The girls traveled to someplace in the middle of Indiana today to play what originally was to be a tournament, but turned out to be a tri-match. The first opponent was the Goshen Blue Blazers, a team that we may play three or four times this season, depending on what happens in a couple of tournaments. As I mentioned in my last post, Goshen took a game from us in the ICST semi-final last year, the only set we lost to a non-IHSAA school all year, including NACA. The team has scrimmaged Goshen last week, and Coach Carr thought that Goshen was not as good as they usually are. Goshen and the host school, Argos. Argos, as we all know, was Odysseus' dog and was also the name of Cerberus' brother - Cerberus, of course, being the three-headed dog that guarded the Underworld. What this has to do with volleyball, I'm not sure.
Anyway, back to the match.
Goshen looked much better that than they had in the scrimmage, according to Coach Carr. And the our game with them proved it. After it went to 2-0 Calumet on a Faith kill, things started going a little sideways. Goshen ran off three straight to go ahead. It went back and forth from there, with both teams making mistakes and both teams making some good plays. CCS went up 10-7, then made a series of consecutive errors. Hitting errors, net violations, balls dropping. Finally Taylor got a kill, but Calumet was still down 13-11. A couple of Goshen errors and an Ally kill later, and CCS regained the lead. Behind a Faith kill and a Holly ace Calumet went up three again, and they held it there. Finally a Taylor kill gave the girls a 25-22 win.
Game two saw the girls go out to a 6-1 lead. In that run there was nice kill by Holly and a block by Lauren and Mandi. Then the errors came right back and it was 6-5. It was then Goshen's turn to make some errors and the lead went up to six at 13-7. Calumet didn't let them get any closer than three, and Faith closed out the match and the 25-19 game win with a kill.
The less said about the match against Argo, the better. The only thing worth mentioning, and the reason that both games weren't single-digit points was the first appearance of the season of the dreaded LGFS, which occurred in the first game. For the uninitiated, LGFS stands for "late-game flat spot", a trademark of Calumet over the last few seasons. CCS was up 21-7 when it struck. Six Dragon points later CCS finally broke the streak. (Yes, they are the Argos Dragons.) All but one of the six points were from our errors, including an out-of-rotation. CCS then woke up and put the Dragons away, 25-13. Game two was more or less serving practice with Calumet scoring at least eight aces, including four by Ally to open the match. The Patriots ended up scoring the last thirteen points to win 25-2. Yes, 2.
It was good to get the first games of the year under our belt. This week: Merrillville on Monday, and Crossroads and a new team, Lakeshore Thunder, on Tuesday in a trimatch at Lake Hills. We know Merrillville and Crossroads will be tough, and we've heard that Lakeshore is pretty good as well. Should be a good, tough week, climaxing on Saturday in Lafayette at the Lafayette Central Catholic Tourney. See you there
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