Beach Volleyball Opens Season with Doubleheader
The Dons traveled to Golden West College where they took on the host Rustlers as well as Orange Coast College.
HUNTINGTON BEACH - The Dons officially kicked off the 2016 beach volleyball season with a pair of matches against Golden West College and Orange Coast College at Golden West College. The Dons went 1-4 in each of the two matches while four of the 10 pairings went to a third set.
Both of the Dons victories belonged to the pairing of Myriah Kunipo-Aguirre and Michelle Nguyen. The duo defeated Golden West's pairing of Marina Adolpho and Samantha Ureno in straight sets, 22-20 and 21-10, while it took three sets, 9-21, 21-19, 15-13, to defeat Orange Coast's pairing of Danyelle Brown and Alyssa Assayag.
Alejandrina Alejandro and Chloe Anderson pushed Golden West's Annie Ellis and Antoni Perry to three sets before falling 22-20, 13-21, 9-15 while two more of the Dons pairings against Orange Coast went to three sets, along with the Kunipo-Aguirre/Nguyen victory.
Esther Arroyo and Haylie Slater forced a third set against Adelle Buede and Tiffany Boykin when they followed their opening-set loss of 21-11 with a 21-23 win. Buede and Boykin would, however, come back and claim the overall win with a third set score of 15-4. Madison Logan and Trinh Ngoc Nguyen also forced a third set in their 11-21, 21-14, 7-15 loss to Diana Che and Megan Becker.
Next up for the Dons is a doubleheader at Irvine Valley College against the host Lasers and Cypress College on Friday, March 18.
