{"id":432681,"date":"2026-09-11T09:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T09:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/432681\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T09:36:19","slug":"vb-huskies-fall-in-three-to-golden-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/432681\/","title":{"rendered":"VB: Huskies Fall in Three to Golden Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/hcuhuskies.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/stats\/2026\/southern-miss\/boxscore\/6697\" style=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Box Score<\/a> HATTIESBURG, MS \u2013 HCU volleyball hit the road this weekend to play in the Southern Miss Invitational, with their first matchup against the hosting Southern Miss Golden Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>In the first set of the match, HCU went back and forth with Southern Miss, trading points the entire set until a short three-point rally by Southern Miss ended the set 24-26. The second set saw a sudden momentum shift in favor of the Golden Eagles, where they took an early seven-point lead and capitalized on it, which ultimately ended the set with a score of 25-16. HCU fought back in the third set, keeping a close contest while earning a late 23-21 lead. Southern Miss rallied back, scoring four points and ending both the set and the match.<\/p>\n<p>In the match against Southern Miss, HCU was led offensively by <a href=\"https:\/\/hcuhuskies.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/katy-barger\/7029\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7029\" target=\"_blank\">Katy Barger<\/a>, who added 9 kills and 41 attacks today. Defensively, <a href=\"https:\/\/hcuhuskies.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/bianca-byerly\/7031\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7031\" target=\"_blank\">Bianca Byerly<\/a> led the team with 23 digs, while <a href=\"https:\/\/hcuhuskies.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/allana-archie\/7028\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7028\" target=\"_blank\">Allana Archie<\/a> added four blocks in the game.<\/p>\n<p>The Huskies prepare for a doubleheader tomorrow, Friday, Sep. 11. First, HCU faces off against Jackson State at 1 pm, followed by a matchup against Southern University at 4 pm.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; Box Score HATTIESBURG, MS \u2013 HCU volleyball hit the road this weekend to play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-432681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432681","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=432681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}