Rams Volleyball Loses Against Tough Opponent Pepperdine

The CSU Rams Volleyball (No. 24) team began their season Friday night, against Pepperdine (No. 26), one of their toughest opponents in the 2009-10 season. In all, the Rams didn’t have enough to hold off the more experienced Pepperdine Waves, as CSU lost their first match of the season. It was the first home loss in 29 matches.

The Rams faithful came out strong to defend the Fort on Friday, with a reported 3,876 fans in attendance at Moby Arena, but they were unable to root the Rams to victory. CSU lost 25-23 in the first set, and were devastated in the next two sets 25-17 and 25-14.

CSU (0-1) started every set well early, jumping out to leads, but Pepperdine (1-0) proved too tough for the young Rams even though some young players provided good production including; Izzy Gaulia, Dana Cranston, and Megan Plourde.

Plourde was granted a medical redshirt last season after only being able to participate in five sets in 2008, and she finally got her first start Friday and played well with a .308 hitting percentage for the match. Plourde tied sophomore Katelyn Steffan, junior Danielle Minch, and senior Tessa Nelson with six kills each. She was second behind Steffan, who lead the team in hitting percentage at .333.

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