PORTLAND, Ore. - The Warner Pacific volleyball team headed south on I-5 for their annual trip to Southern Oregon and Oregon Tech hoping to come back with at least one win, but were tagged with 3-0 and 3-2 losses in CCC play.

The Knights fell in straight sets (25-21, 25-23, 25-11) at Southern Oregon on Friday night. WP attacked at just a .009 percentage compared to .214 for the Raiders. Janessa Mast (11 kills) and Janessa White (13 kills) led the the team, while Brandy Velasquez continued her solid play along the back row with 20 digs.

The contest at Oregon Tech was much closer, but WP ultimately lost in five sets (25-21, 27-25, 27-29, 13-25, 16-14). OIT took the first set 25-21 behind 6 kills from Sophomore Bailey Nelson. The Knights took an early 5-2 lead before Tech rallied to tie the set at 5-5. Tech then built leads of 12-9 and 18-14 but WP battled back to tie things up at 20. The Owls then took five of the final six points for the win.
 
Tech built an early 7-3 lead in the second set before WP scored the next six points to take a 9-7 lead. Following an OIT timeout, Oregon Tech would go on a mini run to take a 16-14 lead. Warner Pacific took a 24-22 lead but OIT would not be denied as they took the next four points to win 26-24.
 
Set 3 was a real battle with the Knights grabbing momentum with a 29-27 win as they scored 4 of the final 5 points.
 
WP kept that momentum going by jumping out to an early 4-0 lead in the fourth set. They grew that lead to 12-7 and 20-12 before winning the 4th set 25-13 to force a final 5th set.
 
In the decisive 5th set it was the Owls who grabbed momentum back with an early 4-1 lead. Back came the Knights to tie the game at 5 and then take a 7-5 lead on one of Janessa Mast's game high 23 kills. The Knights went up 11-9 on yet another kill by Mast. Tech would capture 7 of the final 9 points to win the set 16-14, and take the match 3-2.
  
Tech had a hit percentage of .164 with Warner Pacific having a slightly higher percentage at .168.
 
Kealia Rosa had 50 assists for the Knights.