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Show Volleyball team has ups, downs The Pleasan t Grove High School girl's volleyball teams had their ups and downs this past week, but the great moments were really fun to watch. The sophomore team played Payson on Tuesday, and fell to them in three matches, 2-15, 1-15 and 11-15. In their first game, Payson outdistanced out-distanced the Lady Vikes quickly and they never caught up. In the second game, however, P.G. saw Lori Veenker serve up 8 points and Shannon West with 5 points. In the third match, the girls, including Shani Anderson with some great saves, tried hard, but lost in a close game, 11 to 15. The J.Vs match against Payson was quick and deadly . Payson came ready to win, and beat P.G. in two games, 9-15 and 6-15, in spite of Valynn Storey's great serving in both games. In their Thursday match against Timpview, however P.G. showed great promise. Their scores in that match was 13-15, 15-7 15-7 and 15-8. J.V. player Andrea Lamoreaux played match, hitting very well for the team. Valynn Storey served 6 points in the first game, Amy Lamoreaux and Andrea Lamoreaux Lam-oreaux served 4 points each in the second game, and Spring Smith served 6 points. As the varsity played the last two games in the first round of the season in Region 8 competition, they battled past a fired up Payson squad for a victory on Tuesday night. Then, on Thursday, they were over powered by the T-Birds from Timpview. Against the Payson Lions, the Vikes played three hard-fought games, with the Lions winning game one, 12-15. In the second game the Vikings took the lead, largely due to serving of Lori Curtis, Cur-tis, who scored nine points for P.G. Jenny Wells lead the Vikings in game three with 8 points. Tracie Williamson had a great game with 9 blocks and 13 kills for P.G., while Vikki Allred added 7 kills. Timpview, sporting a 6-1 record for the season, outscored the Lady Vikes in the first two games. The T-Birds T-Birds jumped to a 7-1 lead in game one, but Vikki Allred served four straight points to help the Vikings close the score, 7-5. Then, Lori Curtis set to Tracie Williamson to help tie the game, 7-7. 7-7. The contest was tied again at 8 and 9, before Kristal McGlowthlin from Timpview served several points in a row to put the game out of reach for the Vikes. The T-Birds took command early in the second game with a 10-1 10-1 lead. Allred and Curtis got P.G. moving, as the Vikinggs narrowed the gap, but in spite of several excellent saves, and some sparkling spar-kling individual efforts, the Vikes were unable to get the points. Williamson Wil-liamson led the team with 8 kills and two great blocks. The Vikings will host unbeaten Spanish Fork on Thursday, Oct. 6. The Sophomores play at 4 p.m., 5 p.m. for the J.V., and 6:15 p.m. for the Varsity. The Viking Booster Club, who strive to increase attendance to all of the athletic events of the school, gave free movie tickets to the first four booster card holders that attended at-tended the Timpview game, which was designated as the Booster Club Game. |
