Score: UC Davis 3, UC Riverside 1
Set Scores: 25-17, 25-20, 18-25, 25-22
Location: Riverside, Calif. (SRC Arena)
Records: UC Davis 15-7 (10-3), UC Riverside 8-18 (3-10)
The short story: Hitting over .300 as a team and getting another outstanding performance from junior
Jade Light put UC Davis volleyball back on the winning path with a four-set victory at UC Riverside to wrap up the road portion of the 2024 regular season.
FIRST SERVE
- Light hit .277 on the night, adding nine digs and 19.0 total points
- Sophomore Breeze Czapinski hit a torrid .421, finishing with 23 kills and three blocks
- Sophomore Ally Chandler could not miss hitting a lights out .688 to finish with 11 kills
- Sophomore Mia Starr set the offense with 25 assists and had 11 digs
- Junior Haden Bones added 28 assists, a season-high, recording a pair of service aces
- As a team UC Davis hit .316 and had 59 digs
HOW IT HAPPENED
- UC Davis pulled ahead through the middle parts of the opening set with several back-to-back point runs
- And with a Czapinski kill on a Starr assist the Aggies took the first set 25-17
- In the second set, both sides traded blows midway through, but the Aggies going on a run to make it 15-11 gave them the push they needed to control the remainder of the set
- Despite UC Riverside making a run late, the Aggies scored the final pair of points with Bones setting freshman Demi Cole for the set winning point to give the Aggies a 25-20 second set win
- UC Riverside took the third set, forcing a fourth set with a 25-18 win
- But the Aggies were up to the task, battling back from a slight deficit in the middle of the set and holding off UC Riverside at 22-22
- The final three points were locked up by the Aggies on the way to the win, and the final touches came on back-to-back kills by Light to shut the door on UC Riverside and win 25-22
- The fourth set victory locked up a 3-1 four-set win to put UC Davis back on the winning track
GAME NOTES
- Utterback now has 1,177 career kills, that places her seventh all-time in program history
- Utterback's 137 career aces places her second all-time in program history
- UC Davis sits at 10-3 in the Big West, remaining in first place in the conference
UP NEXT: UC Davis returns home for the final five matches, with the next being on Sat., Nov. 9 against Hawaii.
