HCU Huskies to host Southland Showcase beach volleyball tourney

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HOUSTON, TEXS (March 10, 2023) The HCU Huskies will host five schools beginning on Saturday, March 11 at Third Coast Volleyball in the Southland Showcase Beach Volleyball Tournament. The Huskies will face fellow Southland Conference beach volleyball teams from Nicholls State, San Jose State, Boise State, Southeastern, and New Orleans to the sand courts in southwest Houston.

The Huskies (2-6) will first face Nicholls State (2-6) at 1 p.m. on Saturday, followed by San Jose State (4-0) at 3 p.m. On Sunday, they kickoff at 9 a.m. against Boise State (6-2) with a matchup against Southeastern (3-6) at 1 p.m. They will close out the action against New Orleans (5-3) at 3 p.m.

HCU is coming off a 2-3 loss to Boise State on March 5.

HBU Huskies down ULM 4-1 in beach volleyball action

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FORT WORTH, TEXAS (February 24, 2018) The HBU Huskies kicked off the 2018 NCAA beach volleyball season at the Horned Frog Challenge on the beach volleyball courts adjacent to the University Recreation Center on the campus of TCU on Saturday, February 24, 2018. In their second match of the day, the Huskies downed the University of Louisiana Monroe by the score of 4-1.

The number 4 doubles team of Danielle Wheeler and Brennan Miller downed Bailey Smith and Allie Kemp 21-15, 21-17 to give the Huskies a 1-0 lead. HBU made the score 2-0 when Megan Carter and Kali Fluke (number 5 doubles) beat Holland Ponithieux and McKenna Webster 17-21, 23-21, 15-10. The number 1 doubles duo of Jessica Wooten and Aeriel Horton made the score 3-0 with a 21-19, 21-11 win over Gabby Love and Maile Sellers.

ULM took the fourth match (number 3 doubles) when Catherine Griffith and Rebecca Brown downed HBU's Bailey Banks and Katya Silveria in a close match 21-19, 26-24, taking the score to HBU 3, ULM 1. In the final match, Kayla Armer and Tori Hinojosa downed Grace Convey and Kayla Gailant 21-19, 21-18. 

Earlier in the day, HBU fell to No. 13 TCU 4-1. The Huskies next match will be against the New Orleans Privateers in the New Orleans Invitational om March 3-4.

HBU beach volleyball comes up short against No. 2 Florida State

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FORT WORTH, TEXAS (March 19, 2016) The Houston Baptist University beach volleyball team dropped their first match of the 2016 season with a 5-0 loss to the No. 2 Florida State Seminoles in the Fight at the Fort tournament at the TCU Beach Volleyball Courts in Fort Worth, Texas on Saturday, March 19, 2016. In the best three-out-of-five match, the Huskies dropped all five sets in two games.

Both duos of Guinevere Meyer and Haley Durham and Hailey Erickson and Laura Fox dropped their sets by identical scores of 21-13, 21-14 to their Florida State opponents. Meyer and Durham fell to Eva Torruella and Brooke Kuhlman while Erickson and Fox lost to Katherine Plessy and Ali Eager.

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The HBU pair of Madison O’Brien and Bailey Banks dropped a 21-11, 21-12 decision to the Seminoles’ Tori Paranagua and Nona Pelletier. Fellow Huskies Ashlee Vann and Melissa Fuchs came up short in their set by the same score against Nikki Esposito and Haley Luke. In the fifth match, Jessica Wooten and Aeriel Horton lost 21-4, 21-8 to Jace Pardon and Julie Brown.

Florida State finished the 2015 season with a 13-6 record and a tie for seventh finish at the AVCA Sand Volleyball National Championships. 2016 is their fifth year of competition. They will next face the TCU Horned Frogs in the second round of the tournament. Next up for the Huskies is a Saturday afternoon matchup against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. The Islanders dropped a 5-0 decision to host TCU to go to 0-3 for the season. With the win, the Horned Frogs raised their season record to 5-2.

HBU takes inaugural beach volleyball match 3-2 over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi

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HOUSTON, TEXAS (March 17, 2016) The Houston Baptist University Huskies kicked off their NCAA beach volleyball season with a 3-2 win over the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders at Third Coast Volleyball Club in Houston, Texas on Thursday, March 17, 2016. The Huskies took all three matches in straight sets, with one of their losses going to a deciding third set in the first meeting of the season kickoff double header.

The duo of Haley Durham and Guinevere Meyer took the first sets by the scores of 21-19 and 21-6 over the Islanders’ Mallory Moran and Kirstee McGarva. The Islanders pair kept it close in the first set, with the Husky duo totally dominating the second game for the victory.

The Huskies took two additional set for the overall win. The pair of Ashley Van and Melissa Fuchs downed Corpus Christi’s Morgan Williams and Madeleine Doud in straight games; 21-14, 21-14. Their third win was a 21-8, 21-9 decision by Jessica Wooten and Aeriel Horton over Brianna Brink and Kate Klepetka. The Islanders’ Maddie Woods and Madison Green took a 21-10, 21-19 decision over HBU’s Hailey Erickson and Laura Fox for one of their wins. In the only three-game set of the day, the Corpus Christi’s Kristyn Nicholson and Morgan Carlson downed the HBU pair of Madison O’Brien and Bailey Banks 21-17, 21-23, 19-17.

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The Huskies and the Islanders will face off later in the day in the nightcap of the double-header. After the Houston matchup between the two first-year teams, they will both head to Fort Worth to compete in the Fight at the Fort tournament on March 19-20, 2016. The tournament is hosted by TCU and will include No. 2 Florida State.