{"id":30407,"date":"2025-09-17T22:40:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/?p=30407"},"modified":"2025-09-17T22:40:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:40:52","slug":"1-ranked-volleyball-tops-tacoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/2025\/09\/17\/1-ranked-volleyball-tops-tacoma\/","title":{"rendered":"#1 Ranked Volleyball Tops Tacoma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"754\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/09\/VB-Merhoff-1024x754.jpg\" alt=\"volleyball player\" class=\"wp-image-30408 img-fluid \" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/09\/VB-Merhoff-1024x754.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/09\/VB-Merhoff-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/09\/VB-Merhoff-768x566.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/09\/VB-Merhoff.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">BC Athletics. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fresh off a unanimous top ranking in the conference poll, Bellevue College volleyball held off a tough Tacoma team winning in four sets (23-25, 25-22, 25-22, 25-23) at Courter Family Athletic Pavilion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After dropping the first set, Bellevue stormed out 17-9 in set two before the Titans rallied to make it a competitive set closing to 23-20. Ava Nowak and Kawehi Sarona delivered the final two blows for the win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bellevue found themselves down late in set three 23-22 before rallying late once again. Cadence Lyon and Gillian Merhoff delivered big points to lead the comeback as Merhoff&#8217;s kill off an assist by Maile Kuamo&#8217;o led to BC&#8217;s 25th set-winning point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nowak delivered again late in set four with the match knotted at 18 to give BC a lead which they would go on to hold for the remainder of the set for the win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8216;dogs escaped with a win despite a rough night offensively, committing a season-high 15 errors in a set and labored at the serve line with three more errors than aces. Merhoff led BC with 14 kills while Liv Deckard and Lucci Unga had 19 and 16 digs respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bellevue will have a week off of competition before hosting defending NWAC Champion, Skagit Valley, a team in the midst of a rebuilding year, next Wed. Sept. 24 at 7 p.m. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bellevue will look to preserve their recent number one ranking in the latest NWAC Ticketsmarter Coaches&#8217; Poll. Bellevue received all 20 first place votes in their ranking; believed to be a first in all-time program history. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BC Athletics. Fresh off a unanimous top ranking in the conference poll, Bellevue College volleyball held off a tough Tacoma team winning in four sets (23-25, 25-22, 25-22, 25-23) at Courter Family Athletic Pavilion. After dropping the first set, Bellevue stormed out 17-9 in set two before the Titans rallied to make it a competitive <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/2025\/09\/17\/1-ranked-volleyball-tops-tacoma\/\">...more about #1 Ranked Volleyball Tops Tacoma<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[32,6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-volleyball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30409,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30407\/revisions\/30409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}