No. 19 USC Women's Volleyball Collects Four-Set Win Over UC Davis

Friday, September 18

Los Angeles, Calif.

7:00 p.m. PT

USC

5-3,0-0Big Ten

UC Davis

3-7,0-0Mountain West

Team	1	2	3	4	Final F
UC Davis	16	24	32	26	1
Southern California	25	26	30	28	3

Highlights Press Conference

Photo by: Bryce Dechert

No. 19 USC Women's Volleyball Collects Four-Set Win Over UC Davis

September 18, 2026 | Women's Volleyball

Box Score Highlights Press Conference

The Women of Troy got double-doubles from Adonia Faumuina and Lilli Etter in a victory over the Aggies

LOS ANGELES – The 19th-ranked USC women's volleyball team (5-3) defeated UC Davis (3-7) in four sets (25-16, 26-24, 30-32, 28-26) at Galen Center on Friday, Sept. 18.

KEY PLAYERS

RS Sr. OH Adonia Faumuina logged her second-career double-double with 14 kills and a career-high 16 digs. It was her first double-double since she produced one in her first-collegiate contest; a win over UCLA.
Jr. S Lilli Etter put up 39 assists and had 16 digs for her second double-double as a Trojan (23rd of her career) and added two blocks, a kill, and a service ace.
RS Jr. MB Leah Ford had six kills, three blocks, and three digs.
Jr. MB Mia Tvrdy reached double-digits for the first time this season and tallied 10 kills (3e, 18att) with .389 hitting to go with four blocks and a dig.
RS Jr. London Wijay scored eight kills and had a season-high 14 digs to go with two blocks and a service ace.
Fr. OH Layli Ostovar tallied five kills (1e, 12att) including the last two of the match and hit .333 to go with five digs and a pair of service aces.
For the Aggies, Brooke Hibino led with 17 kills and had seven blocks (two solo) and seven digs. Isabella Umpierre tallied 11 kills and eight digs. Ximena Cordero Barr led all players with 20 digs. Mia Starr had the double-double with 38 assists and 11 digs to go with two kills and two service aces.

HOW IT HAPPENED

In a match that totaled 46 service errors, USC won the service line with six aces to the Aggies' three. The Trojans also had the edge in digs, 68-66, but UC Davis had more kills (50-48), assists (46-42), and blocks (11-9.5). USC managed to outhit the Aggies, .179 to .125.
The Trojans hit .323 (13k, 3e) on 31 attacks to rack a 25-16 win in the opening frame. Faumuina, Ford, and Tvrdy each put up three kills in the effort. Both teams had two blocks apiece, but USC forced the Aggies into enough errors to log a .000 attack rate (7k, 7e) on 32 attempts. Etter led the floor defense with five digs while Faumuina and Wijay had two apiece.
USC pulled out a 26-24 slugfest to go up 2-0. In a set that was tied 20 times, neither team led by anything more than a two-piece before the Women of Troy closed it out on an ace from Wijay. Faumuina and Wijay each had two kills to lead the Trojans who hit .036 over the Aggies' negative .030 hitting.
It took 18 ties and seven lead changes to decide the winner of a 32-30 final in set three, but UC Davis emerged as the victor on .241 hitting (18k, 4e) on 58 attacks. USC had 15 kills (8e) on 50 attempts to hit .140 led by five kills from Tvrdy and four from Faumuina. Service errors plagued both sides of the net, but the teams produced 51 digs with USC in front, 26-25. Wijay had seven, Etter had six, and Faumuina had five to lead the defensive effort.
It took another eight ties and a pair of lead changes—the last of which proved crucial—for the Trojans to close out a 28-26 win in set four to seal the match. Ostovar had four of her kills in the final frame and scored the last two points of the match on crosscourt kills. USC put up three blocks in the fourth to keep the Aggies at .178 hitting (16k, 8e) on 45 swings while hitting .222 itself with 12 kills (4e) on 36 attacks. The Trojans led by as many as four, 14-10, and had a three-point lead at 23-20, but the hard-charging Aggies equalized at 23-all and even had set point at 25-24.

UP NEXT

USC stays home to host Pepperdine (7-3) on Saturday (Sept. 19) at 7 p.m. PT and UC Santa Barbara (4-5) on Sunday (Sept. 20) at 2 p.m. Both matches will be shown live on Big Ten Plus.

MATCH NOTES

USC improves to 3-0 all-time against UC Davis.
The Trojans move to 2-2 in four-set contests this season.
USC goes to 234-65 all-time at Galen Center.

For more information on the USC women's volleyball team and a complete schedule and results, please visit USCTrojans.com/WVB. Fans of the Women of Troy can follow @USCWomensVolley on Facebook, X, TikTok, and Instagram.