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Mustangs Hand Aggies First Big West Loss, Extend Home Streak to 16 Matches
10/25/2025 5:30:00 PM | Women's Volleyball
SAN LUIS OBISPO — The Cal Poly Mustangs extended their home winning streak to 16 matches, a run lasting a full calendar year since their last loss on Oct. 26, 2024, with a firm 3-1 victory (21-25, 25-20, 25-12, 25-21) over UC Davis at Mott Athletics Center.
With the win, Cal Poly improved to 12-0 at home this season, still the best record in Division I, and 17-5 overall (8-2 Big West). The Mustangs now also hold the conference's longest active win streak at six matches and handed the Aggies their first Big West loss of the season.
Both teams struggled offensively in a gritty, defensive first set. The Mustangs narrowly led in hitting percentage (.026 to .000) and committed one fewer error on identical kill and attempt tallies. However, Cal Poly could never gain enough ground to take the lead, and UC Davis closed out the tight set 25-21.
The Mustangs' offense took a slight step back in the second set despite an early lead, but their net-front defense stepped up, holding the Aggies under a .100 hitting percentage for a second time to even the match with a 25-20 win. Cal Poly held a multi-point lead for most of the frame, leaning on key kills from Kendall Beshear and Emma Fredrick, while Annabelle Thalken and Chloe Leluge expertly guarded the net for multiple blocks.
The third set featured an offensive explosion from the Mustangs, who hit .500 as a team with ten kills on 18 attacks and only one error. A series of multi-point runs in the middle of the set gave Cal Poly a sizable lead it never relinquished, cruising to a 25-12 victory.
That momentum carried into the fourth set, where the Mustangs remained remarkably efficient, hitting .308. UC Davis played catch-up for virtually the entire set and never regained enough momentum to overcome Cal Poly's dominant stretch.
Led by Leluge's match-leading eight block assists, and with Charlotte Kelly and Thalken combining for eleven, the Mustangs racked up 12 total blocks compared to just three from UC Davis, the Big West blocks leader. More importantly, that net-front wall helped contain one of the conference's best attackers, Jade Light, to just .089 hitting.
Fredrick (11 kills, 15 digs) and Beshear (18 kills, 13 digs) each tallied double-doubles, fueling the hot offense; Fredrick also supplied three service aces. Elif Hurriyet, looking every bit the prime Big West All-Freshman libero she was last season, led the match with 18 digs, backed by London Haberfield's 13. Emme Bullis distributed 39 total assists, averaging nearly ten per set.
After handing UC Davis its first conference loss, the Mustangs now sit just one game behind the Aggies for first place and also hold the head-to-head tiebreaker with Saturday's victory. Cal Poly begins the second half of the conference slate with a pair of road matchups at Cal State Bakersfield (10/31) and CSUN (11/1) next weekend.
