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The FGCU sand volleyball team fought hard to stay alive but eventually fell to No. 3 Jacksonville on the final day of play at the 2013 Atlantic Sun Conference Sand Volleyball Championships Sunday afternoon at the Dolphin Beach Volleyball Complex.<\/p>\n
The Green and Blue finish the 2013 season with a 5-10 overall record.<\/p>\n
FGCU took a quick 2-0 lead in the match after sophomores\u00a0Jill Hopper (Muncie, Ind.\/Yorktown HS)\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Gigi Meyer (Gainesville, Fla.\/Buchholz HS)\u00a0<\/strong>claimed a win at No. 5 (21-17, 21-19) and sophomore\u00a0Liga Strautniece (Riga, Latvia\/Rigas Anglu Gimmazija)<\/strong>\u00a0and junior\u00a0Christine Pinder (Gainesville, Fla.\/Buchholz HS\/Houston\/Central Florida CC)<\/strong>\u00a0picked up a sweep (21-9, 21-14) in the No. 4 position.<\/p>\n The Dolphins responded when the No. 1 pair of Sammie Strausbaugh and Taylor Nyquist\u00a0<\/strong>won in straight sets, 21-12 and 21-10, over the senior duo of\u00a0Brooke Kohler (Jupiter, Fla.\/Jupiter HS\/Clemson)\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Brittany Muse (Arcadia, Fla.\/DeSoto County HS)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Next up was the No. 3 pair of senior\u00a0Lindsey Childs (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.\/South Plantation HS)<\/strong>\u00a0and sophomoreOlivia Mesner (Boca Raton, Fla.\/Spanish River HS)<\/strong>. Childs and Mesner took the first set 21-11 and Gabriela Roman and Alyssa Robertson rallied from a 14-11 deficit in the second set to force a third set, which they won 15-11 to complete a 11-21, 21-19, 15-11 victory.<\/p>\n Junior\u00a0Kaitlin Holm (Fort Myers, Fla.\/Fort Myers HS\/Marshall)<\/strong>\u00a0and sophomore\u00a0Whitney Masters (Muncie, Ind.\/Wapahani HS)<\/strong>, playing in the No. 2 spot, would participate in the deciding match. The Dolphin duo of Kendall Courtney and Niatha Cullen took the first set 21-19, but Holm and Masters fought hard in the second game to pick up a 21-19 win to tie the match at 1-1. With the score tied at 10-10 in the deciding third set, JU scored five of the final six points in set three to complete a 2-1 (21-19, 19-21, 15-12) victory.<\/p>\n Holm and Masters, who earned 2013 All-Conference honors, earned a spot on the All-Tournament Team along with JU\u2019s Strausbaugh and Nyquist Budinska, UNF\u2019s Anna Budinska, Dagnija Medina, Anna Wagner and Emily Strack and Caroline Carlton and Emily Rochefort of Mercer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The FGCU sand volleyball team fought hard to stay alive but eventually fell to No. 3 Jacksonville on the final day of play at the 2013 Atlantic Sun Conference Sand… <\/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\/22693"}],"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=22693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}