Middle School Volleyball

Oak Harbor Middle and North Whidbey Middle school both saw a lot of action last week in volleyball.

In addition to Monday's added NW/OH match, on Tuesday the OHMS team traveled to Mt. Baker, on Wednesday Cascade MS was at NWMS, and On Thursday it was another OHMS/NWMS matchup.

Wednesday's NW/Cascade match was quite exciting. The 7th grade team was up first, and the Cougar girls kept it close for most of the match. There were 5 lead changes and the game was tied 5 other times. Late in the first game, though, with the game tied at 13, Cascade went on a service spree and won the first game 25-19.

In game 2 the 7th graders got an early 4-2 lead, but Cascade crawled back. Again, the game was tied at 13, but this time it was NWMS that got hot from the serving line, earning 5 straight points, and winning the game 25-22.

Now that they were loose, the Cougar 7th graders opened up game 3, dominating Cascade and winning the game 25-19 and the match 2-1.

In 8th grade action, the girls fell behind in game 1, at one point spotting Cascade a 4-point lead, but they fought back to tie the game at 14. NW then gave up 3 straight service aces to Cascade, but rallied and tied it again at 18. A kill followed up by a service ace by NW's Celine Gross put the Cougars up by 3, 21-18. Then, after a service error by Cascade, it was game point for NW, 24-21. Cascade wasn't giving up and tied the game at 24, and was able to get a service ace, then a NW error ended the game with Cascade winning 26-24.

In game 2, the girls sprinted to an early 7-3 lead then built it to 12-6 and later 15-9. Cascade still wasn't ready to give up and held on to win 25-21. A high point in game 2 was the 3 service aces served up by Tiffany Kepner.

Game 3 ended early as time ran out.

Two video clips from the 7th grade match and two from the 8th grade match have been posted, along with clips from the OHMS match against Burlington last week.

Video clips are posted HERE.