VB 2011-09-20 vs Marysville-Getchell

Tuesday night was the first-ever meeting between the new Marysville-Getchell HS and the Oak Harbor Wildcats in volleyball. The MG team does not have a freshman team. Their JV team has one junior, two sophomores and the rest are freshmen.

Because of that, our JV team perhaps thought that the Charger JV team would be easy to beat, especially after the JV girls jumped to a 6-2 lead in game one. At that point, it looked like some complacency set in and quicker than it seemed, the Chargers were up 20-12. Not on good volleyball, but on unforced errors by the Wildcats. MG went on to win that first game 25-18. Our JV girls learned from that game, and in game 2 sprinted to a 10-1 lead on their way to a 25-12 game 2 victory. Game 3 was close early, until, with the Wildcats leading 12-7, Deanna Rueben served up 10 straight points, 8 of them service aces, leading the 'Cats to a 25-8 game 3 win and a 2-1 match win.

Game 1 of the varsity game was back and forth early, then OH opened a 10-6 lead and increased it to take game 1 25-10. Game 2 started with the Chargers up 4-0, then OH got back on track and took back the lead 7-6 then scored 4 straight to end game 2 25-17. In game 3 Oak Harbor jumped out to a 11-2 lead and never looked back, winning 25-13 and taking the match 3-0.

The VB girls are at Glacier Peak Thursday then return home Tuesday, Sept 27th to face the Everett Seagulls.

85 photos are posted HERE.

Video highlight clips are HERE.