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The three-set loss to No. 2 USC last Friday marked the end to one of the worst seasons in program history for the Cal volleyball team — a season that saw them go 9-22, only winning three matches against Pac-12 opponents. Although the Bears won one less match this year,
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On Friday, the Cal volleyball team (9-21, 3-17 Pac-12) entered its game against No. 1 USC (30-2, 18-2) looking not only to upset the best team in the nation, but to spoil the Trojans’ Senior Night. But the Bears would get nowhere close to accomplishing this, once again falling in
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With the deciding fourth set deadlocked at 20-all, Stanford’s senior setter Madi Bugg set up back-to-back kills to give the Cardinal the two-point lead. After calling a timeout, Cal responded with a kill by senior opposite hitter Lillian Schonewise to cut the deficit to one. Schonewise’s kill, however, was for
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Very little was expected of Cal volleyball to start the year after a 2-18 conference record last season. It is safe to say that expecting little of the Bears, who have just three conference victories, is a safe move as they come up on their last two matches of the
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The Cal volleyball team entered last week looking to send off its four seniors the right way: by winning both of its last career home games. The Bears, however, lost both of their games to Utah and Colorado over a three-day stretch. The first game against the Utes for the
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Junior setter Alyssa Jensen squared her shoulders, tossed the ball with a feathery touch and smacked it to the other side of the court. Up four points in the second set, 20-16, Washington State received the serve in-system and got the ball to junior setter Haley MacDonald. She then set
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In the sport of volleyball, losing in three straight sets is the worst way a team could lose. The Cal volleyball team knows this all too well, as it’s lost in three straight sets an astonishing 10 times this season. This includes two recent losses this past weekend. The first
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With three Pac-12 wins on the season, the Cal volleyball team is close to surpassing everything it accomplished in 2014. But this isn’t satisfying enough for the Bears, who will travel up north this weekend to compete against Oregon State on Friday and Oregon on Sunday. This will be the
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The Cal volleyball squad huddled together after a 25-14 first-set pounding by Arizona State. Cal head coach Rich Feller was desperate, searching for any sign of life in his team. Disturbed by their lackadaisical performance to start the match, he handed the Bears a lineup card and told them to
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Last season’s Cal volleyball team set the bar fairly low for this year’s incarnation of the squad by recording only two Pac-12 victories. Starting the back end of their conference schedule, however, the Bears have already met that bar with their most recent win against Washington State and can only
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