Long Beach State Hands CSUN 25-22, 25-16, 25-18 Setback

Friday, November 11

Northridge, Calif.

7:00 pm

California State University at Northridge

7-20,2-13Big West

Long Beach State

16-7,11-4Big West

Team	1	2	3	Final F
Long Beach St.	25	25	25	3
CSUN	22	16	18	0

Photo by: Steve Fitzgerald

Long Beach State Hands CSUN 25-22, 25-16, 25-18 Setback

11/11/2022 9:04:00 PM | Women's Volleyball

Box Score

NORTHRIDGE, Calif. – The CSUN women's volleyball team battled visiting Long Beach State in the opening set before succumbing over the final two sets as the visiting Beach swept the Matadors, 3-0 in a Big West match Friday night at Premier America Credit Union Arena.

Set scores were 25-22, 25-16, 25-18 as Long Beach improves to 16-7 overall and 11-4 in the Big West. The Matadors drop their eighth straight match to slip to 7-20 overall and 2-13 in Big West play.

Carisa Barron and Nicole Nevarez each had a team-high six kills to lead CSUN which was limited to a .135 hitting clip by the Beach who connected at a .333 clip in the straight-set win.

KEY STATISTICS
• Nevarez, who also tied for team-high honors with seven digs, hit .333 on 18 errorless attacks as she upped her career kills total to 1,028.
• In addition to her six kills, Barron also added a team-high 14 assists, three digs and two blocks.
• Magdalena Juric (.167) and Taylor Orshoff (.042) each added five kills while Lauryn Anderson chipped in four kills (.300) and a team-high three blocks.
• Kaia Kanan followed Barron with 13 assists to go with seven digs while libero Breanna Mitchell also had seven digs for the Matadors.
• Each team had six blocks but Long Beach nearly doubled CSUN's kills output (46-27) and also posted a 7-3 edge in aces and had 45 digs to the Matadors' 32.
• Natalie Glenn was one of two Long Beach hitters in double figures with a match-high 13 kills on .478 hitting. Morgan Chacon also added 10 kills on .304 hitting for the Beach.

SET 1
The Matadors had their chances in the opening set as they overcame a three-point Beach lead midway through the set. An Anderson kill trimmed a 14-11 lead down to two before the visitors extended the lead to four at 16-12. A kill by Juric and an Anderson ace cut the lead again to two before the Matadors would use a pair of Beach hitting errors to knot the score at 20-20. Two straight Long Beach points forced a CSUN timeout before a Long Beach service error cut the lead to one. Anderson's third kill of the set kept the deficit at one (23-22) when the Beach closed the set with consecutive kills.

SET 2
The second set featured a match-high nine ties as the two teams played to a 12-12 tie following a Long Beach hitting error. The visitors then claimed three of the next four to open up a 16-13 lead before a Juric kill and a Kanan ace kept the Matadors within one. But Long Beach answered with a 5-0 run to extend the lead to 21-15 before a Nevarez kill ended the run. The Nevarez kill would turn out to be CSUN's final point of the set as the Beach closed out a 25-16 win.

SET 3
After hitting .000 as a team in the second set, the Matadors would hit .122 in the final set before falling 25-18. After a Nevarez kill pulled CSUN within one at 8-7, the visitors engineered a 5-2 run to open up a 13-9 lead. Long Beach still led by four (15-11) at the media timeout before extending the lead to six at 20-14 following a 5-3 run. An Orshoff kill would get the Matadors within four at 21-17 but CSUN would get no closer the rest of the way in falling 25-18.

UP NEXT
The Matadors conclude a two-match homestand Saturday against Cal State Fullerton at 5 p.m. before opening a three-match road trip Nov. 17 at UC Riverside.

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