Published: August 21, 2008 12:58 pm            

Momentum shift

The Cleburne Lady Jackets pushed the Boswell Lady Pioneers to five games before falling 25-23, 14-25, 14-25, 26-24, 15-8 on Tuesday night at Yellow Jacket Gym.

Game 1 went back and forth as the score was tied 10 times in the early going.

Boswell (5-6) took the lead for good at 11-10, but Cleburne (0-5) clawed back into the contest after the Lady Pioneers took a 16-11 lead. The Lady Jackets closed the lead to one a couple of times later in the game before falling 25-23.

Cleburne scored the first three points of Game 2 and led throughout in knotting the score at one game each with a 25-14 win. After Boswell cut the deficit to 19-13, Cleburne ended the game with a 6-1 run.

In the third game, Cleburne jumped out to a 19-6 lead, but Boswell recovered to make it 22-14 before the Lady Jackets finished off the game 25-14.

“In the third and fourth game we relaxed too much,” Cleburne head coach Floyd Rogers said. “That’s what happens with an inexperienced team. When you have the momentum, you’ve got to find a way to kick a team while they’re down.

“We started relaxing a little bit when we had that huge lead in the third game. You saw it kind of happen in the third. They started getting the momentum back. As a coach, you see it, but I know the players don’t. We started relaxing and it just carried over into the fourth game. That’s what an inexperienced team does. It relaxes a bit in those situations.”

There were eight ties early in the fourth game, with Boswell again taking the lead at 11-10. Cleburne knotted the score at 21-21 on a kill by Becca Anderson and led 24-21 before Boswell scored the final five points of the game to force a fifth game.

In the deciding game, Boswell jumped out to 7-2 lead before Cleburne closed it to 11-8. Boswell scored four straight points to end the match.

Anderson led the way with 20 kills, three blocks, and a dig. Kiley Beard had 18 kills and 13 digs, Tedi Schmidt had one kill and one dig, Morgan Brown had five kills, and Haylie Marshall had seven kills, an ace and 10 digs.

Shelby Contreras led the Lady Jackets with 33 digs, while Amelia Lanki had four, Linsi Munguia had eight and Sarah Rosser had 14.

Lacy Stinebaugh had 13 digs and 49 assists.

Cleburne’s junior varsity lost 20-25, 25-23, 25-23. The freshman A team lost 25-21, 28-26, while the B team lost 25-23, 25-11.

In other area volleyball action from Tuesday night Grandview defeated Alvarado 25-10, 25-20, 25-10.

Marissa Cooksey had 10 kills, three digs and five blocks, while Vanecia Spencer had eight kills, two digs and three digs.

Haley Goldwater had two kills, four digs and 13 assists. Amanda Obergon and Dana Durham had four kills each. Chancey Pruitt had one kill and two digs.

Nicki Johnson had 11 digs, and Angie Hughes and Samantha Wallace had two each. Wallace added four assists.

Goldwater and Spencer each served aces.

Joshua lost to Denton Ryan 25-19, 25-19, 25-19 before sweeping Fossil Ridge 25-12, 25-22, 25-23.

The Lady Owls’ JV defeated Fossil Ridge 25-18, 25-10, but lost to Denton Ryan 25-21, 22-25, 25-22.

The freshman A team lost to Denton Ryan 25-16, 25-22 before defeating Fossil Ridge 25-16, 25-14.

The freshman B team lost to Denton Ryan 25-5, 23-25, 25-19.

        

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