Matadors Top Colorado Mesa to Split Wednesday Tri-Dual

Wednesday, March 20

Northridge, Calif.

11:00 a.m.

California State University at Northridge

Loyola Marymount

Matadors Top Colorado Mesa to Split Wednesday Tri-Dual

3/20/2019 7:22:00 PM | Beach Volleyball

NORTHRIDGE, Calif. - In a tri-dual that was delayed nearly three hours by rain, the CSUN Beach Volleyball team defeated Colorado Mesa after falling to No. 13 LMU to earn a split Wednesday at the Matador Beach Volleyball Complex.

LOYOLA MARYMOUNT 4, CSUN 1
The Matadors picked up the first point in the dual match with the 13th-ranked Lions as Taylor Brydon and Lauren McMurray earned their team-leading seventh win of the season. The Matador duo defeated Ella Boehle and Bozena Culo, 21-13, 21-19 in the No. 4 match. Darbi Honeycutt and Mikaela Maughan, who came in with six wins on the season, battled in the No. 2 match before falling to Sara Kovacs and Jess Prichard 21-19, 21-12. After the exhibition match ended in a 1-1 draw between CSUN's Shawnee De Oliveira and Katryn Zaloom and LMU's Sylvia Hernandez and Paige Panter, the Lions took a 2-1 lead when Megan Nash and Emma Doud held off Nicole Nevarez and Lexi McLeod, 21-8, 21-17.

Veronica Nederend and Erin Martin then clinched the dual win for LMU at No. 5, defeating Cassidy Rosso and Kailey Klein, 21-13, 21-14. Savannah Slattery and Reka Orsi Toth made the final margin 4-1 with a 21-14, 21-14 victory over Daniella Molinari and Seyvion Waggoner in the No. 1 match on center court.

CSUN 4, COLORADO MESA 1
In the middle dual, LMU defeated Colorado Mesa 5-0 in a match that lasted four hours with two hour-plus weather delays.

When the final dual of the afternoon got started, Honeycutt and Maughan won for the seventh time this season to earn the Matadors' first point against the Mavericks. CSUN's No. 2 pair swept Macie Lachemann and Rachael Perrine 21-16, 21-12.

De Oliveira and Zaloom picked up their third win of the season in the exhibition match after dropping set one 21-19. The CSUN pair won the final two sets (21-12, 15-9) to pick up the win. Nevarez and McLeod went the distance for the Matadors' second point as the CSUN pair held off Ara Norwood and Holly Schmidt 17-21, 21-17, 15-13 in the No. 4 match.

Colorado Mesa kept the Matadors from clinching when Katie Scherr and Portia Valdez swept CSUN's Daniella Molinari and Seyvion Waggoner, 21-19, 21-12 in the No. 1 pair on center court. But the No 5 pair of Rosso and Klein picked up a straight set win over Kerstin Layman and Magdalena Dabrowski (21-16, 21-17) in the next match to go final to clinch CSUN's sixth win of the season.

Brydon and McMurray improved to 8-4 on the season with a 21-12, 21-17 victory over Lindy Dixon and Hailey Crane at No. 3 to give CSUN the 4-1 win.

COACH NOELLE ROOKE SAID
"Obviously our goal is to win both ends of our home tri-duals. It's tough to have that long of a delay so I'm proud of the team for coming out strong and earning the win over Colorado Mesa. I'm also proud that we improved as a team against LMU and I think we're getting better as the season has gone on."

UP NEXT
The Matadors (6-6) are off until next Tuesday (Mar. 26) when they travel to Malibu to take on Stanford at 11 a.m.

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