{"id":21617,"date":"2013-03-25T09:27:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T13:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=21617"},"modified":"2013-03-25T09:27:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T13:27:40","slug":"sand-volleyball-defeats-jacksonville-to-secure-first-victory-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/03\/sand-volleyball-defeats-jacksonville-to-secure-first-victory-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Sand Volleyball Defeats Jacksonville to Secure First Victory of the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Gulf Coast sand volleyball team picked up its first win of the season, falling to JU 4-1 before defeating the Dolphins 3-2 Sunday afternoon at Estero Community Park.<\/p>\n<p>In the first match of the day sophomore\u00a0<strong>Jill Hopper (Muncie, Ind.\/Yorktown HS)\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>freshman<strong>\u00a0Natalie Feathers (St. Petersburg, Fla.\/Indian Rocks Christian HS)<\/strong>, who played in the No. 5 spot, opened the day with two-set win (22-20, 21-16) over JU\u2019s Kylie Jacob and Thalya Pagan. FGCU\u2019s No. 4 squad, sophomore\u00a0<strong>Liga Strautniece (Riga, Latvia\/Rigas Anglu Gimmazija)<\/strong>\u00a0and junior\u00a0<strong>Christine Pinder (Gainesville, Fla.\/Buchholz HS\/Houston\/Central Florida CC)<\/strong>dropped a hard-fought 2-1 decision (21-13, 17-21, 9-15) to the Dolphin duo of Nicole Teplitz and Emily Laskelle.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After\u00a0senior<strong>\u00a0Lindsey Childs (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.\/South Plantation HS)<\/strong>\u00a0and sophomore\u00a0<strong>Olivia Mesner (Boca Raton, Fla.\/Spanish River HS)<\/strong>\u00a0fell 2-1 (21-12, 18-21, 9-15), the Eagles\u2019 No. 2 pairing of\u00a0<strong>Brooke Kohler (Jupiter, Fla.\/Jupiter HS\/Clemson)\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Brittany Muse (Arcadia, Fla.\/DeSoto County HS)<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>lost to Kendall Courtney and Niatha Cullen 2-1 (18-21, 21-12, 11-15). Junior\u00a0<strong>Kaitlin Holm (Fort Myers, Fla.\/Fort Myers HS\/Marshall)<\/strong>\u00a0and sophomore\u00a0<strong>Whitney Masters (Muncie, Ind.\/Wapahani HS)\u00a0<\/strong>dropped a 2-0 (11-21, 13-21) decision to Sammie Strausbaugh and Taylor Nyquist.<\/p>\n<p>In the second match of the afternoon the Green and Blue defeated Jacksonville 3-2. The duos of Mesner\/Childs, Strautniece\/Pinder and Holm\/Masters picked up 2-0 sweeps to give the Eagles their first win of the 2013 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles will return to the sand on Friday, March 29 when they take on the Ospreys of UNF in Macon, Ga. The match is set to begin at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Gulf Coast sand volleyball team picked up its first win of the season, falling to JU 4-1 before defeating the Dolphins 3-2 Sunday afternoon at Estero Community Park.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}