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Show A10 • WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2009 Sentinel Guardian of Your Community N Volleyball battle of the Eagles James Hardman STAFF WRITER Two birds of prey battled it out in an intense volleyball match, on Tuesday, Sept. 8,2009 as the American Leadership Academy's Eagles faced the Maple Mountain Golden Eagles. After a long struggle, the Golden Eagles took the match with a 3-2 win over ALA. As the match began, ALA quickly took the lead with an 18-25 win over MMHS, but Maple Mountain rebounded to take a close second game 27-25. The third game, even closer, was tied for half of the game. Neck and neck they flew, with Maple Mountain's Kylee Bendtschneider keeping the score tied with kill after kill in response to ALAs attack.. "We as a team voted Kylee Bendtschneider as the player of the game, she had the most kills, and played really well," said MMHS Coach Amber Hall. Despite Maple Mountain's efforts in the third game, ALA's defense was able to keep the Golden Eagles down, giving the Eagle offense time to win the third game, 8-15. "ALA has a flawless defense," coach Hall said. "They were really good." Behind two games to one, Maple Mountain pulled together as a team and the Golden Eagles came out victorious in the last two games. The fifth game's final score of 15-8 finished the match. "Our team is really young, and these girls have all played at different schools. They still weren't quite used to playing as a team yet," said Coach Hall. "It was a slow match until after the third game, then we really pulled together as a team." Hall praised her team for pulling together so well. She said that if her team hadn't rallied, ALA would have taken.the victory. "You can never complain about a win," she said. "ALA really has a flawless defense, and they were a really good team. It was an especially good game." Keri Huntsman / The Sentinel BALL HANDLING: Spanish Fork's Erin Redd puts the ball over the net for the Lady Dons. Lady Dons lose heartbreaker Bryan Redd STAFF WRITER set, with each team battling to stay within one point of the opposition. The Dons' passing went AWOL and costly errors allowed AF to open a two-point advantage 8-6, forcing a Don time out. The SF coaches and fans watched in exasperation as AF rolled to a 15-9 victory in the fifth and deciding set. American Fork celebrated a hard-fought comeback 3-2 over a talented but incon- The SF volleyball team journeyed to American Fork renewing an old rivalry and with aspirations of defeating one of the top-ranked teams in 5A. The Dons spiker's brought there A-game showing composure and determination. The SF attack was balanced with Remund, Schofield and Redd dominating the net. Erin Redd led the team with 5 kills and Kylie Schofield scored two kills and three "I want this team blocks. Excellent serving prowess by Danee Merrell to discover how provided a 25-21 victory. to compete with American Fork revved and dominate up the serving machine and SF had difficulty passing their opponent." and running an efficient of- Coach Troyer fense. The Dons struggled with a rotation that allowed the Caveman to score nine points in succession. Schofield posted five kills, but the Dons lost set two 2 5 19. sistent Lady Dons team. Spanish Fork refocused "We played well in sets and played a balanced and one and three but the team's well executed attack. The lack of intensity and execuDons relied on big blocks tion with the game on the from the front row and line let this match slip away. scored big points on some I want this team to discover long rallies. SF played one how to compete with and of the best sets to date and dominate their opponent. dominated AF in the third It all starts with practice for a 25-19 victory. and we will go back to the The old saying "what a drawing board to make the difference a set makes" was SF volleyball team stronevident in the forth set. The ger," said Coach Troyer. Lady Dons had a meltdown, The Lady Dons post plain and simple. Leading an 18-4. pre-season re2-1 the Dons imploded, cord. SF will enjoy a twopassing errors, serving mis- week break as the team takes, miscommunication will strengthen chemistry, and non-competiveness al- fine-tune game execulowed the AF Caveman to tion and rev up the Dons' serve and spike their way to volleyball machine for a 25-18 victory in the forth run at a region volleyball set. title. The SF spiker's will The see-saw battle be- open region play on Tuestween SF and AF culminat- day, Sept. 22 as they visit ed in the fifth set. The score cross-town rival Maple flopped back and' forth Mountain at 6:30 p.m. point by point early in the Christian Tfiompson / The Sentinel TEAM LEADER: Kylee Bendtschneider came up big for MMHS, leading the Golden Eagles in kills. ALA loses close match to Wasatch Alexis Richardson STAFF W R I T E R The ALA Eagles played their first region volleyball game Thursday, Sept. 10, at ALA against Wasatch High. The Eagles lost in a three set match, but kept up their energy the whole game. The Eagles were confident as they started the game, but within the first couple minutes Wasatch scored two ace services. Annika Crockett scored ALAs first point in the first few minutes of the game. The Eagles stayed within 2-5 points behind Wasatch the whole first set. In the second set the Eagles picked up the pace as they tried to fill in some of the holes in their defense. They stayed closer to Wasatch, read the ball better and started working better as a team, even though the Wasps came out on top, 25-22. In the third set the Eagles played hard and took the intensity up another notch. They lead Wasatch for the first 15 points. The two teams stayed close in points for most of the set .until Wasatch pulled ahead by four points. The Eagles regained three points and started gaining momentum when Wasatch scored the winning point, ending that set and the match with the Eagles two points behind. Both Coach Carvalho and Coach Moai mentioned that this game was a tough loss for the Eagles, because they were so close the whole time. "This was a tough loss for us because it was such a close game" said Coach Ashley Moai. "A couple plays difference and we could have won." She continued to say that the girls need more experience together as a team to become more familiar with each other and the game. She has confidence they will improve as the season goes on. Christian llwmpson / The Sentinel BLOCKED AT EVERY TURN: ALA middle blockers reject a would-be spike from one of the Wasatch players. |
