{"id":398189,"date":"2026-09-12T22:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T22:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398189\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T22:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T22:02:11","slug":"yacobucci-hits-career-milestone-as-raiders-fall-to-jacksonville-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/398189\/","title":{"rendered":"Yacobucci Hits Career Milestone as Raiders Fall to Jacksonville Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH, PA \u2013 The Wright State volleyball team continued play at the Panther Invitational with a three-set loss to Jacksonville on Saturday afternoon inside Victory Heights Arena while <a href=\"https:\/\/wsuraiders.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/lauren-yacobucci\/6854\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6854\" target=\"_blank\">Lauren Yacobucci<\/a> recorded her 3,000th career assist.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWright State (4-4) will wrap up the weekend tomorrow afternoon against Pitt. First serve is slated for 1 p.m., and fans can catch all the action on ACCNX.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Raiders battled throughout the afternoon, but Jacksonville pulled out victories in all three sets by scores of 26-24, 28-26 and 25-22.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWright State pushed Jacksonville to the limit in each of the opening two sets. The Raiders erased a four-point deficit late in the first set and tied the score at 24-24 before the Dolphins recorded the final two points. The second set featured 13 ties and eight lead changes as Wright State rallied from a 20-17 deficit to take a late 24-23 lead, but Jacksonville answered and eventually secured the set in extra points.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Raiders carried the battle into the third set and held a 17-13 advantage midway through the frame. Jacksonville responded with a 9-3 run to move in front and held off Wright State down the stretch to complete the sweep.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWright State finished the match with 43 kills, 41 assists, 74 digs and nine service aces. The Raiders hit .207 as a team, while Jacksonville connected at a .340 clip and recorded 48 kills.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wsuraiders.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/reilly-zegunis\/6855\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6855\" target=\"_blank\">Reilly Zegunis<\/a> led Wright State with 11 kills. <a href=\"https:\/\/wsuraiders.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/haley-robinson\/6849\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6849\" target=\"_blank\">Haley Robinson<\/a> turned in 10 kills while hitting .714 without an attacking error, and <a href=\"https:\/\/wsuraiders.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/katie-sowko\/6852\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6852\" target=\"_blank\">Katie Sowko<\/a> added eight kills, 18 digs and three service aces. <a href=\"https:\/\/wsuraiders.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/ella-seeger\/6851\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6851\" target=\"_blank\">Ella Seeger<\/a> chipped in eight kills, while <a href=\"https:\/\/wsuraiders.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/abbey-knight\/6894\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6894\" target=\"_blank\">Abbey Knight<\/a> recorded four kills.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nYacobucci passed out 35 assists and added nine digs, becoming the latest Raider to reach 3,000 career assists. <a href=\"https:\/\/wsuraiders.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/taygan-corstange\/6844\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6844\" target=\"_blank\">Taygan Corstange<\/a> anchored the back line with a match-high 24 digs, while <a href=\"https:\/\/wsuraiders.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/greta-mckee\/6848\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6848\" target=\"_blank\">Greta McKee<\/a> collected 12 digs as Wright State placed three players in double figures defensively.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAbbie Tuyo paced Jacksonville with 14 kills, while Jaylyn Tuiasosopo and Claire Mrukowski each added 12 kills. Emersen Strain directed the Dolphins&#8217; offense with 43 assists in the victory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH, PA \u2013 The Wright State volleyball team continued play at the Panther Invitational with a three-set loss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-398189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398189","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=398189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}