The Cal State Northridge women’s volleyball team made changes to its starting lineup Friday night, hoping it would bring in its first home victory of the season and a 2-0 start in Big West Conference play, but Long Beach State didn’t allow it. The Matadors (7-7, 1-1) fell to 0-3 at the Matadome and dropped to fifth place in the league standings after losing to the 49ers (8-5, 2-1) in four sets (25-21, 25-22, 16-25, 25-21). Monica McFarland started at… Read more

The CSUN women’s volleyball team hopes to continue its winning formula in Big West Conference play as it prepares for its conference home opener against Long Beach State Friday night. The Matadors (7-6, Big West 1-0) started their Big West Conference schedule on the right note after beating UC Riverside on the road Saturday night. The Matadors swept the Highlanders in front of a hostile crowd at the UCR Recreation Center. CSUN was led by excellent passing and aggressive hitting… Read more

The Los Angeles Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw is leading Major League Baseball’s biggest names in pitching in nearly every statistical category and pretty much locked up the National League Cy Young award after winning the NL Triple Crown. He was far ahead of anyone else in strikeouts in the NL with 248. Kershaw held off Roy Halladay in the ERA race with a crisp 2.28 ERA and his 21 wins tied for first in the NL with Arizona Diamondback Ian… Read more

Behind Mahina Haina’s team-high 13 kills, the Cal State Northridge women’s volleyball team opened its Big West Conference season with a straight-set victory (27-25, 25-16, 25-20) over UC Riverside on Saturday night at the UCR Recreation Center. A match-up between teams projected to finish in the bottom of the league standings by the Big West Coaches’ poll proved to be an exciting one as the UCR crowd made its presence felt. “It’s always nice to play in front of a… Read more

The Cal State Northridge women’s volleyball team will put its respectable 6-6 non-conference record behind as it starts Big West Conference play Saturday night at UC Riverside. The Big West is arguably the second toughest conference in the west coast, behind the  Pac-12. Having battled teams from that league as part of their non-conference schedule will benefit the Matadors in conference play, CSUN head coach Jeff Stork said. “We played three Pac-12 teams (Utah State, USC, and UCLA) in our… Read more

BYU and its impressive 10-3 record entered the Matadome Saturday afternoon on the back end of a six-game road trip along with a heartbreaking defeat the prior night at Cal State Fullerton. All signs pointed towards a weary Cougar team and a solid opportunity for the well-rested Cal State Northridge women’s volleyball team, which hadn’t played since Monday night, to come out of the match with a win. However, the Matadors (6-6) didn’t seize the opportunity as they dropped the… Read more

Coming off a hard-fought loss to No. 9 USC, the CSUN women’s volleyball team will look to rebound at the UNLV tournament on Friday and Saturday. The Matadors will get back on the road and look to repeat last week’s success, when they swept the Sacramento State Invitational and outside hitter Mahina Haina was named MVP. CSUN will face Eastern Washington on Friday, Southern Utah on Saturday morning and host UNLV later on that evening. “We won (the 2010 UNLV)… Read more