By Jesse Mann
The International JV boys decisively defeated the Jaguars today with a brilliant display of teamwork that ultimately earned them a first-place trophy. The Jaguars were quickly overwhelmed in two sets, victims of an impressive Griffin
The second set got off to a slow start as both teams methodically traded points until Griffin Juan Carlos Narvaez stepped up to the back line to serve for the Griffins. The result was a incredible ten point serving explosion that put the Griffins ahead 14-4. This ten point gap spelled doom for the Jaguars, who managed to put only ten more points on the board before the Griffins finished them off 25-14. To celebrate their wins in both boys and girls JV volleyball, the Griffins proceeded to empty the contents of the team's contents onto their talented coach.
Knights Squeeze Past Eagles for 3rd Place
By Larissa M. Dagnoni
The Cambridge boys junior varsity defeated Christian Learning Tuesday afternoon at International, winning the first set 25-23 and the second 25-15. Cambridge thus gets bragging rights to third place, The Eagles, despite having played their best game of the year, were consigned to fourth.
The game started with the Eagles crowd cheering very loudly, but Cambridge didn’t let the cacophony in the stands distract them, and they scored the five first points in the game. Eagle players were not playing badly; it just seemed that they couldn’t handle the attacks from the Knights.
Both teams were backing up teammates, and everyone was playing with a great attitude. Cambridge kept scoring through the first set, and they had the lead most of the time, but suddenly the Eagles put on a closing surge, and the score of the game was 23-22.
The Eagle team had stepped their game up, and with the attacks of Claudio Sandoval, they surely scared and made the Cambridge defense more worried. Cambridge just needed two points to close the first set, but the Eagles were not giving it away easily.
It seemed that the Eagle team was going to win, because suddenly the Knights defense started to miss, and attacks from the other side started to come on strong. But the Knights didn’t give up easily either and the first set finally ended 25-23 for Cambridge.
The second set started with even more tension than the first one. On one side was the Christian Learning team that wanted a chance to tie the match up and go to a third set, and on the other side was the Cambridge team that wanted to win the set, take the match, and go home.
Cambridge started the game by scoring the first point, but right after the Eagle team got a point. It seemed that the Christian Learning team didn’t let the first set score get to them, because they were attacking the ball without restraint, and getting each and every point they could.
Great defense from Eagle Jadon Kabernick helped the Eagle cause, and even after the Knights were winning 16-11 it was really noticeable that the Eagles were working doubly hard during this set.
Teamwork from Knights Santiago Hurtado and Daniel Kirigin helped the score take off in the Knights favor 24-15. The last point was very hard to get for the Knights but finally after a long rally Alvaro Ueno set up Carlos Rea to score the winning point, and the set ended 25-15.
