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By N. Waddell
The Lady Lobos volleyball team took the court for two matches last week coming away with a thriller at Miami High School and swept the Bearcats in a home contest.
The Lady Vandals came out strong in the first set talking, moving and not allowing the Lady Lobos to land their serves winning 17 to 25. The Lady Lobos would have no part of the Vandal hype coming back strong to take the second set 25 to 15. Melinda Marinez carried the Lady Lobos in the third set with her serving hitting for ten service points in the Lobos third set win 25 to 21.
The Lady Vandals would not go down easy coming back strong with their spiking to take the fourth set and tie the match at two sets apiece to set up an exciting fifth set for the match win. The fifth set started out like neither team wanted to win as both teams kept breaking each other’s serve.
With the score tied at 12, the Vandals were on the verge of victory taking a 13 to 14 lead when Hayden finally broke their serve to tie the score at 14 to 14. Kyana Garcia went to the service line and after some long volleys finally got the 16th point to win the set and the match three sets to two.
The Lobo JV team also came out of Miami with a win defeating the Lady Vandal JV in three sets. After dropping the first set in a hard played 22 to 25 set, the Lobo JV came back strong taking the second set 25 to 19 and took the match with a dominating performance in the third set to win 15 to 9.
The Lady Lobos were on home court on Thursday September 20hosting their rivals, the Lady Bearcats.
The Lady Lobos dominated for the first part of the first set taking a 15 to 8 lead after the first round of serving and held back a comeback attempt by the Bearcats to take the first set 25 to 21.
The second set was all Lady Lobos as they dominated the court not allowing the Bearcats to land their serves winning with a lopsided 25 to 12 score.
The third and final set again was domination by the Lobos not allowing the Bearcats to land their serves and defended well not allowing the Bearcat spikes to hit taking the third set and the match 25 to 19.
In their two matches, the Lady Lobos did not lose a set defeating the Lady Bearcats in six sets. The two wins gave the Lady Lobos a five win against two losses record for the season.
The Lady Lobo JV team also had a sweep of their match with the Bearcat JV winning the first set with a score of 25 to 22 and put the Bearcat JV team away with a 25 to 14 win in the second set to get their record to seven wins against one loss for the season.
The Lady Lobos will be busy this week traveling to Mesa Prep on Mon. boarding the bus again on Tues. for a trip to Ft. Thomas and will return to home court on Thurs. Sept. 27 taking on the tough Miami Lady Vandal volleyball team.
The Mesa Prep and Miami matches have a 5:00 p.m. start for the JV contest followed by the varsity match at 6:00 p.m. The match at Ft. Thomas will have a 4:00 p.m. start for the JV match with the varsity scheduled for 5:00 p.m.
The Lady Lobos will be on the road again on Sat. Sept. 29 traveling to Pima High School to play in the Lady Roughrider Volleyball Invitational Tournament.
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