Ultimate Week of Volleyball Season Sees Pacific on Highway

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Pacific has two remaining contests within the 2025 season and can play these matches on the street, going through San Diego tomorrow at 6 p.m. on the Jenny Craig Pavilion after which play once more after Thanksgiving on Saturday at 1 p.m. in opposition to LMU at Gersten Pavilion.

The Tigers (8-19, 2-14 WCC) have a chance to spoil San Diego’s (23-0, 16-4 WCC) bid for an ideal convention slate and finish the Toreros’ 16-game successful streak. For that to occur, graduate Olivia Keller might want to replicate her efficiency from final day out the place she tallied 18 kills in opposition to San Francisco – her second-best outing of the convention slate. Keller has been one of many high offensive choices within the WCC throughout convention play, tying for seventh in kills per set at 3.30.

Following her 50-assist outburst, sophomore Alessia Couchond broke again into the highest ten in assists per set, elevating her common to five.98/set in opposition to WCC opponents. A Tigers win can be the primary street victory in opposition to San Diego within the all-time sequence historical past.

The workforce has a chance to make historical past when the workforce takes on LMU (5-20, 3-13 WCC) on Saturday as a Tigers win would imply the primary season sweep of the Lions since 2016. In newer historical past, Pacific might be seeking to snap a three-match slide enjoying at Gersten Pavilion and notch the primary win there since 2021.

Keller was Pacific’s featured student-athlete on this season’s earlier match-up, going for a 19 kill-13 dig double-double within the four-set win. Despite splitting time because the Tigers’ main setter in that assembly, Couchond was equally efficient with 31 assists and dominated from the service line with 4 aces.

Pacific was buoyed by an enormous block as effectively, getting a number of solo blocks from each senior Logan Blutreich and graduate Valentina Varani together with 11 block assists from six Tigers. Varani would be the one to observe as she enters the week with 98 complete blocks.

The 79 digs Pacific tallied stays its season excessive and noticed double digit efforts from 5 Tigers led by senior Jayhlin Swain’s 17.

Both matches may be seen on ESPN+.

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