{"id":470473,"date":"2026-09-21T01:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T01:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/470473\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T01:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T01:52:08","slug":"spartans-fall-to-cal-in-battle-of-norcal-sjsu-athletics-official-athletics-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/470473\/","title":{"rendered":"Spartans Fall To Cal In Battle Of NorCal &#8211; SJSU Athletics &#8211; Official Athletics Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt was a mixed bag today.\u201d<br \/>Hear from head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/staff\/todd-kress\" title=\"Todd Kress\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Kress<\/a> after the match against Cal. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/AllSpartans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#AllSpartans<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oQeW5CgBfR\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/oQeW5CgBfR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SJSU VOLLEYBALL (@SanJoseStateVB) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SanJoseStateVB\/status\/2101836866442121578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 21, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>SAN JOSE, Calif.\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/player\/zuzana-kosikova\" title=\"Zuzana Kos\u00edkov\u00e1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zuzana Kos\u00edkov\u00e1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/player\/fatimah-hall\" title=\"Fatimah Hall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fatimah Hall<\/a> each recorded a double-double on Sunday to lead the San Jos\u00e9 State volleyball team in a 3-1 loss to California Sunday afternoon to close out the Battle of NorCal inside Spartan Gym.<\/p>\n<p>Kos\u00edkov\u00e1 led the Spartan hitting attack with 13 kills and added 10 digs for her third double-double of the season.<br \/>\nHall recorded her fourth double-double of the season and 18th of her Spartan career with 14 assists and 15 digs.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/player\/tatiana-robinson\" title=\"Tatiana Robinson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tatiana Robinson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/player\/morgan-graves\" title=\"Morgan Graves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan Graves<\/a> each had eight kills in the loss.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/player\/orian-drore\" title=\"Orian Drore\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orian Drore<\/a> contributed 12 digs and five assists, while <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/player\/kylee-sells\" title=\"Kylee Sells\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kylee Sells<\/a> led the team with two service aces and had two digs.<br \/>\nThe two teams battled in the first set with six lead changes and 12 tied scores. The Spartans had a 24-23 lead before consecutive Cal kills and an SJSU hitting error gave the Golden Bears the 26-24 win.<br \/>\nSan Jos\u00e9 State trailed 19-14 in the second set before tying the match at 21-21 on a Kos\u00edkov\u00e1 service ace. The set was tied at 23-23 before a Robinson kill and Hall ace gave SJSU the 25-23 win.<br \/>\nCal finished the set by winning the final two sets, 25-16, 25-9.<\/p>\n<p>UP NEXT \u2013 The Spartans open Mountain West play on the road this week at Air Force. The two teams play Thursday night at 6 p.m. MT\/5 p.m. PT and Saturday at 1 p.m. MT\/noon PT. Fans can watch both matches on the MW+. Fans who subscribe by September 30 can get 15% off an annual subscription by using the promo code WELCOME15.<\/p>\n<p>#AllSpartans<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt was a mixed bag today.\u201dHear from head coach Todd Kress after the match against Cal. #AllSpartans pic.twitter.com\/oQeW5CgBfR&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-470473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470473","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=470473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}