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Pepperdine Athletics
Women’s volleyball player sets block record for second year in a row
Pepperdine’s Jasmine
Gross repeated as a record-setter
Saturday, Nov.
4, when she reached 156
blocks on the season during
the rally scoring era.
Last year, as a freshman,
Gross set the record when
she reached 154 blocks for
the season.
Before Gross came
along, the record stood at
143 blocks — a mark set by
Sophia Milo in 2005.
Pepperdine notes that
Gross is now very close to
breaking the Pepperdine
women’s volleyball alltime
single season block
record (including both sideout
and rally scoring eras).
That record has stood at
158 blocks since the 1991
and 1992 seasons when
Lesli Asplund and Barbara
Stross broke it in 111 and
109 sets, respectively.
Gross’ performance —
which included six blocks
(one solo), 11 kills, a .308
hitting percentage and
one ace — also helped the
Waves to a four-set win
over Gonzaga at home. The
Waves, who are now 15-
12 overall and 7-7 in West
Coast Conference action,
won by 19-25, 25-12, 25-
22, 25-15 set scores.
Pepperdine also saw
three double-doubles on the
day as Hannah Frohling,
Heidi Dyer and Blossom
Sato all put up solid efforts
for their team.
This Week In...
Sato, Frohling notch
double-doubles in women’s
volleyball sweep
Pepperdine’s women’s
volleyball team swept
Portland Thursday, Nov. 2,
with 25-16, 25-19, 25-19
sets.
Hannah Frohling had
17 kills, .371 hitting percentage,
10 digs, one ace
and one block solo on the
night, while Blossom Sato
contributed 39 assists and
13 digs.
In the first set, Pepperdine’s
Jaiden Farr (four
aces, eight digs) broke the
3-3 tie when she chipped
in three-consecutive service
aces to help the Waves
to a 5-1 lead.
The Waves then moved
to 9-6 after smashes from
Jasmine Gross — who
had 10 kills, a .409 hitting
percentage, 4 digs and 3
blocks (2 solos) throughout
the match — and Frohling
put them ahead 19-12.
A pair of smashes by Gross
in the middle late in the set
earned the home team a
25-16 first-set win.
In the second match,
Pepperdine’s 19-14 lead
was boosted by an ace
from Farr and solo blocks
from Frohling and Gross,
each of whom would add
more kills to notch the second-set
win.
In the third set, Portland
came ready to fight and
went 17-14 late in the set.
But the Waves, backed by
kills from Frohling and
a block from Dyer and
O’Harra, evened the score
at 17-17 before the trio secured
a 20-17 lead.
Next, Sato spread out
the offense toward kills
from four separate Waves
in the last five points for a
25-19 win.
Pepperdine’s Ashley
Harris also had 5 kills, 2
digs 1 block; Hana Lishman
had 15 digs and 4 assists;
and Alli O’Harra had
7 kills, a .353 hitting percentage
and 4 blocks.
Overall, Pepperdine outhit
Portland with 48 kills
on a .318 clip, compared to
40 kills on a .186 output.
WOMEN’S TENNIS
Gulbe drops out in
semifinals of Jack Kramer
invitational
Singles players Laura
Gulbe and Dzina Milovanovic
represented Pepperdine
at the Jack Kramer
Club Invitational on Saturday,
Nov. 4.
Gulbe beat Oregon’s
Daniela Nasser 7-6, 6-2
to make it to the semifinal
matchup, where she fell
to Washington’s Vanessa
Wong in 6-3, 2-6 and 6-3
matches.
Milovanovic, was defeated
by UCLA’s Abi Altick in
4-6, 7-6, 7-6 matches.
Lahey, Sherif play at Oracle
ITA championship
Pepperdine’s Ashley Lahey
fell in the quarterfinals
of the Oracle ITA National
Fall Championships in Indian
Wells Friday, Nov. 3.
The day prior, Lahey
defeated Virginia player
Rosie Johanson 6-2, 4-6,
6-3 to move forward.
Fellow Waves player
Mayar Sherif fell (4-6, 6-1,
6-3) to Clemson’s Marie
Leduc on Nov. 2.
The team will return to
play in January to compete
in the Hawai’i Invitational
in Honolulu, Hawai’i.
MEN’S TENNIS
Baez heads to Jack Kramer
invitational
One Pepperdine man
also competed at the Jack
Kramer Club Invitational
in Rolling Hills.
Nicholas Baez advanced
to the round of 16 after
a strong performance on
Thursday, Nov. 2, when he
defeated Mateusz Smolick,
of USC, 3-6, 7-6, 10-8.
On Friday, Nov. 3, Baez
faced off against William
Genesen, of Stanford, who
defeated him in two backto-back
6-3 matches in the
round of 16.
The men’s tennis team
is to conclude the fall season
with the LMU Invite,
in Los Angeles, held Nov.
10-12.
MEN’S WATER POLO
Rhodes sets goalkeeper
record
Pepperdine senior Zack
Rhodes has surpassed
1,000 career saves — a first
in program history.
As of Nov. 6, Rhodes had
1,058 saves to his name. He
initially broke 1,000 saves
on Oct. 13 as Pepperdine
faced Long Beach State.
Rhodes impressed out of
the gate, with 268 saves in
his first year in goal, followed
by 228 as a sophomore
and 278 as a junior.
This year, his tally stands at
283 saves thus far.
“Zack is an amazing
leader in and out of the
water for this team,” asssociate
head coach Merrill
Moses said. “He is the defensive
captain of the team,
and he has done a great job
being consistent and giving
us the chances to win close
games throughout his career.”
Urban nabs player of the
week title
On Thursday, Nov. 2,
Pepperdine’s Mark Urban
became the third member
of the men’s water polo
team to be crowned the
Golden Coast Conference
Player of the Week.
Fellow Waves who have
received the honor are Zack
Rhodes and Sam Paur.
Urban earned the honor
after helping the Waves
to a 3-0 record in the previous
week, including a
GCC victory over San
Jose State on Oct. 27. He
had seven goals, including
five against Claremont
Mudd-Scripps on Oct. 28.
He also had two assists on
the week, giving him nine
points for the week.
Waves drop doubleovertime
thriller
Pepperdine’s Marko
Asic had two fourth quarter
goals in the Nov. 3 matchup
against UC Irvine.
It was a double-overtime
match which the Waves ultimately
lost 6-5.
Chris Dilworth, Mark
Urban and George Mooney
also scored for Pepperdine,
which moved to 17-11 on
the year and 2-2 in Golden
Coast Conference play.
Information from Pepperdine
University and www.pepperdinewaves.com.
Compiled
by Editor Lauren Coughlin,
lauren@malibusurfsidenews.
com.
PEPPERDINE ATHLETICS
Cross Country
■Nov. ■ 10 - NCAA West Regional, 12 p.m.
Men’s Water Polo
■Nov. ■ 10 - host UC Santa Barbara, 6 p.m.
Women’s Swimming & Diving
■Nov. ■ 16-18 - at Arena Classic in La Mirada
Women’s Volleyball
■Nov. ■ 9 - at Santa Clara, 7 p.m.
■Nov. ■ 11 - at San Francisco, 12 p.m.