SAN FRANCISCO — The No. 19 San Francisco State volleyball team fell to No. 3 Cal Poly Pomona (24-26, 25-17, 19-25, 17-25) in the final home match in the regular season. The match served as a potential preview of the CCAA Championships, with Cal Poly Pomona and San Francisco State seeded first and second respectively heading into the tournament.
Prior to the start of the match, the Gators honored seniors
Kimberly DeBoer,
Brianna DeBoer,
Chloe Henning,
Izzy Issak,
Cynthia Beall and
Alhana Velasquez.
- The Gators fall to 21-5 and 15-3 in the CCAA and drop their first home match of the season. With the win, the Broncos improve to 23-2, 17-1 in the CCAA and are the outright CCAA Champions of the regular season.
- Izzy Issak led the way with 21 kills, followed by Tamiya WIlson with 16.
- Brianna DeBoer had a match-high 16 digs, followed by Asia Arbaugh with 15.
- Kimberly DeBoer had 46 assists for the Gators.
- Sarah Ybarra had 18 kills to lead Cal Poly Pomona.
In a tight opening set, the Broncos would lead by as much as four but never pull away for long. Tied at 23-23, a kill by Alexia Athans put the Broncos at set point but the Gators got the serve back thanks to a service error. Pomona landed the next two kills to take the first set.
A 4-0 run that featured both a block and kill by Henning and Issak put the Gators up 13-8 and forced the Broncos to blow both timeouts. Pomona got back within two down 17-15 but the Gators outscored them 8-2 to close out the set, getting three kills from Issak and Wilson during the run.
Down 13-8, the Gators came out a time out and erased the deficit. Down 19-18, the Gators started to run out of steam and were outscored 6-1 by the Broncos to close out the set.
After leading to open set four, errors opened the door for the Broncos to take a lead. The Gators called a timeout down 17-15, but the Broncos landed back-to-back blocks on the ensuing rallies to take enough of a cushion to close out the match.
The Gators head to the CCAA Tournament with a bye as the number two seed. Their first match will take place on Friday, November 22 at 3 pm against the winner of the third seed and sixth seed. Fans can watch both games live on FloCollege with live stats available at sfstategators.com/livestats_vb.
