Bears Welcome Dons On Senior Day
BERKELEY – The No. 9 California beach volleyball team will play a pair in the Bay this weekend hosting San Francisco on Friday and heading to Saint Mary’s on Saturday. Friday’s match with the Dons also marks Senior Day and has a 12 p.m. start time. Saturday’s match in Moraga is set for 10 a.m.
The Golden Bears come into the weekend with a 21-6 overall record and have won nine of their last 10. The Dons hold a 1-22 record and the Gaels sit at 9-14.
Senior Day
Prior to Friday’s match with USF, the Bears will honor four seniors in Natalie Martion, Lexi McKeown, Ashley Delgado, and Ainsley Radell with a special ceremony.
Bears Go 3-1 at Pac-12 North Invite
This past weekend Cal took its talents to the site of the Pac-12 Championships – the Stanford Beach Volleyball Stadium. After suffering their first 5-0 loss of the season to No. 4 UCLA, the Bears bounced back with three-straight wins topping No. 13 Washington, Arizona State, and No. 10 Stanford. The second edition of the Big Spike vith the rival Cardinal was one to remember as it came down to a court one showdown. Momentum swung back and forth to both teams, but the duo of junior Liz Waters-Leiga and sophomore Sierra Caffo ended the home team’s hopes of evening the season series with a 21-11, 18-21, 15-10 win to seal the dual. The two court one pairs met at 7-7 in the third set before Waters-Leiga and Caffo went on a 8-3 run to end it.
Radell and Delgado Named AVCA/CBVB National Pair of the Week
After an incredible outing at the Mustang Invitational last weekend, Ainsley Radell and Ashley were named the AVCA/CBVB Pair of the Week
The captain duo became the first Golden Bear pair to earn the national honor after leading the team to a 4-0 record and posting a 4-0 record of its own. On the season the two boast a 16-4 overall record and have won six straight matches.
Radell and Delgado started the weekend with three straight sweeps, including a court-one win over UC Davis and a pair of court-two wins over No. 13 Washington and No. 20 Tulane. They finished with a tight three-set win over the host Mustangs on court one.
Milestones Made
This past weekend two Bear captains reached huge career milestones. Senior Ainsley Radell earned her 70th individual win, moving her into second on the all-time wins list. Junior Brooke Buchner earned her 50th and now ranks eighth on that…
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