Middle School Volleyball 11-10-09

The middle school volleyball season kicked off with both Oak Harbor and North Whidbey Middle Schools in action. The 7th grade team plays for 60 minutes, getting in at least 3 games and usually 4. 8th grade girls play for an hour and 15 minutes, usually good for 4 games as well.

North Whidbey traveled to LaVenture MS in Mt. Vernon. There, the 7th grade girls lost the first game, won the 2nd, but fell in the 3rd. The 8th grade team won 2 games to 1, and according to Coach Brockett "The girls played great!". She was really happy with their performance.

The OHMS Panthers were at home against Burlington.

The 7th grade team won game easily behind some great serving, 25-9, but after that Burlington got their serving in gear and won the next two game 25-6, 25-7. Coach Pullen saw some good things from the girls but also saw some things they need to work on in practice.

Before the 8th grade game some of the girls looked over at Burlington and commented in a worried way about how good they looked. Coach Molitor brought the girls together and addressed that feeling, and whatever she said worked, as the 8th grade team won the match 2-1. The first game was very close, but the Panthers pulled out a 26-24 win. Game 2 was all Panthers as they won 25-15. Game 3 went to the Tigers 15-25. Since there was still time left, they played a 4th game, which OHMS won 25-21.


59 photos, including team photos, have been posted HERE.

There are 74 photos of the 8th grade match here.