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Show r nifty County Progress November 7, 1984 7 A Emotional loss leaves Emery girls stunned Emery .ofgrten, Black, and Vickie each had opportunities to nerve the winning point, but Delta played an excellent net game to atop the LARRY W. DAVIS Dy Progress editor The end brought an explosion of emotion. On one aide of the net, a mob hunt hed around glrU in white and red, and each member of the Joyous group was Jumping, waving arms, and screaming in delight. They could scarcely keep still. The girls In black and gold, those on the other side of the net, could scarcely move. Tears rolled through eyelids clamped shut, and hugs slowly went from one person to another. Behind, Iidy Spartans. Finally, Jamie Wood of Delta ended the drought as she got t o points off a Rabbit spike and a misplaced Emery dink to cut the acore to After getting the aerve back, an opportunity to get the aingle point needed again failed when Shennana serve was short. However, an awesome spike by Riley again brought the ball to the Emery and service schoolmates, line, but the serve by family, friends sat still, looking on in Jones went into the net. One disbelief. The end had come. more opportunity was lost Just For Emery, the state after that when a spike by lAicero, which followed a Riley championship volleyball match serve, also went Into the net. against Delta had gone from After all those lost opbad, to better, to good, to excellent. Then all was shattered portunities, Delta decided it was Watching her girls prepare for the championship match, for the Spartans when time to take advantage of the coach Nancy Reed chats with principal Bob Swinburne. situation. Wendy Stanworth got Delta came from a 8 deficit In two serthe third and decisive match to perfect match with Delta, the Region 10 Delta as the score went to while claiming the 2A win ves, one off the fist of Sherman, and Emery then took the lead on the other off Lucero, for two state championship. champions who had beaten The next Perhaps the dramatic impact aces to tie the match at 4 and Grand and Richfield in easy a dink by Black, send it into a two serves were also returned of the loss was not only due to tie matches to advance. Coach Reed said that Black into the net, and the winning Emery's six point lead while breaker. in well Lucero the and Snow to a the made but get played point came when Rileys serve Emery's failing great game point, save on the next serve, but the Dixie match as Black accounted was hit straight up, off the the loss was even more difficult for eight points in the first game ceiling, and untouched to the ball later went into the net to to swallow since the girls had win. battled back after being blown give the Rabbits their first lead and Lucero five in the second. floor for the The coach said that it was the of the match at Coach Reed said that while out 15--3 in the first game to win The next 1 and then serve was never returned by the the second play of Riley in the Emery got out of its usual style Cedar City match which was of play in the final match carried that momentum into the Lady Spartans as the match instumental in the win. In fact, against Delta, there were two third match to virtually went to the girls from Delta, coach Reed praised the overall dominate until reaching game questionable calls by officials of went against Emery the tournament which contest the entered as play junior. Emery point. It was Riley who lifted Emery while it sat on game point. the number one team from Ive thought a lot about it, to a win in the second game Both calls went against us coach Nancy Reed said MonRegion 9 and got wins over Dixie 2 when when 2 Delta she to had and then and the began they could have gone against day, following Thursday behind team with either to her service down come a from beat at loss Union way, the coach said. game School, High night 15-Her first two serves were hit Both were line calls. and Cedar City the site of the eight-teainto the net and out of bounds by The coach said that the team tournament, and I think the That set up the championship a in found themselves girls situation which took them out of their usual style of play. It was like they were thinking, We cant be here, about to win. Please dont serve it to me. She went on to say, We began to play too conservative and got away from our game plan in the final match. We werent using our style of bump, set, spike like we should have. We didnt think or play like winners in the final 14-1- 14-- back-to-bac- 11-1- 1, 14-1- 12-1- 1. two-poi- 15-1- 1 15-1- 4. 15-1- 16-1-4. 15-1- 11-- 9. 5, m J . Roberta Black gets some comfort from a friend after u.... losing to Delta in the final match. k 15-1-4 15-1- . 15-1- 1. 8, has carried the slogan Winners Never Quit with them throughout the season, and she said that is what Emery displayed at the tournament. She praised the efforts of the players on the floor, on the bench, and even expressed her thanks for those who traveled to the tournament just to cheer the team on. We had excellent support, and we really appreciated it, she said. looking back on the tournament, coach Reed expressed her feeling that Emery had the best team, saying that Delta relied primarily on two outstanding players. However, she praised the play of Delta, saying they didnt all-arou- make mistakes, and Emery had to work for every point it got. This is the second time coach Reed and her volleyball team have finished second at state. The first came in 1979 and like this year was a very close loss in three games. Her team finished third a year ago. For Delta, this is the second time in three years the Rabbits have won the championship. I.ast year the team was second. Blackpowder Guns, Custom Leathers Chaps, Pants and Shirts SILVER MOOSE TRADERS 227 Enl Main match. Going into that final match, Emery took a 0 lead as Roberta Black served two aces, but Delta battled back to keep the match close, tying it at Then Sheri and Lofgreen came in to serve, and the Lady Spartans began to assert themselves. Her first serve was returned into the net for a point while the second brought another point on a block at the net by Michelle Riley. A spike by Cheryl Sherman lifted Emery to an 5 lead and that went to 5 when another Lofgreen serve was returned 2-- 2-- 2, 4-- 3-- 3, 5-- 5. 4, 8-- 9-- out of bounds. A block by Delta followed, but it too went out of bounds, and by the time Lofgreen was finished, Emery was on top 10-Emery added two more points off serves by Sherman and Diana Jones, but Andrea Henrie of Delta then kept her team in the match with three points to cut the margin to Michelle Riley took Emery to game point when she served for two points. The first came on a spike by Stacy Snow while the second came on a long return by Delta. The Rabbits then called a time out trailing 14--8 and came back with LeAnn Warnick at the service stripe. 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