Co-operative wins 25-16, 25-14
Knights pose no problem for Jaguars
From coaches' reports
A rapidly improving Co-operative boys varsity volleyball team easily defeated an inconsistent Cambridge team that, in order to field a team, had to start a fifth-grader who had played the entire junior varsity game previously.
The Jaguars won in straight sets, taking the first set 25-16, and the second 25-14.
Bad serves by Cambridge allowed Co-operative to get a lead in both sets. At that point the games became, in effect, training sessions for the Jaguars during which they were free to practice spike blocking and other advanced techniques. As the Jaguars perfected the techniques their winning margin grew, allowing the players to operate with increasing confidence.
The Knights did give Co-operative a work-out at times. Cambridge's setting techniques sometimes seemed better than Co-operative's, and the Knights could hold their own for brtief stretches characterized by long rallies that were well-played by both sides.
However, thse periods of parity would be brought to an end by a sloppy Cambridge serve. The level of play in the league has reached the point where a bad serve is equivalent to giving the opposition at least two points -- the point lost on the bad serve and at least one subsequent point resulting from the opposition's service.
