Women's Volleyball Has Chance To Tie For SCC North Title

The state #21-ranked Pasadena City College women's volleyball team knows the stakes for this Wednesday's match when it hosts #14-rated Mt. San Antono College. The Lancers can likely gain a share of the South Coast Conference North Division title with a victory. A loss and Mt. SAC will go on to win the championship outright.

PCC (13-12 overall) is 4-1 in division play after a sweep at East Los Angeles, 25-12, 25-19, 25-20, on Nov. 1. Mt. SAC (16-6) is 4-0. Both teams will likely win their remaining division contests which would either create a tie at 7-1 or the Mounties can go undefeated at 8-0.

On Oct. 9, Mt. San Antonio won the first matchup v. the Lancers in four sets, 25-15, 26-24, 23-25, 25-19. 

Against ELAC, Biko Hollie continued her tremendous sophomore season as she hit .520 with 14 kills and 14 digs (plus two aces) while Chayse Hoon landed 12 kills (.308). Brianna Galvan added six kills (just seven swings), three aces and two blocks and Mahrie Bedjakian chipped in three kills and two blocks. Emily Licon posted 14 digs. Kamea Vongfak dished out 30 assists. 

On Oct. 30 at PCC, #11 Cerritos swept the Lancers, 25-18, 25-23, 25-21, as four of the Falcons reached 11 or more kills, including a triple-double by UC Santa Cruz transfer Sydney May, who rifled 12 kills, set 18 assists and made 12 digs. Hoon scored 13 kills, Hollie 11, and Savannah Curtis added five kills and four blocks. Licon led the defense with 16 digs while Juyeon Lee (three aces) and Marina Segura contributed 10 digs each. 

Pasadena is all over the SCC statistics leaderboard as Hollie tops the conference with 305 kills (second in average at 3.67 per set) and 340.5 points, and she is fourth in overall digs with 249 (3.0 per set). She is just the seventh Lancer to ever reach the 300-kill milestone. 

Licon leads in digs (326) and digs per set (4.87) while Vongfak tops the setters with 525 and a 6.33 average. Hoon is second in kills with 259 (3.20 average is fourth). Curtis is second in blocks per set at 1.0 and has made 55 stuffs overall.

Licon, redshirt sophomore libero who was All-SCC in 2022, has an opportunity to set two defensive school records as she is 69 digs away from breaking the mark for most digs in a season set by Grace Crawford (394, 2019) and she is on a pace to pass the digs average per set record of Sabrina Takeuchi (4.83, 2014). She just passed the 600-dig milestone in her career.

The PCC match v. Mt. SAC is set for 6 p.m. on Nov. 6 at Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium.