TAVARES, Florida — The Texas A&M-Kingsville Beach Volleyball Team continued on to day two of the AVCA Small College Beach Championships where they would take down the Saint Leo Lions 3-1 in the final pool play match up and drop the challenge round to Colorado mesa 0-3.  

Starting out the day TAMUK faced off against the Saint Leo University Lions where they would take them down 3-1.

The No. 1 pair of Kalani Vasquez and Rylan Pollard would drop the fist matchup of the day 17-21 and 13-21 going down in two sets, the Javelinas trailing 0-1.

The No. 3 flight of Olivia Zeigler and Madelyn Wallace would make things even 1-1 as they would take down the Lions needing three sets to do so. They would drop set one 17-21 before only allowing a combined 18 points for the next two sets 21-8, and 15-10.

Pair number 4 of  Liana Huesca and Taylor McCarthy would take down the opposition in two 21-14 in set one and 21-19 in set two putting the Javelinas up 2-1.

Court No. 5 would see Meghan Stiefer and Rylie Anderson produce identical scores 21-15 and 21-15 to give the Javelinas the victory 3-1 sending them to the Challenge Round undefeated.
 
The second matchup of the day saw the Javelinas face off against the Colorado Mesa Mavericks where they would fall 0-3.

Court No. 2  of Grace Gettys and Adrienne VanBrunt would drop their matchup in two sets 18-21 and 16-21 putting the Javelinas behind 0-1. 

Next, court No. 4 saw Huesca and McCarthy fall 11-21 in set one and 19-21 in set two, and the Javelinas down 0-2.

The final dagger would be court five of Stiefer and Anderson who would fall to the mavericks 15-21 and 20-22, putting the Mavericks on top and seeing the Javelinas fall 0-3.

The Javelinas will still participate in the Silver Bracket on Championship Sunday facing off against Tusculum University first at 8:00 AM. In a winning outcome the Javelinas will face either Carson-Newman or Palm Beach Atlantic in the championship at 11:45 AM, and in a losing outcome the Javelinas will face either of the same two squads for third place  at the same time 11:45 AM.

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