Portland Pilots (1-3, 0-0 WCC)
at Oregon and Northwest Invitational
 
Oregon Ducks (3-1, 0-0 PAC-12)
Day: Tuesday
Date: Mar. 8, 2022
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Place: Eugene, Ore.
Last: POR 1, @UO 4 (4.21.21)
 
Boise State Broncos (3-6, 0-0 MW)
Day: Friday
Date: Mar. 11, 2022
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Place: Salem, Ore.
Facility: Corban Beach Volleyball Courts
Last: POR 1, BSU 4 (3.9.19)
 
Bushnell Beacons (0-2, 0-0 CAL PAC)
Day: Friday/Saturday
Date: Mar. 11-12, 2022
Time: 12:30 p.m./1:00 p.m.
Place: Salem, Ore.
Facility: Corban Beach Volleyball Courts
 
Corban Warriors (3-1, 0-0 CAL PAC)
Day: Saturday
Date: Mar. 12, 2022
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Place: Salem, Ore.
Facility: Corban Beach Volleyball Courts
Last: POR 4, @CU 1 (3.3.22)
 
THIS WEEK
• The Pilots are set for a duals match at Oregon on Tuesday, March 8, and the Northwest Invitational in Salem on Friday and Saturday, March 11-12, where they will face Boise State, Bushnell, and Corban.
• Portland has two contests coming up on Friday, battling the Broncos at 10:30 a.m. before a matchup with Bushnell at 12:30 p.m.
• The Pilots will continue tournament play on Saturday, taking on the Corban Warriors for the third time this season at 11:30 a.m. ahead of another match with Bushnell at 1 p.m.
• Live stats and live video will not be available for any of the matches.
 
LAST WEEK
• The Pilots split a pair of duals matches with the NAIA's eighth-ranked Corban Warriors this past Thursday, defeating the hosts 4-1 after the Warriors came out on top by the same margin in game one.
• The Portland 2s of Noelani Helm and Sophie Lee claimed the team's sole win in the day's first match with set scores of 21-13 and 21-12.
• Helm and Charity Bradley started off game two with a sweep against the Warriors' duo of Nicole Bantilan and Maya Blake, securing the match with set scores of 21-15 and 21-16.
• Pilots pairs Grace Zilbert and Sarah Strong at the 1s, Sophie Lee and Taylor Helle at the 3s, and Milenia Sniffen and Kendall Nolan at the 5s all dug out 2-1 wins against their Corban counterparts on the way to the team's first victory of the year.
 
THIS SEASON
• (RV) Washington outlasted Portland 5-0 and 4-1 in both programs' season-opening matches in Tacoma on February 26.
• The Pilots 3s of Charity Bradley and Taylor Helle claimed a sweep against a pair of Huskies in the second game of the doubleheader with set scores of 21-17 and 21-6.
 
ABOUT THE PILOTS
• Megan Burton steps into her first year as the head coach of the Pilots beach volleyball program, with Dylan Hamilton also returning for the 2022 season.
• The Pilots return six from last year's roster in Bugarin, Harris, Helm, Lee, Nolan, and Zilbert, with Sarah Strong also coming back to compete in her final season with the team.
• The beach volleyball program welcomes a class of three to the squad this spring in freshmen Taylor Helle, Mileina Sniffen and Annika Stammberger.
• Portland added two transfers to the program at the most recent semester break: freshman Lia Hawken out of Dayton, and graduate student Talyn Jackson from Virginia Tech.
• Also joining the beach team from the Pilots' 2021 indoor squad are freshmen Keilani Mumolo and Emma Swett, and graduate Charity Bradley.
• The Pilots graduated three WCC All-Academic honorees at the end of last season, including the team's most dominant duo of Shayla Hoeft and Alycia Wodke, and Kellie Hughes.
 
LAST SEASON
• Portland finished the year 1-9 in duals competition, defeating Corban 3-2 in Salem on April 13th, 2021. The Pilots' pairs of Hoeft/Wodke, Harris/Helm, and Hughes/Nolan each collected wins on the day.
• The team of Harris/Zilbert registered a sweep against WCC foe San Francisco with set scores of 21-16 and 21-18 back on April 30th, 2021.
• The Pilots faced tough Pac-12 opponents in Oregon and Washington, and saw matchups with 15th-ranked Hawai'i and 13th-ranked Pepperdine before the end of the year.
 
ABOUT THE OPPONENTS
• The Ducks are off to a 3-1 start on the year, registering 5-0 dubs against Irvine Valley College (DH), and The Master's University, and falling to CSUN.
• Oregon's 1s of Reagan Hope and Brooke Nuneviller remain undefeated in duals competition.
• Boise State is 3-6 in 2022, having collected wins against Arizona State, Ottawa (Ariz.), and Arizona Christian.
• The Broncos most recently went 0-4 at the Cactus Classic in Tucson, being overcome by ninth-ranked Hawai'i, 13th-ranked Arizona, Santa Clara, and Arizona State.
• Corban enters the weekend 3-1 overall after the Pilots handed them their first loss this past Thursday.
• The Warriors landed at No. 8 in the second NAIA Beach Volleyball Coaches'  Top-10 Poll of 2022.
• Bushnell is 0-2 to begin the program's inaugural season, suffering 0-5 and 1-4 defeats to Corban back on February 25.