Winning After MidKnight
After a
exciting 3-2 win over the Liberty High School Lions it seemed like the
Middletown High School Knights Volleyball team was on an upward track as the
Knights headed into their match against the Urbana High School Hawks with the
wind blowing strongly into their sails.
Unfortunately,
for the Knights that wind would switch once they got to Urbana as the Knights
were dispatched in three straight sets by the Hawks by a score of 17-25, 19-25,
12-25 as the Knights could never get anything going against the Hawks and now
will have to go back to the drawing board.
The problems
for Middletown start early on as the Knights from the opening serve and
throughout the course of the game had troubled with service returns, with that
problem causing Middletown to go down in the first set and never get a chance
to recover from what was a bad start.
Middletown
would play a tough first set and had a chance to turn things around in the 2nd
set but just could never get on top of the Hawks as an 18-10 deficit in the
second set was too much for Middletown to overcome as a small 9-7 run was not
enough for Middletown.
Then down 2-0
in the match the Knights struggled drastically in the third set going down by a
large margin early in the set, one that proved to be insurmountable for Middletown
as they would fall in the third set by a 13 points which is more than the
Knights managed to score during that time.
It would be a
frustrating game for the resilient Knights as, after the Liberty match in which
the Knights battled back to win the match after almost slipping up and losing,
it seemed that Middletown had turned the corner successfully on maybe had a
boost of momentum because of how they played against Liberty.
That boost of
momentum was nowhere to be found when they took on the Hawks as from the jump
the Knights seemed to be flat and removed from the flow and intensity of the
game as their struggle returning serves would indicate.
The leader
for Urbana was Darian DiMatteo as her twelve kills helped power the Hawks to
victory.
For Middletown,
it was an unexpected loss and one that will force the Knights to step back and
determine where all the momentum they had came from.
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