There is a multitude of games on tap for the Falcons between September 14th and 21st as they look to continue their successes on the field as well as on the court.
This past Saturday, the DSC Women’s volleyball team took on #2 NJCAA ranked Miami Dade College trying to defend their home court and bounce back from a loss on the road surrendered to Florida Southwestern State (#1 ranked NJCAA). However, to no avail.
Miami Dade completed a clean sweep of the contest, winning sets 25-16, 25-22, 25-22 to shutout the Falcons. The Sharks’ key to success was forcing errors as well as getting timely kills. They received 36 in comparison to only 26 for DSC. The Falcons’ self-inflicted wounds hurt them more than anything, having 29 errors in total, in contrast to only 18 for Miami Dade.
The second home game in a row welcomed in 10-5 Hillsborough Community College. The Lady Hawks come in steaming, victorious in their last 4 outings. The Falcons took the first 2 sets of this one, 25-23 and 25-10, respectively. While the Lady Hawks clawed back in the 3rd set, winning it 25-19, Daytona State put the bow on this one in the 4th set winning it by a score of 25-24 to come out on top of this one. DSC women’s volleyball now obtains a record of 11-6, good enough to just hang onto the NJCAA rankings, sliding in at no. 19.
Daytona State Men’s soccer looking to keep the ball rolling this past Friday, coming back home with 2 road wins. Taking on Louisiana State University-Eunice, the Falcons looked to claw up the NJCAA rankings. An uneventful first half was quite the opposite from the second half here in Daytona as sophomore Carlos Zambrano opened the scoring, netting his 3rd of the season just 6 minutes into the second half of action. Despite having the lead for a solid 18 minutes, the Bengals fought back from that deficit quickly, scoring in the 69th, 76th, and 79th minutes to contribute and eventually cap off the scoring as the Falcons dropped this one by a final score of 3-1.
Photo by AJ Wilmore.
Tuesday the 19th, DSC welcomed in Eastern Florida State, looking to bounce back from the loss against Louisiana State University-Eunice. Carlos Zambrano opened the scoring on a free kick with 15 minutes to go in the first half. However, this lead was short lived as the Titans answered with a free kick goal of their own just four minutes later. To open the second half, just a minute and 15 seconds in, Eastern Florida scored to take a 2-1 lead. An additional goal from Eastern Florida in crunch time added to their lead. Despite a late goal from Didier Jean Baptiste, the Titans closed the door and the Falcons drop back to back. The boys in blue now sit at 12th on the NJCAA rankings after this week’s contests.
Photo by AJ Wilmore.
The Falcon’s Women’s soccer team has been on fire lately. Things started off this week where the girls faced off against the Louisiana State University-Eunice Bengals. A tightly contested match between the 2 schools taking place in Panama City, with 11 shots combined for both sides. A fundamentally sound contest with essentially no room for error until Carsyn Petersen fed one to Sophomore Arianna Kinsely in the 37th minute to give Daytona State the lone goal of the match. This propelled the girls to the 3rd 7-0 start in school history.
Daytona State ends the week off at #4 in the NJCAA rankings as their match that was scheduled to take place on the road against Eastern Florida State had gotten postponed.
Both the men’s and women’s cross country team headed to Jacksonville State University on Friday September 16th for their second full meets of the season. Coming off of a first place finish at the FAU invitational, the Falcons men’s squad looked to keep the momentum going up in Northern Florida this weekend. Led by sophomores Jared Falchook and Jayven Garcia, with times of 25:27:00 and 25:49:30 respectively, Daytona State finished right in the middle of the pack with a 15ht place finish out of 32 competing teams.
The Falcon girls squad looked to improve on their 9th place finish out of 18 competing teams down at the FAU invitational. A field full of competition led DSC into a tough event, where they were still fortunate enough to finish in the top 2/3, with a 22nd finish out of an extensive field of 36 teams. Notable runners from the Falcons included sophomores Giovana Meade and Shannon Jones who lead the team with respective times of 18:28:40 and 18:59:20.
Another action packed week of Daytona State sports is up next for the Falcons as they’ll look to improve on their successes, and recover from their losses.