Coyotes suffer untimely loss
The No. 2 Cal State San Bernardino volleyball team was upset by Cal State Los Angeles 3-1 on Saturday. It wasn't a good time for that as the first Division II regional poll will be released on Wednesday.
The national poll is for bragging rights only, it's the regional poll that matters as the team that is first at the end of the season traditionally gets to host the regional tournament.
The Coyotes (16-1, 8-2) would have clearly been first had it not been for the loss. But they got a bit fortunate because Western Washington (13-1), the regining Pacific Regional champion and current No. 3 in the national poll, lost to unranked Alaska-Fairbanks on the road.
The Coyotes only dropped one spot in the national poll released Monday while Western Washington fell from third to tied for seventh.
The Coyotes just completed the first round of CCAA play and are tied for first with long-time nemesis UC San Diego (14-3, 8-2). Cal State does have both San Diego and Cal State Los Angeles (14-3, 7-3) at home the second time through conference play though.
About Michelle
Michelle Gardner has been a staff writer for The Sun and the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin since 2002 and has covered the local college sports scene since 2004. She ventured West after working at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale for eight years and is a graduate of the University of Florida.
E-mail Michelle here.
Leave a comment