Ducks Fall in MPSF Opener

Wednesday, April 22

Huntington Beach, CA

10:00 AM

University of Oregon

Washington

Photo by: GoDucks.com

04/22/26 | Women's Beach Volleyball

MPSF Championship Central

Oregon will face No. 13 LSU in an elimination match Thursday at 9 a.m.

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. – The Oregon beach volleyball team lost to 20^th-ranked Washington in the opening match of the MPSF Championship Wednesday in Huntington Beach, Calif. The Ducks will next face No. 13 and tournament 7-seed LSU in an elimination match Thursday morning on B1G+.

Washington took an early 2-0 lead but Oregon (17-17) got on the board with a win at No. 1 pairs from Gwen Fife and AJ Slojkowski. The duo beat Emma Hohenauer and Katarina Pantovic in straight sets to give the Ducks' their lone point of the match. It was Fife and Slojkowski's 12^th victory of the season and third at the top of the lineup.

The Huskies went on to close out the dual at No. 2 pairs. The match at No. 5 pairs featuring the Ducks' Landree Coats and Natasha George was left unfinished when the dual was clinched.

The win for Fife was the 17^th of her UO career, moving her into the top 20 of the program's all-time list.

Match 34: [8] Washington 3, [9] Oregon 1
1: Fife/Slojkowski (ORE) def. Hohenauer/Pantovic (WASH) – 21-15, 21-17
2: Tyus/Wilcock (WASH) def. Gamache/Rossi (ORE) – 21-16, 21-18
3: Egan/Tomasova (WASH) def. McClellan/Snipes (ORE) – 21-13, 21-16
4: Brown/Hay (WASH) def. Bjornson/Taylor (ORE) – 21-16, 21-10
5: Towne/Urzua (WASH) vs Coats/George (ORE) – 21-19, 20-14 [unf.]
Order of Finish: 3, 4, 1, 2*

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