Volleyball 2010-09-21 Arlington

It was "Dig for the Cure" night last Tuesday as the Wildcat Volleyball team hosted the Arlington Eagles in their 2nd home match of the year. Both teams wore pink T-shirts instead of their usual team jerseys in support of breast cancer.

In the dome, the Freshmen lost a close 25-27 set then demolished the Eagles 25-8 to tie the match before falling 20-25 in the 3rd.

At the same time, the JV team was having problems in the main gym. They found themselves down 4-11 early in the first set before a time out called by coach Rick Swankie settled them down. The girls chipped away at the Eagle lead until Amanda Pavey dug the ball across the net for a point and a tie set at 19. Late in the set the Eagles were looking at set point, 24-23, but a service error tied it back up. Taylor Nienhuis tapped her set across the net to set up set point for the 'Cats, but an OH service error tied it back up at 25. An Eagle hitting error gave the advantage to Oak Harbor and Hannah Salmons put the set away with a big kill.

The 2nd set went back and forth early with Oak Harbor on the short end of the score most of the time. That was until three straight service aces by Pavey put the Wildcats up 13-11. The set was still close until late, when Lizzy Chase had two service aces of her own to finish the set 25-22 in the Wildcat's favor, and winning the match 2-0.

In the 3rd, non-counting set, Arlington was able to pull out a 25-22 win.

The varsity squad came out a little sluggish to start their math, but with the set tied at 21, Oak Harbor reeled off 4 straight points, ending with a pair of Kelsey Terrazas-Cooley service aces to win 25-21.

In the 2nd set, the varsity team got hot early. Behind kills by Amanda Blau and Katelyn Bristow, the Wildcats zoomed ahead 12-4. Arlington didn't give up but was never in this set as the Wildcats finished it off with a kill by Blau to win 25-11.

The 3rd set went to the Eagles as OH was not able to generate much offense. Terrazas-Cooley had a pair of aces and a kill, Janessa Ramos had a pair of kills and Kristine Bouchard added a single kill, but that was about it for earned points in the set. Final score 25-17 for Arlington.

It was more back-and-forth action early in the 4th set, with the score tied at 7. A Bristow kill and two Roshel Muzzall service aces put the Wildcats ahead for good 10-7. Oak Harbor commanded the remainder of the match. Christina Alexander came off the bench to earn 3 of the final 5 OH points with service aces while Ramos smacked down a nice Jordan Faralan set to give OH a 25-15 lead and a 3-1 match win.

151 photos from the night are posted HERE.

Video highlights are posted HERE.