Cal State LA women’s volleyball extended its winning streak to four games, defeating the Cal State East Bay Pioneers 3-1 on Saturday at the University Gym.

With the win, Cal State LA (8-3, 4-0 CCAA) remains undefeated through the first two weekends of conference play.

The Golden Eagles opened the match playing efficiently, but as the team entered the third set, old habits from their previous game began to resurface—giving away points through errors and missed swings from deep.

Cal State LA head coach Juan Figueroa said “Our efficiency was very good at the beginning of the game, and then we got back to our old habits, giving them (opponents) points. That’s why we lost game 3, we need to try to minimize those errors that we’re making,”

Figueroa said his team may just be a team that receives a high number of high-error points, but emphasized the importance of finding ways to win.

That shift from the first two sets into the third ultimately cost the Golden Eagles, as they dropped the set 23-25.

“Anytime we’re making a bunch of errors it’s because we’re missing it deep,” Outside hitter Ayjiah Landers said. “We need to focus on the contact of the ball and just swinging high in corners.”

The Golden Eagles also entered the match prepared to challenge East Bay’s defense.

“East Bay is a really good team, they have really good defense so we knew that coming in. Our goal was to just keep swinging, swing high and eventually they won’t dig it,” Landers said.

Zuhal Cetin led the way with a match-high 16 kills and 15 digs, leading three Golden Eagles in double figures. Landers followed with 15 kills, while Samarah Dacloud chipped in 14 kills and a match-high 21 digs.

Libero Jameson Sanders also reached a career milestone, recording her 1,000th dig becoming the 13th player in Cal State LA history to reach this milestone.

Cal State East Bay (5-7, 2-2 CCAA) showed strong defensive effort, but it was not enough to slow the Golden Eagles. Fane Paua had 10 kills for the Pioneers, while Barakat Adekola added nine kills and 10 digs.

Looking ahead to Thursday’s matchup against Cal State San Marcos, Figueroa said the team’s focus will be on sharpening execution and cutting down errors.

“Just try to have some range when we hit the ball and stop hitting the ball out so much,” Figueroa said.