{"id":162694,"date":"2026-02-20T15:52:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162694\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T15:52:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:52:06","slug":"gamecocks-upset-no-17-north-florida-in-season-opener-university-of-south-carolina-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162694\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamecocks Upset No. 17 North Florida in Season Opener \u2013 University of South Carolina Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The South Carolina beach volleyball team defeated No. 17 North Florida, 3-2, in the season opener on Friday morning in Jacksonville, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>Julia Waugh and Evie Ziffer started the day with a win on court two. The pair defeated North Florida\u2019s duo 21-18, 21-19. On court one, Brooke Balue and Rachel Harmann dropped their match, 17-21, 19-21.<\/p>\n<p>The Gamecocks bounced back with a win on court three from Jolie Cranford and Peyton Yamagata, 22-20, 21-17. Juju Quintero and Annalyse Askew sealed the victory for South Carolina, taking court four with a 23-21, 21-19 win.<\/p>\n<p>South Carolina 3, #17 North Florida 2.<\/p>\n<p>Presley Murray\/Mackenzie Murphy (UNF) def. Brooke Balue\/Rachel Hartmann (USC):21-17, 21-19. UNF W<br \/>\nJulia Waugh\/Evie Ziffer (USC) def. Sophie Notaro\/Cameron Humphries (UNF): 21-18, 21-19. USC W<br \/>\nJolie Cranford\/Peyton Yamagata (USC) def. Andrea Encinas Dasilva\/ Sam Crosby (UNF): 22-20, 21-17. USC W<br \/>\nJuju Quinrero\/Annalyse Asken (USC) def. Eden Anderson\/ Madi Espy (UNF): 23-21, 21-19. USC W<br \/>\nNatalie Villalon\/Ally Bunch (UNF) def. Virginia Trost\/ Grace Travis (USC): 24-22, 21-16. UNF W<br \/>\nEXH. Raven Jordan\/Alexandra Hennessey (UNF) def. Amelia Taft\/Morgan Downs (USC): 21-14, 21-18. UNF W<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The South Carolina beach volleyball team defeated No. 17 North Florida, 3-2, in the season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[43275,44898,44900,44901,44899,28,30,29,44897,44902,1801,6759,25853],"class_list":{"0":"post-162694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-beach-volleyball","9":"tag-carolina","10":"tag-columbia","11":"tag-featured-articles-home-page","12":"tag-fighting-gamecocks","13":"tag-florida","14":"tag-florida-headlines","15":"tag-florida-news","16":"tag-gamecocks","17":"tag-headlines-home-page","18":"tag-south-carolina","19":"tag-south-carolina-gamecocks","20":"tag-usc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}