Beach volleyball takes weekend leave as USC and UCLA, TCU and Florida State continue to win

Second-place USC and #3 UCLA, #1 TCU, and #4 Florida State all took the weekend off as they continued to win.

TCU stayed at residence and scored victories over Cal #9, FIU #15 and Grand Canyon #6.

FSU went to LSU and attended Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Washington, Southern Miss, Spring Hill School and No. Received 5 LSUs.

UCLA on Wednesday, No. It hosts 8 Hawai’i after which focuses on the faculty sport, the East Meets West Invitational on Manhattan Seaside, the place USC and UCLA play the #15 FIU, LSU, FSU, and #11 Georgia State.

TCU is skipping that in favor of a visit to Jacksonville, Florida, the place the Horned Frogs will play with #18 Pepperdine, #17 Stetson, North Florida, and FGCU, the final crew exterior of the highest 20.

TCU (20-0) defeated Cal 4-1, swept the FIU 5-0, battled for a 3-2 win over GCU, after which swept Texas 5-0. TCU is at all times 30-0 in opposition to applications from Texas, together with the first-year Longhorns. Daniela Alvarez and Tania Moreno went as much as 16-1 for the TCU at #1 this season.

Florida State (21-2) swept TAMUCC, beat Washington 4-1, did the identical to Southern Miss, beat Spring Hill 3-0 after which beat LSU 3-2.

This included Maddie Anderson and Paige Kalkhoff’s #1 win over Kylie Deberg and Ellie Shank 35-33, 21-14. FSU additionally received 2nd with Anna Lengthy and Jordan Polo, and fifth with Alexis Durish and Makenna Wolfe.

The Tigers have been down 17-5 every with two losses to TCU and FSU and one loss to UCLA.

“This can be a massive week to organize for an essential journey to California,” mentioned LSU coach Russell Brock. “ …we have recognized some issues that we all know will help us get higher by Friday. We solely have Tuesday and Wednesday earlier than we depart, so focus and power shall be essential in coaching.”

GCU (15-5) took a 3-2 win over FIU and Cal and swept Texas earlier than dropping to TCU. Lopes received 2nd place with Samaya Morin and Allanis Navas and third place with Cami Sanchez and Anaya Evans.

Seventh-placed Loyola Marymount (16-1) received 20-0 in 4 video games on the West Coast Convention Problem in Santa Cruz. The lions swept Pacific, Saint Mary’s, Santa Clara and Saint Mary’s once more.

8 (20-3), beat CSUN and Cal Poly 6-9 in Huge West Problem, 3-2 win over UC Davis, 4-1 win over Sacramento State and CSU Bakersfield and three -2 wins over #12 Lengthy Seaside State. Hawaii received 18 video games in a row, the second-longest successful streak in program historical past. UH clinched the lead by beating Lengthy Seaside at No. 1 when Brooke Van Sickle and Kaylee Glagua beat Sydney Stevens and Julia West in units of 21-15, 27-25.

9 Cal is 14-5 after getting back from losses to TCU and GCU with a 5-0 win over FIU and Missouri State.

Stanford No. 10 (11-6) was empty on the weekend however is residence to San Francisco and San Jose State on Monday.