Box Score 1 ARCATA, Calif. - Oklahoma Christian saw both its fourth sweep and its first loss of the 2025 season as the Eagles beat Jessup in three sets, 25-20, 25-19 and 25-18, before falling to Chico State in five.
Katy Geurin led the offense in match one with 11 kills without a single attack error for a .458 attack percentage while also logging two solo blocks and a pair of block assists.
Sophie Mae Smith and
Summer van Meerveld each came within one dig of posting a double-double as the duo combined for 33 of OC's 38 assists.
Oklahoma Christian (5-1, 0-0 LSC) will meet Dominican Saturday, Sept. 13 at 11:30 a.m. PST/1:30 p.m. CT in its last match of the Redwood Coast Volleyball Classic.
Match One: Oklahoma Christian 3, Jessup 0
On a night where Oklahoma Christian forced 22 attack errors from Jessup, the Eagles posted their fourth sweep of the young season when defeating the Warriors, 25-20, 25-19, 25-18. Through the early going, however, it was the Warriors holding a 12-8 lead before OC mounted a 7-1 run to take its largest lead of the match at 15-13.
With JU closing the gap one final time to 17-17, a solo block, service ace and kill from
Chloe Jones helped spur on an 8-3 run to close the set for the opening-frame victory. From there, OC's defense proved too much as the Warriors were held to as many kills as they had attack errors in the second set for the 25-19 win.
Oklahoma Christian sported two nine-point advantages in the third set in what would end up being the largest margin of victory of the three sets. Following a hot 12-3 start for the Eagles, Jessup brought it as close as five, 20-15, before Geurin used three kills on OC's final five points to put the match away, 25-18.
Match Two: Chico State 3, Oklahoma Christian 2
Oklahoma Christian took the first set, 25-23, before Chico State found itself on the right side of a back-and-forth second and third stanza. Despite trailing the majority of the fourth, the Eagles fought back to force a fifth, winner-take-all, set. For the first time this season, a match's final frame did not go OC's way as the Wildcats delivered the maroon-and-gray its first loss of the 2025 campaign.