SAN DIEGO—The Sea Lions closed out the first day of the Seaside Invitational with a 3-1 loss against the Simon Fraser Clan out of British Columbia.
 
PLNU once again came out strong in the first set and were able to capitalize off the errors made by SFU to take a 1-0 set lead. Simon Fraser would answer with a win in the next two sets to go ahead 2-1. The Sea Lions had a hot start to the fourth set but SFU stormed back to take the set and match with a 25-22 win.
 
Team Records
PLNU (0-2), SFU (1-1)
 
Scott's Thoughts
"The teams at this tournament give us opportunity after opportunity for great competition. These girls are showing that they can absolutely hang with good teams, despite being 0-2."

"Both of these team we just lost to were postseason teams last year. We went on very long runs of establishing that we are absolutely good enough to compete with them. It is just going to take us some time to build that back up when we lose it."

"We need a quick lapse of memory if we want to perform well tomorrow. When we are feeling good we do everything well, but we need to learn to perform through those times when we aren't feeling at our best on the court."

"The freshman are on the court for a reason and while it might be an up and down ride, we believe they have what it takes to help us compete at the highest level."
 
Scoring Summary
Set 1: PLNU 25, SFU 13
Set 2: SFU 25, PLNU 23
Set 3: SFU 25, PLNU 15
Set 4: SFU 25, PLNU 22
 
News and Notes
> Freshmen Jaime Cymbaluk and Madelynn Fox led the team with 9 kills each.
> Of the 88 points scored by SFU 49 came off of PLNU errors.
> PLNU brought a balanced attack as five of their players had 5 or more kills.
 
Up Next
The Sea Lions will be at home again tomorrow for the second day of the 2017 Seaside Invitational. They will play Cal State LA at 3:30 p.m. and UC San Diego at 8 p.m.