Pac-12 Network To Televise Matches With No. 2 Stanford, No. 10 ASU
BERKELEY – The No. 7 California beach volleyball team heads to Tempe, Arizona this weekend to face more top competition in the Pac-12 South Tournament. The Golden Bears (6-2) are coming off a 2-2 showing at last weekend’s Battle For L.A. where they defeated Concordia University Irvine 5-0 and Loyola Marymount 4-1 a day after falling to their first ranked opponents of the year, No. 1 UCLA 4-1 and No. 18 Cal Poly 3-2.
Cal will have a rare Saturday-Sunday slate of matches this weekend, with all four to be televised on the Pac-12 Network. The Bears open Saturday against Utah at 7 a.m. PT and No. 2 Stanford at 3 p.m. before closing the weekend on Sunday with Oregon at 8 a.m. and No. 10 Arizona State at 10 a.m.
BATTLE FOR L.A. RECAP
In its first match last weekend against UCLA, Cal took the nation’s top-ranked team to three sets in four out of five matchups and graduate student Lara Boos and Brooke Buchner came away with a 21-19, 15-21, 19-17 win on court four. Despite falling behind 2-0 in their next match against Cal Poly, the Bears nearly pulled off the comeback, starting with a court-five win from junior Ella Dreibholz and Portia Sherman. After missing the first week of the season, senior Sierra Caffo earned her first win of the year on court one alongside graduate student Kendall Peters, but sophomores Marilu Pally and Gia Fisher came up just short in a 15-13 set-three defeat to end the day.
The Bears responded the following day with their fifth 5-0 win in their first seven matches over Concordia Irvine and dropped just three sets in a 4-1 victory over tournament co-host LMU.
THE SQUAD
The Bears 2024 roster includes 11 returners, three transfers and four true freshmen.
In her first year as a Bear, Sierra Caffo established herself as one of the team’s top players. The San Diego native earned AVCA All-America honors after leading the team with 10 wins on court one and a 24-12 overall record. This past summer, she played for Team USA and won silver at the Norceca Beach Championship with her former LSU teammate Ella Larkin.
Brooke Buchner returns for her senior season after posting a .694 win percentage and 25 overall wins in 2023, both the second-highest marks among Cal’s returners only to Alexandria Young-Gomez’s .750 win percentage and 27 total victories. Boos owns the most accomplished resume among the…
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