Beach Volleyball Hosts First Ever Home Match, Drops Two
The Santiago Canyon College beach volleyball team hosted the Golden West College Rustlers and the Irvine Valley College Lasers on Friday afternoon in Orange Empire Conference (OEC) action. The Hawks hosted their first ever home match in the history of the program, but fell in both games in straight sweep fashion.
Only one of eight sets between both matches went into three sets compliments of the third pairing duo that featured sophomore Roxanne Costello and freshman Ashlyn Smith. After dropping the first set 21-17 to Golden West, they roared back to take the second set by the same score. However, they eventually fell in the deciding set by four points.
Freshman duo Laisha Hochstrasser and Chelsea Riedel held down the top slot for both matches. They fell in straight sets both matches.
Freshman tandem Sophie Ziglinski and Peyton Speakman were slotted as the number two duo and were bested after reaching double digit points just once, while sophomore Gabrielle Handfield and freshman Nicole Rodriguez made up the fourth pairing. They were also defeated in straight sets.