Cuesta Women's Volleyball hosted WSC Interdivisional rival Citrus and defended their homecourt with a four-set win (19-25, 25-14, 25-21, 25-22) over the visiting Fighting Owls.  The Cougars are now 2-0 at home and 6-5 overall on the season.  

The Owls stepped off the bus and took control of the match by winning the first set, 25-19, but Cuesta bounced back to take the next three sets and the match.  The Cougars jumped out to a 10-4 lead in the second set and cruised to victory, 25-14, to even the match.  The key to the night was the back-and-forth of the crucial third set.  The Cougars could not break free of the Owls, apart from a pair of short-lived three-points runs at 10-7 and 20-17, and the two teams stood at nearly even at 21-20 with control of the match in the balance.  Homecourt advantage favored the Cougars and Cuesta rallied to take four of the next five points to take the set and claim a 2-1 lead in the match.  The first team to twenty points won each of the first three sets and it was the same for Game 4.  In another point-for-point battle, Cuesta finally broke free of a 16-16 tie by winning the next five points and clearing a path to victory, 20-17.  The Fighting Owls, as expected, battled back to 24-22, but, ultimately, fell on the next serve, 25-22.  The victory pushed the Cougars' season record back over .500, at 6-5, while Citrus dropped to a respectable, 7-5 on the season.  

Cuesta's Spikers return to the road this Friday (6 PM) to face another Western State Conference-South Division foe, when they travel to Glendale.