ROHNERT PARK, Calif. - The RV San Francisco State volleyball team needed to force a set five but came up with a 3-2 win over Sonoma State after taking the fifth set 16-14. After a 25-16 loss to start the match, the Gators came back to win 25-22. Sonoma would take the next set 25-21 before the Gators equalized with a 25-23 set four win.
- The Gators continue their hot streak and improve to 12-3 and 6-1 in the CCAA. The Seawolves drop to 6-7 and 3-4 in the CCAA
- Izzy Issak set a new career-high with 23 kills on the night to go with a pair of blocks. Tamiya Wilson and Aidan Goodrich each had 10 kills.
- Wilson now has 965 career kills and moves into eighth all-time.
- The Gators serving improved throughout the evening as they finished with 11 aces and 10 errors. They had three errors and no aces in set one but closed out set five with just one error and three aces. Brianna DeBoer had a team-high three aces.
- Peyton McBride had 17 points to lead the Seawolves.
Serving issues slowed the Gators down in set one as the Seawolves took an early 9-4 lead thanks to three Gator service errors and a pair of aces by Sonoma. The Seawolves were efficient on offense and only had one attack error to go along with a .455 hitting percentage.
Trailing by a few points most of the match, the Gators used a 5-0 run to take a 19-17 lead in set two.
Kimberly DeBoer had back-to-back setter dumps to get the Gators to set point and a big swing from Wilson gave the Gators the win for set two.
Three straight attack errors by the Gators put them in an 8-4 and forced a time-out. Facing set point down 24-16, the Gators got five straight points but the Seawolves stopped the run with a kill from Jordyn Waite-Ward.
In a close set four, a Sonoma State service error got the Gators within one down 21-20. The Gators would outscore the Seawolves 4-1 to get to set point. Sonoma called a timeout and landed a kill on the rally following the timeout. Issak sent the Gators to a five set with an attack that bounced off the blockers to get the set win.
The Gators trailed by as much as three early in the fifth set but stormed back to get to match point up 14-10. SF State could not get out of its own way, forcing errors to allow Sonoma to come back and tie the set. After a timeout, Issak landed a kill to get the Gators back to match point and
Kimberly DeBoer's ace landed just inside the area of play to seal the deal.
The Gators' road trip will come to a close when they travel to Cal Poly Humboldt on Saturday, October 12 for a match at 5 p.m. Live stats are available at
sfstategators.com/livestats_vb and fans can watch on the FloNetwork.
