{"id":424895,"date":"2026-09-03T09:56:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/424895\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T09:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T09:56:35","slug":"austin-college-volleyball-season-opens-with-a-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/424895\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin College volleyball season opens with a win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sherman, Texas &#8212; The Austin College &#8216;Roos opened their 2026 campaign with a 3-1 win over Howard Payne.<\/p>\n<p>Austin College won the first set, 25-22, but Howard Payne evened up the match with a 25-21 victory in the second set.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Roos took the next two sets, 25-16 and 25-21, to take the match.<\/p>\n<p>Austin College sophomore Mia Johnson led all hitters with 22 kills. Madisin Hartsfield and Caroline Smith both knocked down a dozen kills.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1a1adsc_8602.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1a1a1adsc_8560.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1a1a1adsc_8565edgarza.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p> Austin College head coach Ed Garza is in his 30th season at the helm. <\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1a1a1adsc_8585.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1a1a1adsc_8596.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1a1adsc_8603_001.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1a1a1adsc_8597.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1a1a1adsc_8601.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">additional photos to run Wednesday<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">photos by Allen Rich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sherman, Texas &#8212; The Austin College &#8216;Roos opened their 2026 campaign with a 3-1 win over Howard Payne.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-424895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424895","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=424895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}