3: 0.42÷Columbia High's varsity 4: 0.56 volleyball team won for the 5: 0.69÷second time last Thursday, 6: 0.83÷holding off visiting Trout 7: 0.97 Lake/Glenwood to win a non- 8: 1.11 league match in four sets.
9: 1.25 The Bruins (2-9) won the 10: 1.39 first two sets, 25-22, 25-21, but 11: 1.53 let the Eagles back into the 12: 1.67 match in the third set, losing 13: 1.81 25-18. They secured the victoÿ 14: 1.94 ry, however, in the fourth set 15: 2.08 with a 25-23 verdict.
16: 2.22 "This was a closley fought 17: 2.36÷match between two evenly 18: 2.50 matched teams," Bruins Coach 19: 2.64 Kevin Liddiard said. "Every 20: 2.78 game was close; neither team 21: 2.92 really scored more than one or 22: 3.06 two oints at a time as went to 23: 3.19 25."
24: 3.33 Columbia jumped out to a 3- 25: 3.47 0 lead in the first set but TLG 26: 3.61 rallied to go ahead 12-10. The 27: 3.75÷back-and-forth set featured 28: 3.89 nine ties and 10 lead changes.
29: 4.03 The Bruins finally gained 30: 4.17 the upper hand, though, at 15- 31: 4.31 14 on a TLG passing error and 32: 4.44 eventually built a 23-18 advanÿ 33: 4.58 tage.
34: 4.72 After giving CHS a 24-21 35: 4.86 with its fifth serving error of 36: 5.00 the set, however, TLG battled 37: 5.14÷back to close within two 38: 5.28 points. But Kristie Morris finÿ 39: 5.42 ished it off for the Bruins with 40: 5.56 kill to a back corner.
41: 5.69 The second set played out 42: 5.83 similarly: nine ties and 10 lead 43: 5.97÷changes before CHS took 44: 6.11 charge in the late going.
45: 6.25 TLG enjoyed its biggest lead 46: 6.39 of the set at 11-6, thanks to a 47: 6.53 four-point run.
48: 6.67÷But the Eagles couldn't 49: 6.81 build on it; the Bruins saw to 50: 6.94 that with a seven-point run 51: 7.08 that netted them a 13-11 edge.
52: 7.22 Still, the set remained tight, 53: 7.36 though TLG was not able to 54: 7.50 retake the lead. The best it 55: 7.64 could do was forge five ties, 56: 7.78 that last at 18-all.
57: 7.92 CHS took the lead for good 58: 8.06 at 19-18 on Jenny Pulido's secÿ 59: 8.19 ond of three kills--a scoring 60: 8.33 shot that started a five-point 61: 8.47 Bruins run.
62: 8.61 Set point came on a block by 63: 8.75 Chrissy Duniphin, who also 64: 8.89 scored two kills in the set.
65: 9.03÷Last Thursday's third set 66: 9.17 turned on a 10-point run by 67: 9.31 TLG that turned a 9-7 deficit 68: 9.44 into a 17-10 lead. The closest 69: 9.58 CHS got after that was 22-18.
70: 9.72÷Dave'y Lumley, Michelle 71: 9.86 Winston, Ashley St. George 72: 10.00 and Allison Skahan sparked 73: 10.14 the TLG turnaround.
74: 10.28 Lumley finished the set with 75: 10.42 two kills and a service ace, 76: 10.56 Winston tallied two kills and a 77: 10.69 scoring block and St. George 78: 10.83 had two kills. Skahan was the 79: 10.97 server during the last nine 80: 11.11 points of TLG's big 10-point 81: 11.25 spree.
82: 11.39 The longest run by either 83: 11.53 team in the hotly contested 84: 11.67÷fourth set was four points 85: 11.81 (from 3-3 to 7-3, CHS, which 86: 11.94 later owned a 10-4 lead). All 87: 12.08 told, the set included six ties 88: 12.22 and and seven lead changes.
89: 12.36 The last lead change came at 90: 12.50 24-23 on a TLG hitting error. 91: 12.64 On set point, Ericka Zielger 92: 12.78 served an ace.
93: 12.92 That was the last of three 94: 13.06 aces by the Bruins (Brooke 95: 13.19 Hathaway and Robin Swanÿ 96: 13.33 huyser also served aces).
97: 13.47 "We've been in many close 98: 13.61 games this year, getting into 99: 13.75 the 20s with opponents, but 100: 13.89 unable to finish them off," 101: 14.03 Liddiard noted. "Here is was 102: 14.17 great to see us take three of the 103: 14.31 four close games to win a 104: 14.44 match as we get close to the 105: 14.58 end of the season. I think it 106: 14.72÷shows our improvement in 107: 14.86 skill as well as mental disciÿ 108: 15.00 pline."
109: 15.14 In junior varsity action, CHS 110: 15.28 lost in three sets, 25-27, 25-14, 111: 15.42 9-15.
112: 15.56
At Stevenson 3, Columbia 113: 15.69
0: The Bruins lost their Oct. 17 114: 15.83 rematch with the Bulldogs, 25- 115: 15.97 7, 25-10, 25-20.
116: 16.11 "We started out really flat- 117: 16.25 footed and let them get too 118: 16.39 many points off hard serves," 119: 16.53 Liddiard said. "We snapped 120: 16.67 out of it and passed their 121: 16.81 serves better in the third game, 122: 16.94 where we were competitive 123: 17.08 with them."
124: 17.22 Scores of the junior varsity 125: 17.36 match were 26-24, CHS; 25-23, 126: 17.50 Stevenson; 15-11, Stevenson.
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