SAN FRANCISCO – The San Francisco State volleyball team hosted Cal State Monterey Bay for its final home match of the regular season. The two teams went back and forth in the match with the Otters coming up on top 3-2 (22-25, 25-22, 30-32, 25-20, 14-16).
Prior to the start of the game, the Gators honored seniors Drew deGuzman, Savanna FauntLeRoy, Grace Witcher and Aidan Goodrich.
- SF State fall to 10-11 and 6-5 in the CCAA. They fall to sixth in the CCAA. Cal State Monterey Bay improves to 7-15 and 5-7 in the CCAA. They keep their playoff hopes alive and sit in ninth.
- Goodrich had a career-high 28 kills in her final home match. The mark is tied for seventh-most in a single match.
- Alana Larson and Witcher also had double-digit figures in kills with 20 and 17 respectively. Larson had a career-high 22 digs to add to that mark.
- The Gators held the edge in hitting percentage and finished with .263 percent.
- Melanie Hewlett had a season-high 59 assists.
- Lilly Rix had a team-high four blocks.
- The Otters finished with 13 aces while the Gators only have seven.
The Gators were up 7-5 to start set one before the Otters went on a 10-1 run to take a commanding lead. Errors by the Otters helped the Gators cut the lead down to 18-16. A 4-0 run where Lilly Rix had a block and a kill to cut the lead down to one at 21-20. The Otters called a time-out and recorded the next two points out of the timeout. The Gators were forced to side-out each time they scored after that.
Larson had a block and a kill to open the second set 4-0. The Gators led by as many as six in the set and after being tied 6-6, held a lead of two or more points the rest of the way. Larson had six kills in the set while Goodrich had five.
The Gators trailed throughout the third set. A service error cut the Otters lead to 23-22, Goodrich landed an ace and a bad set gave the Gators set point. Monterey Bay's Kayla Smith landed a kill to continue the set. The Gators reached set point several times, but the Otters pulled away in the end.
After a back and forth start to set four, the Gators used a 5-0 run to go up 9-6 and force a Monterey Bay timeout. The Otters retook the lead later in the set. Witcher had a pair of kills that put the Gators up 20-17, forcing the Otters to use their second timeout. The Otters landed a kill out of the timeout but could not string back-to-back points.
The Gators fell behind 5-1 in set five and called a time-out. Down 10-5, Witcher had three kills in a 5-0 run to tie the set up. The Otters went on a 3-0 run to take a 14-12 lead. An attack error by the Otters put the Gators within one. The Otters called a timeout to regroup, and Goodrich landed a kill out of the timeout to keep the set going. The Otters landed the next two kills to take the match.
The Gators have one last road trip of the regular sesaon. They travel south to play Cal State Dominguez Hills on November 5 at 5 pm. Live stats will be available at sfstategators.com and fans can watch the action on FloCollege.
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