Clarke Central High School senior and varsity volleyball player Camille Flurry sets up for a serve against Athens Academy at their game on Aug. 13. CCHS JV volleyball player Lily Meyers thought her team did well despite their 2-0 loss against AA. “I think some of our plays were off, but overall we communicated more. Sometimes it just didn’t work,” Meyers said. Photo by Krista Shumaker
The Clarke Central High School varsity and JV volleyball teams lost to Athens Academy on Aug. 13.
The Clarke Central High School volleyball teams hosted Jackson County Comprehensive High School and Athens Academy for their second tri-match of the season on Aug. 13 in the New Gym.
CCHS played AA for their last match of the night at 7:00 p.m. JV lost the first two sets, 25-14 and 25-17, respectively, resulting in a 2-0 loss.
“In the first game, our energy was low, and we weren’t confident in ourselves, but then in the second game, we picked it up, and we started to be excited for every point,” CCHS JV volleyball player and sophomore Lily Meyers said. “(We started to) really just love each other and love every play.”
The varsity team trailed behind AA in the first set of the game and were down six points. CCHS head volleyball coach Stacey Scott called a timeout with the score at 20-24 to regroup the team. After this break, the team returned to win the first set 26-24.
“I told them every point counts and nothing hits the ground. We were very vigilant about making sure we took care of the inlines (and) a lot of the hard crosses,” Scott said. “Catie Kiefer did a good job of picking up (hits and free balls). Ietta Veeder and also Beatrice (Acheson), senior, did an awesome job of picking up a lot of hits and free balls.”
After starting strong in the second set with a 6-2 lead, CCHS fell behind and ended up losing 14-25. After a hard-fought second set, the varsity lost the tie-breaking set 9-15, resulting in an overall 1-2 loss against AA.
“(For the next game we) definitely (need to work on) our serve-receive, making sure we capitalize on the first touch, being sure that it’s high and off the net, and taking advantage of all our hitters,” Scott said.
