Utes Trounce CSUN, Santa Clara, Improve to 9-3

Saturday, March 8

Northridge, CA

10:00 AM

University of Utah

CSUN

Photo by: Jackson Bilawa/Utah Athletics

3/8/2025 4:48 PM | Beach Volleyball

Utah beach improves on best start in program history

NORTHRIDGE, Calif. – The University of Utah beach volleyball team improved on what is already the best start in school history by breezing to two more wins on Saturday, topping CSUN 4-1 and Santa Clara 5-0 at the CSUN Beach Volleyball Complex in Northridge, Calif.

Those two triumphs put the Utes at 9-3 so far in 2025, their best record ever through 12 matches.

Utah vs. CSUN
After suffering a narrow defeat at the hands of the Matadors on Friday, the Utes made sure Saturday's rematch was a very different story. Sonja Wessel and Maeve Griffin secured Utah's first point with a 21-15, 21-15 win at No. 4.

Bella Vezzani and Langley Griffin followed with their seventh straight win out of the second flight, doing so in straight sets, 21-19, 21-13. CSUN then took the fifth match, but Utah's No. 1 tandem of Quincy Stephens and Katie McAlister locked down the victory by triumphing, 21-15, 21-16. The finishing touches were then applied by Kylie Pitzak and Ellyn Collins at No. 3, 21-11, 15-21, 15-13.

1 . McAlister, Katie/Stephens, Quincy (Utah) 2-0 Mae, Tasha/Lindhardt, Kinley (CSUN) 21-15 21-16
2 . Vezzani, Bella/Griffin, Langley (Utah) 2-0 Patrick, Ainsley/Coggins, Haley (CSUN) 21-19 21-13
3 . Pitzak, Kylie/Collins, Elly (Utah) 2-1 Cederlind, Layla/Miles, Maleya (CSUN) 21-11 15-21 15-13
4 . Wessel, Sonja/Griffin, Maeve (Utah) 2-0 Mendiola, Tia/Bazylevych, Julia (CSUN) 21-15 21-15
5 . Hall, Dylan/Heflin, Hannah (CSUN) 2-0 Sayre, Lauren/Narancich, Chloe (Utah) 23-21 21-16
Order of finish: 4, 2, 5, 1*, 3

Utah vs. Santa Clara
For the second straight day, the Utes overpowered the Broncos, this time doing so without dropping a single set.

For the second time on Saturday, Griffin and Wessel got their team off to an excellent start, winning the No. 4 match 21-12, 21-13 and Griffin and Vezzani followed suit in the second spot by a score of 21-15, 21-14.

The point that secured the win came courtesy of Pitzak and Collins at No. 3, 21-14, 21-13 and Stephens and McAlister closed out their match, 21-10, 24-22. Elle Burleson and Lauren Sayre completed the sweep by securing the fifth flight, 21-14, 21-17.

1. Quincy Stephens/Katie McAllister (UTAH) def. Sadie Snipes/Sammy Wood (SCU), 21-10, 24-22
2. Langley Griffin/Bella Vezzani (UTAH) def. Alexandra Urbina/Holland Jackson (SCU), 21-15, 21-14
3. Kylie Pitzak/Elly Collins (UTAH) def. Teagan Wilson/Callie Loughran (SCU), 21-14, 21-13
4. Sonja Wessel/Maeve Griffin (UTAH) def. Noelle Niederman/Ciara Cantlen (SCU), 21-12, 21-13
5. Elle Burleson/Lauren Sayre (UTAH) def. Ava Stoddard/Sveva Munneke (SCU), 21-14, 21-17
6. Hayley Hahn/Kawena Chillingworth (SCU) def. Kayla Johnson/Jayda Van Alfen (UTAH), 21-18, 21-14

Up Next
The next stop for the Utes is Stanford, Calif., where they'll play four times in two days, starting on Friday with matches against Stanford and Saint Mary's.

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