JV Girls Volleyball

Eagle JV edges Knights 2-1

By David Boldt

The Christian Learning girls junior varsity girls volleyball team let Cambridge come back to take the opening set, but then buckled down to take the next two sets to secure the victory Thursday in the International gym.

All three games were decided by identical three-point margins. Only the name of the winning team changed.

Christian Learning led for most of the first set, and held a seemingly commanding five-point lead at 21-16.

 However, at that point the Eagles seemed to get a mild case of the yips and the Knights were able to take advantage of some Eagle miscues and some fine plays of their own to come from behind and take the set 25-22.

The two teams – both plagued by early season errors – fought hammer-and-tongs in the second set, and the score was knotted at 21-21 before the Eagles put on a late surge to win and even the match at one set apiece. The score was again 25-22.

In the third set it was Cambridge’s turn to take the lead and then suffer a loss of focus. They took leads of 6-3 and 8-5, but the Eagles came back to tie the score at 8-8. The teams played evenly to 12-12, but then the Eagles took the last three points in a row to win 15-12.

The Eagles benefitted from strong play at the net by Emily Ordoñez and Emily Mercado. Shakine Miranda, a sixth-grader playing her first year, showed great promise, as did several other young Eagle players.

Denise Narvallo was outstanding for Cambridge which also got strong service from Adriana Canedo.  Another change for Cambridge was that whereas it has had trouble fielding a JV girls volleyball team in past years, this time they had a full bench.

Griffinettes defeat Jaguars in straight sets 

By: Nicolas Handal
Cooperative School

     The International JV girl’s junior varsity volleyball team defeated the Jaguar two sets to none on a Thursday afternoon at Cooperative gym, with lots of spectators on hand for both sides.

      The game was full of tension at the start. There were outstanding serves for each team especially from Ciara Harriague from the Griffins. The Jaguars fell behind 13-8 in the early going, but came back to tie the game at 18-18.

     At this point Manuela Gonzalez was serving for the International and she made five straight points with her serve to make it 23-18, and seemingly end the Jaguar hopes.  But the Jaguars rallied, stopped making mistakes, and evened the score at 23-23.

      But at that point the Griffins took the last two points to win the set narrowly 25-23.

     The second set started with Harriague serving again. She smashed the ball over the net, and if it came back at all it was very slow and with no power. The Jaguars seemed to lose faith as they fell behind 16-7, and began making unforced errors. The Griffins took advantage of that, and won the set 25-10.

      Jaguar captain Naira Milena Rodriguez said; “There were many odd mistakes and a bad decision and that cost us. We did really well to fight back, but unfortunately we couldn't win the game, but we will work hard for the cup.”