{"id":654,"date":"2011-10-31T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/women-s-volleyball-vikings-can-t-hold-late-leads-fall-3-0-to-cerritos\/"},"modified":"2011-10-31T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T11:28:00","slug":"women-s-volleyball-vikings-can-t-hold-late-leads-fall-3-0-to-cerritos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/women-s-volleyball-vikings-can-t-hold-late-leads-fall-3-0-to-cerritos","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Volleyball: Vikings can\u2019t hold late leads, fall 3-0 to Cerritos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>10:00am | <\/strong>The Long Beach City College women\u2019s volleyball team suffered a 3-0 loss to visiting Cerritos College on Friday at LBCC. Cerritos won the tightly contested match by scores of 25-23, 26-24, and 25-19.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Long Beach (7-10, 4-5 SCC) held sizable leads in all three sets, but the Falcons (8-9, 4-4 SCC) rallied to overcome the Vikings and steal the win.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>In Set 1, LBCC was up 21-18 and appeared to be on its way to an early win. But Cerritos took advantage of a pair of Viking errors and tied the score at 23. An ace by Madison Guastella and a kill from setter Gloria Chang gave the Falcons the victory.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>In Set 2,&nbsp; Long Beach stormed out to a 7-1 lead and once again led late 23-21. The Vikings had set point at 24-23, but a serving error and a pair of LBCC hitting errors gave Cerritos the 26-24 win.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The Vikings opened Set 3 with an 8-4 lead before the Falcons caught them at 8-8. Cerritos was up 20-15 before the Vikings made one final push. Two kills by freshman Lani Samoa, an ace from Scarlett Taeleifi, and a Cerritos hitting error got the Vikings back within one point at 20-19. But Long Beach would get no closer as the Falcons scored the next five points, thanks to three LBCC errors, to close out the match.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Freshman outside hitter Doreen Iosua led the Vikings with 14 kills. She also added seven digs. Samoa had 10 kills and seven digs, while Taeleifi chipped in with a team-high 11 digs to go with five kills. Sophomore Kelsey Dix totaled 37 assists.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>For Cerritos, Lupe Garcia totaled nine kills and 15 digs. Madison Guastella led all with 16 digs, and Gloria Chang posted 14 assists and four digs.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Long Beach returns to action on Wednesday (Nov 2) when it travels to face El Camino College in a 6:00pm SCC match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Long Beach City College women\u2019s volleyball team suffered a 3-0 loss to visiting Cerritos College on Friday at LBCC. 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