{"id":186670,"date":"2025-08-30T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/186670\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T07:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T07:00:19","slug":"falcons-open-season-with-3-1-victory-over-jacksonville-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/186670\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons Open Season with 3-1 Victory over Jacksonville State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>USAF ACADEMY, Colo. &#8212; <\/strong>Career -high performances from senior <a href=\"https:\/\/goairforcefalcons.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/ashley-bible\/22868\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22868\" target=\"_blank\">Ashley Bible<\/a> and the sophomore trio of <a href=\"https:\/\/goairforcefalcons.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/grace-fiaseu\/22871\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22871\" target=\"_blank\">Grace Fiaseu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/goairforcefalcons.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/mia-loyd\/22879\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22879\" target=\"_blank\">Mia Loyd<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/goairforcefalcons.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/alysa-walker\/22883\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22883\" target=\"_blank\">Alysa Walker<\/a> led the Ari Force volleyball team to a season-opening 3-1 victory over Jacksonville State on Friday (Aug. 29) night, during the opening day of the team&#8217;s annual Amy Svoboda Memorial Classic. After splitting the first two sets 25-11, 24-26, the Falcons closed out the match with a pair of 25-17 wins to secure their sixth-straight home-opening win and improve to 3-0 lifetime against the Gamecocks.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWith a 19-kill performance, Bible equaled her career high and paced Fiaseu (career-high 14) and Walker (career-high 11) to 44 of the team&#8217;s 55 kills. The trio was assisted off a stellar night from Loyd, who tallied a personal-best 46 helpers, matched her career-high with four aces, and notched the fifth double-double of her career with 11 digs. Senior <a href=\"https:\/\/goairforcefalcons.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/jordan-suan\/22882\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"22882\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Suan<\/a> added 17 digs on the night to tie for the match lead.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA full set-by-set recap will be available at GoAirForceFalcons.com.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Falcons continue action at the Amy Svoboda Memorial Classic tomorrow (Aug. 30), when they host Portland State at 1:00 p.m. (MT). The Vikings are coming off a 3-2 loss to Jacksonville State and a 3-0 loss to Seattle this afternoon at Cadet East Gym.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"USAF ACADEMY, Colo. &#8212; Career -high performances from senior Ashley Bible and the sophomore trio of Grace Fiaseu,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":186671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-186670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115116429988111588","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}