{"id":477095,"date":"2026-09-27T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/477095\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T04:00:08","slug":"air-force-downs-spartans-3-2-to-sweep-weekend-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/477095\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Downs Spartans, 3-2, to Sweep Weekend Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USAF ACADEMY, Colo. &#8212; In the first five-set match of the season, the Air Force volleyball team captured a thrilling 3-2 victory over San Jose State at the Academy this afternoon (Sept. 26) to remain undefeated in Mountain West play. With the 23-25, 25-20, 15-25, 25-19, 15-13 win, the Falcons captured their third-straight win over the Spartans \u2013 a streak dating back to last season \u2013 and started 2-0 in conference play for just the fourth time at the Division I level (2014, 2018, 2023, 2026).<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Junior Grace Fiaseu was nearly unstoppable on Saturday, registering a career-high 18 kills on .452 hitting (18-4-31), while adding a season-high seven digs and seven blocks (two solo, five assisted). Fiaseu, senior Annamaria Ramos (16) and junior Alysa Walker (10) combined for 46 of the team&#8217;s 60 kills, while Walker collected the 17th double-double of her career with a 14-dig performance \u2013 a statistic that tied freshman Ella Vogel for a team-leading tally. Junior Mia Loyd tallied 30 assists for her second 30-helper match of the season, while Sam Pope, who helped on 17 of the team&#8217;s kills, led the team with two service aces.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>A full set-by-set recap will be available shortly on GoAirForceFalcons.com.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons head to California next week for their first visit to UC Davis as Mountain West opponents. The teams, who have matching 6-7 (2-0 MW) records, will face off on Thursday, Oct. 1, and Saturday, Oct. 3, at the University Credit Union Center. \u00a0Both contests will be streamed live on the MW+.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"USAF ACADEMY, Colo. &#8212; In the first five-set match of the season, the Air Force volleyball team captured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-477095","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\/477095","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=477095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}