one set to win, the Ducks jumped out to a 6-2 advantage with the help of two Vaulet kills. Oregon pushed its lead to 16-8 after a four-point run that began with a Donkers’ kill and solo block. San Diego got as close as four\u2014UO leading, 20-16\u2014but the Ducks ended the match on a 5-1 run. On match point, Donkers tapped down an overpass kill caused by a tough serve by Vaulet.
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\nLike the second, Donkers did not commit an attack error in the fourth set. She posted five kills on eight swings in the decisive frame.
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\nNotable: Oregon improves to 5-2 against San Diego; three meetings in the past four seasons \u2026 Donkers entered the match with a season high of five kills (Aug. 29 at Southeast Missouri) \u2026 Vaulet has 10+ kills in six of eight matches this season \u2026 Ribeiro had double-digit digs for the first time in her career \u2026 team hit .405 with 18 kills in the fourth set \u2026 Crownover had at least eight digs in six-consecutive matches.
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\nFor more news and information about Oregon Volleyball, follow @OregonVB on Instagram and Twitter, and @OregonVolleyball on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEMPE, Ariz. \u2014 The No. 24 Oregon volleyball team dropped the opening set Sunday but recovered to beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-463003","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\/463003","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=463003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}