16th-Ranked Pepperdine Blanks CSUN, 5-0 in Saturday Dual

MALIBU, Calif. – The CSUN Beach Volleyball team took two of the five pairs to three sets before falling 5-0 to the 16th-ranked Waves on Saturday at the Pepperdine Beach Volleyball Courts.

In the fourth meeting all-time between the two teams, the hosts picked up wins in the opening flight as Simone Peiebe and McKenna Thomas swept the Matadors' True McCullough and Seyvion Waggoner 21-17, 21-12 in the No. 2 pair before Cameron Bakienko and Kate Clermont topped Kailey Klein and Victoria Rogers in the No. 4 pairs by the score of 21-13, 21-15. The Waves' Jordan Benoit and Gracie Pedersen then picked up a 21-15, 21-7 victory over Layla Cederlind and Jadin Williams on the exhibition court.

Peyton Lewis and Juju Quintero then clinched the overall dual with a two-set win (21-11, 21-18) over Darbi Honeycutt and Mikaela Maughan in the No. 3 pairs. CSUN would battle in the final two pairs as both Lauren Eknoian and Emily Sparks and Abbey Sweeting and Madison Klungel forced a third and deciding set. Eknoian and Sparks won the opening set over Pepperdine's Madison Shields and Melanie Paul, 21-18 but the Waves would claim the final two sets 21-9 and 15-8 to make it 4-0 with one match remaining.

After dropping the first set 21-12, Sweeting and Klungel battled back against Savana Greene and Rio Frohoff to win the second set 21-19 setting up a third and deciding set. The Waves would win the race to 15 (15-9) and take another three-set decision for a clean sweep on the day.

UP NEXT
CSUN (15-14) will cap the 2022 regular season next Saturday as the Matadors face Long Beach State and Cal State LA in a tri-dual at the LBSU Sand Courts in Long Beach. CSUN takes on the Beach in the opener at 9 a.m. before taking on the Golden Eagles at 11 a.m.

#16 PEPPERDINE 5, CSUN 0
1. Paul/Shields (PEPP) def. Eknoian/Sparks (CSUN) – 19-21, 21-9, 15-8
2. Priebe/Thomas (PEPP) def. McCullough/Waggoner (CSUN) – 21-17, 21-12
3. Lewis/Quintero (PEPP) def. Honeycutt/Maughan (CSUN) – 21-11, 21-18
4. Baklenko/Clermont (PEPP) def. Klein/Rogers (CSUN) – 21-13, 21-15
5. Frohoff/Greene (PEPP) def. Sweeting/Klungel (CSUN) – 21-12, 19-21, 15-9
Exh. Benoit/Pedersen (PEPP) def. Cederlind/Williams (CSUN) – 21-15, 21-7
Order of finish: 2, 4, 3*, 1, 5

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16th-Ranked Pepperdine Blanks CSUN, 5-0 in Saturday Dual

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Players Mentioned

Layla Cederlind

Lauren Eknoian

Darbi Honeycutt

Kailey Klein

Madison Klungel

Mikaela Maughan

True McCullough

Victoria Rogers

Emily Sparks

Abbey Sweeting

Seyvion Waggoner

Jadin Williams