GOLF

LC State Golf opens the 2025-26 season on Monday when the Warriors kick off action at the Walla Walla Invitational at Wine Valley Golf Club. The tournament is part of Cascade Conference play and will count towards CCC standings. 

Golfers teed off at 8 a.m. on Monday with 18 holes for the women and 36 for the men. Both will play 18 in the final round on Tuesday.

A full preview of the season and tournament can be found HERE.

VOLLEYBALL

LC State Volleyball, receiving votes in the national poll, continued its unbeaten start to the season with monster victories over No. 19 Southern Oregon and Oregon Tech. The Warriors face potentially their toughest opponent yet on Tuesday in the first road match of the season at Walla Walla (Wash.). The Wolves also defeated both SOU and OIT over the weekend and have proven they are a force to be reckoned with in the talented Cascade Conference. LC State will wrap up the week at home against Warner Pacific (Ore.) on Saturday. 

The Warriors (5-0, 2-0) opened the 2025 campaign with five straight wins at home and will take that record to College Place, Wash., to face a reinvented Walla Walla (4-1, 2-0) team. The two teams split the regular season in 2024 when LC State defeated WWU 3-1 at home but fell 3-0 in College Place, and Juliauna Forgach Aguilar had 14 kills in each contest. The Warriors are 13-1 against the Wolves since 2010. 

Forgach Aguilar and WWU’s Sahara Browning battled for the CCC lead in kills and kills per set last season, and the trend has continued into 2025. Browning is currently second in the CCC and third in the NAIA, both behind Forgach Aguilar, with 5.35 kills per set. She ranks the same in points per set with 5.76. The Wolves lead the CCC in kills per set (15.41), assists per set (14.71) and digs per set (16.82), and are second in attack percentage (.243). Yaimaris Garcia leads in service aces per set (0.85) and Paula Flores is second with 0.54. Garcia is also fourth in assists per set (6.92) and Vicky Giardina is third in digs per set (4.24).

The Warriors are 13-0 against Warner Pacific (0-3) since 2010 and have swept the last five meetings. In last season’s meeting in Lewiston, Stosich had four aces and Hannah Dotson dished out three. The Warriors held the Knights to a -.047 attack percentage and committed just six attack errors for a .430 attack percentage. 

Forgach Aguilar leads the Cascade and is second in the NAIA in kills per set (5.47) and points per set (6.00). Taylor Boyce is fifth in kills per set (3.37), Karissa Lindner is second in blocks per set (1.61), Ella Stosich is fifth in digs per set (4.05) and Teagan Scott is second in assists per set (9.11). The Warriors are second in the conference in digs per set (16.00) and blocks per set (2.53).

CROSS COUNTRY

The Warriors race for the second time this season on Friday at Washington State’s Cougar Classic in Colfax. The No. 16 women will run the 6k at 5 p.m. and the No. 15 men will follow in the 8k at 5:45 p.m.

Damaris Kibiwot led the LC State women at the Clash of the Inland Northwest with a ninth-place finish and Kobe Wessels led the men in 33rd. Both earned CCC Runner of the Week honors. The Warrior men saw a heavy senior presence in the top five with Wessels, Alexander Fry, Tristin O’Brien and Ben Vernon. Freshman Malachi Walsh rounded out the group. One the women’s side, only five were in action but all five placed in the top 60. The group of Kibiwot, Camille Ussher, Grace Tiegs, Nuala Rollins and Lilly Gilbert tied for fourth and the men were fifth. 

The LC State men placed 10th and the women were 12th at last season’s Cougar Classic behind a large number of NCAA Division I teams.