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 The
St. Patrick's Fight Irish improved to 5-3 on the
year with a 3-0 win over the St. Clair Colts in
junior girls LSSAA volleyball action Tuesday
afternoon.
St. Clair
started strong as Chelsea Price served an ace to
start the game, and Erin Gabriel hit a kill to put
the Colts up 2-0. The lead would be extended to 6-3
before the Irish tied things at 6-6. Paige Tucker
and Olvia Prins served up aces for the Irish to give
them the lead in the match. But the lead would swing
back and forth as the two teams would trade points
and keep the game tied till 18-18. The Irish would
take a two point lead 22-20, but two misses would
bring it back even at 22-22. But the Irish would
hold out and win th e
set 25-22, as they took the next three points for
the first set victory.
In the
second set, the Colts had issues keeping the ball in
play and getting it over the net which helped to
establish a early lead for the Irish. 7-1. Two Irish
misses and a block at the net by St. Clair's Ashley
Bissom made it 7-4, but the Colts would give the two
points back on misses of their own. The Irish would
build an 8 point lead on the Colts at 15-7, but the
Colts would start to close to gap. Bissom would hit
a tip over and Mickayla Westendore had two aces as
the Colts draw the game to a tie at 15-15. The Irish
would begin to make mistakes, hitting the ball into
the net and wide, as the Colts go on a 12-1 run, and
go from eight points down to two ahead. But the
Irish would respond as Charlotte Stoesser served for
three straight point s
to take the lead back 21-20. Stoesser then hits two
more aces as she serves out the set with seven
straight points to give the Irish the set victory
25-20.
In the
final set, The Irish again would open a lead 6-2,
but the Colts would cut into it and get it back to
9-9. They would trade points back and forth till
12-12 when the Irish would take two points and the
lead 14-12. Claire Moran had two aces and a hard
serve that couldn't be returned to make it 18-13,
while Roxanne Hendrycks had two aces of her own to
make it 21-14. With some Colt errors, the Irish
would go onto win the final third set 25-17.
The teams
do not return back to action till February.
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