8/7/2019 Volleyball vs. Springtown Part I
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VOLLEYBALL
Aledo finishes varsity season undefeated in district play
DOMINIC GENETTI/THE COMMUNITY NEWS
The Aledo Lady Cats varsity volleyball team went undefeated in district play for the 2010 season with a 14-0 record.
Aledo is equipped with four seniors, five juniors and three sophomores. Playoffs begin with the bi-district round Nov.
2 against Eastern Hills High School of Fort Worth.
Q Ladycats closedistrict with win overSpringtown
By Dominic GenettiThe Community News
It only took three matches tocomplete the final regular seasongame for the Aledo Ladycats vol-leyball team Tuesday night, but the victory did not come easy as theLadycats faced their Parker County rivals to the north, the SpringtownLady Porcupines.
For seniors Jordan Jacobs, TaylorBrown, Lindsey Baird and ChristaDaniel, it was their final appearance
in uniform at Aledo High School.The four departing players along with the rest of the varsity squad were honored with their parents before the game and Head CoachKathy Goings was recognized forachieving her 400th career win.
But once the flowers were hand-ed out and credit was given wherecredit was due, it was time for thestate-ranked Ladycats to get downto business.
Game 1: Springtown 24,Aledo 26
All it took was a 4.6-second volley for the Ladycats to get on the boardand take a 1-0 lead, but despiteSpringtown’s scrambled defenseand slow start, that didn’t stop theLady Porcupines from growing intoa competitive force that challenged Aledo on their home court.
“They’re a good team,” Goingssaid. “You don’t want to give a team
like Springtown any power.”Springtown eventually evened
out the score at 10 and later tooka three-point lead over Aledo. TheLadycats began to slow down andmake small mistakes that allowedthe Lady Porcupines to pull ahead.
“Several of those runs were justerrors, our errors, and I knew if wecorrected those things we could beat
them,” Goings said.
With a 14-10 score, Aledo heldSpringtown back thanks to the killsof sophomore Briana Sharratt andBaird and the blocks by Dainel andJacobs. Sharratt and Baird finished
the night with a combined 18 kills.Daniel capped off the evening withthree blocks while Jacobs finished with two.
Aledo would eventually come back to tie the match at 15 and didnot look back as they regained thelead. But Springtown would not letup as they too came back to tiethe match three times again. The
Lady Porcupines tied Aledo with 21points, 23 points and 24 points asthe match’s intensity began to rise.
Sophomore Mallory Powell became the key factor for Aledo,producing a number of assists thatpushed the Lady Cats ahead.
“I think we got off to a slow startand I think we came back into it,”Powell said. “We felt like we neededto focus and we got that intensity upand I think we pushed harder.”
The sophomore setter finishedthe night with a total of 34 assists.
Aledo pulled ahead after the 24-point tie and won the match 26-24.
Game 2: Springtown 15,Aledo 25
Call it the slowest match and themost competitive.
Springtown came out as an offen-sive powerhouse gaining four points
on Aledo. The Lady Porcupines tiedthe Lady Cats at three and held thelead until Aledo came back to tie thematch at seven.
After a 7.9-second volley gavethe Lady Cats the go-ahead and an8-7 lead, Aledo would gain 12 morepoints before Springtown achieveddouble digits. Digs from Brown andDaniel helped the Lady Cats on their
road to a game two win as well askills from Jacobs.
Brown totaled 17 digs on the nightand Daniel gathered 22. Jacobs fin-ished the night with six kills.
“We controlled the match ingame two,” Goings said. “We like todo the middle attack. That’s one of our favorites, but our girls are very quick on their arm swings, so they can beat a lot of blocks if we bringthe ball down, sometimes we’ll movea little faster.”
Springtown would only gather15 points in the match before Aledoearned their 25th to seal the deal.
“That’s about as physical, besidesslamming a ball down against some-
body, as it gets,” Goings said. “I want(the girls) to be aggressive, but notunclassy.”
Game 3: Springtown 23,Aledo 25
Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock saidit best when he described suspenseas the knowledge of a bomb under atable, but being unaware of when it
will go off. The third installment of Aledo’s evening facing Springtown wasnothing short of any Hitchcock motionpicture; a suspenseful showing.
The Lady Porcupines kept theLady Cats at bay by holding the leada majority of the match.
Aledo came close to taking anearly lead when they evened thescore at seven on an 8.3-second vol-ley, but Springtown pulled aheadand would go on to gain one totwo additional points when the Lady Cats gained ground and were only down by one.
Small aims and light taps gaveSpringtown an edge and the slow-ing Lady Cats forced Goings to calla timeout.
“We just had to regroup and telleach other that we can do this and just get it together,” Powell said. “I just think we were pressured whenthey would just roll it over.”
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