After making the 420-mile bus ride to Folsom, the Long Beach City College women\u2019s volleyball team made a statement Friday night as they knocked out San Joaquin Delta\u00a0 26-24, 16-25, 25-20, 26-24 to advance to the CCCAA State Volleyball semifinals for the first time in over 25 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Vikings will now be in a rematch against Feather River on Saturday at 5 p.m. Last year, Feather River knocked LBCC out of the state playoffs in the quarterfinals.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Vikings trailed 8-4 in the first set, but LBCC battled back thanks to a kill and block from Ryleeh Tuaolo tied the set 8-8.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The two teams continued to go back and forth and after it being tied 24-24, Cynthia Hinjosa and Tuaolo gave the Vikings a 25-24 with a block. LBCC took the first set after a hitting error by Hadlee Gray.<\/p>\n
San Joaquin Delta showed why they were the top seed out of the North as they jumped out to a 7-2 lead and eventually took a 13-6 lead before tying the set 25-16.<\/p>\n
In the third set, the Vikings pulled away after it was tied 4-4. After taking a 7-4 lead the Vikings didn\u2019t trail as they took a 2-1 lead thanks to a 25-20 lead.<\/p>\n
Kyla Jones led LBCC with 15 kills and Tuaolo and Marissa Krebs each reached double figures with 11 and 10 kills, respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Looking to close the match out, the Vikings took a 16-9 lead but San Joaquin went on a 9-2 run that tied the frame 18-18.<\/p>\n
The Mustangs continued to gain momentum as they took a 24-22 lead and were poised to tie the match 2-2.<\/p>\n
However, after a San Joaquin service error and an ace Cynthia Hinjosa \u2013 the Vikings were right back in it as they tied the match 24-24.<\/p>\n
A Mustang attack error gave LBCC match point and a block by Jones and Tuaolo pushed the Vikings into the semifinals with a 26-24 victory.<\/p>\n
Running their 6-2 formation, Emeli Muagututi\u2019a and Camille Agrupis had 22 and 20 assists respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After making the 420-mile bus ride to Folsom, the Long Beach City College women\u2019s volleyball team made a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-83840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83840","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=83840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}