Staples boys volleyball team lost to visiting Masuk by 3-2 on Monday
The match that the Staples boys volleyball team played on Monday did not turn out the way they expected it to.
Despite the fact that Staples was playing with the added advantage of being in their home ground, that fact did not help them to secure a win over the visiting Masuk volleyball team.
Whatever the outcome of the match, it did not fail to thrill the audience present to watch the show. Both the teams played competitive volleyball that made the match go on to five long and entertaining sets.
By the time that the night was out, the scoreboard declared a Masuk victory by displaying the final set scores that stood at 22-25, 25-22, 25-20, 19-25, 15-13.
The recent defeat that the Wreckers suffered against their rivals had another implication. It marked the first loss of the Wreckers since the month of May of the year 2006 in regular season play.
From the beginning of the opening set of the match, it was clear that both the teams will be giving it their all. Both the teams stayed almost neck to neck during the entire length of the match. As soon as one team got the lead, the other put on a spurt
of speed and pushed past ahead. As the match reached its final stages, Staples was able to go in for the kill and bagged the first set of the match at 25-22.
Losing the first set of the game did not demotivate Masuk who answered by taking the lead early on with the help of a 6-0 run.
However, the Wreckers did not let Masuk go too far ahead and were able to close in the gap. Unfortunately, for the Wreckers, that was all they could manage and could not take the lead. As a result, Masuk finished off the second set of the game by securing
it at 25-22.
Once the momentum of Masuk got built in the second set, they did not let it go in the third set as well. As a result, the Wreckers got outplayed by their opponents in terms of attack as well as the defence. Masuk won the third set of the game at 25-20.
With two sets down, the Wreckers felt the pressure of bringing the match to a fifth set if they wanted any chance at a win.
Consequently, the Wreckers won the fourth set but lost the fifth one at 25-19 and 15-13 respectively.
“There were times where they played around our defense and there were times when our defense didn't get the job done,” Jake McCambley, the captain of the Wreckers said at the end of the match. “The same thing goes for our offense. No doubt the game could
have gone either way.”
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