{"id":277515,"date":"2026-05-03T21:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T21:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/277515\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T21:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T21:44:12","slug":"texas-falls-to-ucla-3-2-in-ncaa-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/277515\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas falls to UCLA 3-2 in NCAA semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/hookem\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas beach volleyball<\/a>&#8216;s season came to <a href=\"https:\/\/texaslonghorns.com\/news\/2026\/5\/2\/beach-volleyball-caps-program-best-season-in-ncaa-semifinal\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an end Friday\u00a0<\/a>when the Longhorns fell 3-2 to UCLA, the Longhorns&#8217; first appearance in the NCAA Championship semifinals in only the program&#8217;s third year.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, the Longhorns beat Loyola Marymount 3-1 in the quarterfinals. The trip to the championship in Gulf Shores, Ala marked a program-best finish and a program-best season record of 28-7.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UCLA opened the match with a 2-0 cushion and the Longhorns stormed back with a a pair of 21-19 victories from Brecht Piersma and Katie Hashman. To stay alive, sisters Anna and Kacka Pavelkova forced a 21-15, 17-21, 15-9 finish to even the series.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The match was decided when Chloe Charles and Karin Zoinercikova pushed the second set before the Bruins came out on top.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a weekend full of firsts for the Texas program, the Longhorns also earned their first AVCA Collegiate Beach All-American honors with Piersma and Hashman, Texas&#8217; No. 1 pair.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas beach volleyball&#8216;s season came to an end Friday\u00a0when the Longhorns fell 3-2 to UCLA, the Longhorns&#8217; first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,537,102573,1074,28,25307,102574],"class_list":["post-277515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-beach-volleyball","tag-texas-longhorns-volleyball","tag-texas-news","tag-vandegrift-vipers","tag-westlake-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}