SAN MARCOS – The Cal State Dominguez Hills volleyball team got off to a promising start to the 2018 campaign against Lewis Friday, having nearing taken the first game in extras and battled in the second set. But the sixth-ranked Flyers claimed all three rounds (38-40, 16-25, 16-25) at Cal State San Marcos' Cougar Classic Friday.
 
TOP PERFORMERS
Tati Yandall – 14 kills, 9 digs
Rylee Brown – 11 kills, 29 hitting percentage
Cathryn Lopez – 20 digs, 4 assists
 
WHAT HAPPENED?
- Despite the Toros getting 43 kills out of 152 total attempts, they couldn't quite break the Flyers defense as 82 of those attacks were stopped. Tati Yandall and freshman Rylee Brown combined for 25 kills to lead Dominguez Hills in that column.
 - The opening set turned out to be the best for the Toros on the day. Neither team trailed by more than three points. While Brown racked up five kills deep into the first set, the Toros had game-point on seven different occasions but couldn't seal the win.
 - Despite the 40-38 result in the first game, the Toros did out-hit the Flyers 27 percent to 23.
 
POST-MATCH NOTES
- Since 2011, the Toros are 5-3 in the first match of the season
- Cathryn Lopez, the program's record holder for digs, picked up where she left off and added on to her career record to 1,113. She also holds the single-season record with 483 set her freshman year.
- It is the 10th straight match (12 of last 13) Tati Yandall has recorded 10 or more kills.
- It is the 13th straight match (17 of last 18) that Cathryn Lopez has made 10 or more digs.
- Rylee Brown becomes the first freshman since recently-graduated Claire Autry to score more than 10 kills. In fact, Autry tallied 14 against Cal State San Bernardino in 2013.
 
WHO'S NEXT?
CSUDH returns to The Sports Center Saturday for a pair of out-of-region matches, starting with No. 8 Nebraska at Kearney at 9 a.m. followed by Indiana University of Pennsylvania at 4 p.m.