{"id":495943,"date":"2026-10-14T15:38:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/495943\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:38:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:38:40","slug":"one-player-down-long-beach-vikings-womens-volleyball-wins-against-the-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/495943\/","title":{"rendered":"One player down, Long Beach Vikings women’s volleyball wins against the Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the second set, Long Beach Vikings defensive specialist Hazel Orozco<\/a> took a harsh dive, injuring herself and taking herself out of the game on Wednesday, Oct. 7, at the El Camino College West Gymnasium. <\/p>\n

The Warriors took the first set 25-20. Though one set behind and one player down, the Vikings were able to beat the El Camino College Warriors 3-1, conquering three sets in a row to win.<\/p>\n

\"El<\/a>El Camino College Warriors Libero, Cynthia Nario, receives a serve from the Long Beach City College Vikings. Nario recorded 35 receptions against the Vikings on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026. (Riley Abrams | The Union)<\/p>\n

Vikings volleyball coach Tyler Jackson said, \u201cI think we started off really slow the first set. I think each set after that we started finding more of our rhythm and more of our group.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vikingsoutside hitter Jourdynaire Kekauoha-Viena<\/a> said seeing her teammate get hurt brought out some emotions during the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started playing for her, especially because we\u2019ve seen the other people laughing at her \u2013 the other team, the crowd. I\u2019m not gonna let somebody talk about our teammate like that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\"El<\/a>El Camino College Warriors Middle Blocker, Cali Smith, gets set up by the Warriors setter, Justine Sapitanan. Smith had 3 kills against the Long Beach City Vikings on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026. (Riley Abrams | The Union)<\/p>\n

Kekauoha-Viena had 15 total kills in the game, including the final point to end the game. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think they definitely leaned on each other and said that they wanted to play for that player,\u201d Jackson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the second set, Long Beach Vikings defensive specialist Hazel Orozco took a harsh dive, injuring herself and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,192727,133,132,13340],"class_list":["post-495943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-city-college-vikings","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495943","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=495943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}