POMONA – Daisy Duke and Madison Novak scored 14 kills each, while two others enjoyed season-best nights on defense, but the Cal Poly Pomona volleyball team was held to its lowest hitting percentage of the season and fell short of an epic comeback in a grueling, yet heartbreaking five-set loss to Cal State San Bernardino (19-25, 17-25, 25-18, 25-21, 11-15) in a battle of nationally-ranked teams Friday night at The Den in San Bernardino.
 
The No. 17 Broncos see their 14-match win streak snapped in the loss, falling to 14-2 overall and 8-1 in the CCAA. The No. 15 Coyotes rise to 13-3 and 7-2 in conference play.
 
While Cal State San Bernardino won the first two sets and Cal Poly Pomona rallied for wins in the third and fourth sets to force a deciding set, the match only featured nine ties and four lead changes in the two-hour, three-minute battle. The host Coyotes led from start to finish in the  fifth set to earn the hard-fought win over the visiting Broncos.
 
Both teams were almost evenly-matched in every statistical category; the Coyotes led in Kills (58-57), hitting percentage (.186-.167), assists (50-49), aces (5-4) and team blocks (15-13), while the Broncos had the edge in digs (83-76).
 
Novak hit .250 to lead the Broncos while Duke, the reigning AVCA Division II National Player of the Week, was held to a .071 clip. Samantha Campion turned in a double-double effort with 12 kills and 24 digs. Mackenzie Sullivan recorded a season-best 26 digs and Erin McFarland rejected a career-high 10 attacks, two of the solo kind. Kacy Bolding came off the bench in the second set to pass out 27 assists.
 
CSUSB was led by the 17 kills of Ashley Robinson.
 
Cal Poly Pomona and Cal State San Bernardino are set for a highly-anticipated rematch Saturday at Kellogg Arena in Pomona. First serve is set for 5:00 pm.
 
Bronco Bits 

• Head coach Traci Dahl moves to 47-23 in her fourth year (third season) at Cal Poly Pomona, including 37-7 the last two seasons.
• The Broncos have opened their season with an 14-2 record through the first 16 matches for the fourth time in program history, and for the third time in the last four seasons.
• The loss snaps the Broncos' 14-match win streak, the second-longest in program history; the longest win streak in program history came during the 2005 season, a 19-match win streak (from 8/26/05 to 10/15/05).
• Cal Poly Pomona has lost the last seven matchups against Cal State San Bernardino, falling to 26-45 all-time against CSUSB.
• Daisy Duke has recorded double-digit kills in 36 career matches, including 13 this season.
• Kaitlan Tucker entered the weekend as the leading blocker in all of Division II for the second straight week with 1.48 blocks per set.
• As a team, the Broncos also entered the match as the top blocking team in all of NCAA Division II for the second consecutive week at 2.75 blocks per set.
• Ranked in the Top 25 this week at No. 17, CPP is now 275-164 as a nationally-ranked team since 1986.
• The Broncos fall to 53-106 when both CPP and its opponent is ranked in the AVCA Division II Top 25 poll.
• As a program, CPP is now 766-531 all-time, including 234-205 in road matches and 376-296 in conference play since the program's inception in 1980.
• The Broncos have their 16-match win streak in CCAA matches snapped with Friday's loss, which had been the longest such streak in the conference.
• CPP is now 130-107 in five-set matches all-time, snapping a streak of six consecutive victories in CCAA matches that went to a deciding set.

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