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From LBSU reports<\/span><\/p>\n Eleven 49er blocks helped Long Beach State defeat UC Riverside in three sets 25-18, 25-15, 25-22. Naomi Washington led the 49ers with 11 kills, while Jocelyn Neely had nine kills on .318 hitting. <\/span>The sweep win sets up a winner-take-all match against UC Irvine tonight at 7pm in the Pyramid.<\/p>\n The 49ers were strong overall defensively. In addition to the 11 blocks, the 49ers held the Highlanders to .107 hitting and had three players in double-figure digs. Libero Lauren Minkel led the team with 16 digs, while Caitlin Ledoux had 12 and Laura Schuck added 10.<\/p>\n After falling behind early, Long Beach State took a 5-4 lead on a Ledoux solo block, the first of four blocks in the set. The 49ers would continue to push from there, taking a 13-8 lead on a Brittney Herzog and Ashley Lee block, leading to a UC Riverside timeout. The break stopped the 49er run, but Long Beach State held that cushion for the rest of the match, eventually winning 25-18 after a Shelby LeDuff service error.<\/p>\n The 49ers never trailed in the second set, scoring four straight points to open the set. UC Riverside cut the 49er lead to one at 5-4, but kills by Brittney Herzog and Caitlin Ledoux put The Beach ahead 10-5. The 49ers’ eighth block of the match a solo by Herzog gave Long Beach State a 14-6 lead, and Long Beach State finished out the set with no further threat from the Highlanders, winning by ten at 25-15. <\/p>\n The final set was the closest of the three, as the Highlanders held the lead as late as 8-7. Long Beach State rallied at that point, eventually taking a 15-11 lead after a Neely kill, and held that four-point cushion until a pair of attack errors from the 49ers led to a four-point run for UCR to tie the set at 19. Three straight Highlander errors put the 49ers back out on top 22-19, and Ashley Lee closed out the match with her third kill in a 25-22 set three victory. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This sweep win over Riverside sets up a match for the conference championship in the Pyramid tonight at 7pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2710"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=2710"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}