This is the game day post Long Beach State put on their Instagram. give them a follow: @lbsumvb
Dear Readers~
Just to clarify, UCSB stands for University of California, Santa Barbara. Anyone with a sense of humor (or anyone that has seen the YouTube video titled "UC Stereotypes Explained" by Fung Bros will think something else. Here's the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=int3lFioTtU The part I'm referring to comes at 3:18 if you'd like to watch that part. Anyways, back to the game.
So on Friday, March 15, 2019 Long Beach State traveled up the coast to Santa Barbara, California for the next meet up between #1 Long Beach State and #3 UCSB for a game of men's indoor volleyball at the Robertson Gym there in Santa Barbara, California. The last time the two teams played each other was on Thursday, March 14, 2019 when UCSB traveled down the coast to play at Long Beach State. That game was close. The results to the game on March 14th will be linked below: https://longbeachstate.com/boxscore.aspx?id=6115&path=mvball
The game they had at UCSB was just as intense as the previous game they had against each other at Long Beach State. Set 1 ended 31-29 in favor of UCSB but Long Beach State got their revenge by winning the secondset 31-29. The third set was the only set that ended at 25. That score was 25-14 with Long Beach State up 2 sets to 1 against UCSB. Going into the fourth set UCSB knew that if Long Beach State won this fourth set the game would be over. With both teams battling hard, the fourth set ended 26-24 with Long Beach State coming out on top and winning 3 of the 4 sets that day. By beating UCSB at both home and away in back to back games, Long Beach State has a total record of 19-0 for the season while UCSB is sitting at 15-5.
Now it's time to see how the top players did in each category. The leader in kills goes to Long Beach State's TJ DeFalco, with 20, while Carey Chavers and Spencer Fredrick led UCSB with 16 kills each. The leader in aces goes to Long Beach State's Ethan Siegfried, with 4, while Ryan Wilcox, Keenan Sanders, and Brandon Hicks all had 1 ace each for UCSB. The leader in blocks was Long Beach State's Nick Amado, with 6, while Brandon Hicks and Carey Chavers had 3 blocks each for UCSB. The assists had some crazy numbers. The most went to Long Beach State's Josh Tuaniga, with 52, while UCSB's Casey McGarry had 44 assists of his own. The leader of digs was UCSB's Hayden Boehle, at 14, while Long Beach State's leader was TJ DeFalco, with 11 of his own.
These are the results of the game that Long Beach State put on their men's volleyball Instagram page
The next game for Long Beach State is on Saturday, March 23, 2019 when they travel to Los Angeles to take on USC at 7 pm Pacific Time. UCSB has a little longer since their next game isn't until Friday, March 29, 2019 at 7pm Pacific Time when they take on CSUN (California State University, Northridge) in Santa Barbara.
So as many of you know, the AVP's Taylor Crabb attended Long Beach State but what you may not have known is that another well known AVP player was also at Long Beach State. This time I'm talking on the women's side about Caitlin Ledoux. She wasn't in any of the videos with the Mckibbin brothers but she was in a video with the Sandcast Podcast, done by AVP pros Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter so check that out at the link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LefgU1aryUQ and don't forget to follow all of them on Instagram: @caitlinledouxbeachvolley for Caitlin, @trammew for Travis, and @tribourne for Tri to see what they're up to these days.
This was the first FIVB medal that Caitlin ever won. This was at the 3 start FIVB event in Chetumal, Mexico back in 2018
UCSB has an AVP player as well. This man is actually not currently on the AVP but he's famous enough that I had to mention. I'm talking about the Beijing 2008 Olympic gold medalist along with Phil Dalhausser and now head beach volleyball coach at Cal Poly, Mr. Todd Rogers. As many of you know, I've mentioned current AVP player Allie Wheeler before, who helps Rogers coach at Cal Poly. Here's a highlight of Rogers and Dalhausser when they won gold back in Beijing at the 2008 Olympics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTiiWMQ5xIs Don't forget to follow Todd, Phil, and Allie on Instagram: @toddjrogers, @phildalhausser, and @alwheels12 to keep up with what they do.
This is a photo that Todd Rogers put on his Instagram in Manhattan Beach. He has a total of 2 pictures on his Instagram.
That concludes my blog between Long Beach State and UC Santa Barbara. Don't forget to mark your calendars for the first weekend of May when the AVP goes to Huntington Beach, the NCAA men's indoor volleyball national championships happen at Long Beach State, and the NCAA women's beach volleyball national championships happen in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Until next time, Miller out
~J. Miller
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