Serving in volleyball is all about risk and reward. If you take the chance to serve tough, it can generate some easy points but can also backfire if you serve long or into the net. Undefeated Rising Sun nearly put itself in a hole with service errors at critical times during the middle stages of the Tuesday, September 25, match with visiting Bel Air, but rebounded for a 25-18, 27-25, 13-25, 25-20 triumph. "The third game, we had service errors, they didn't," Rising Sun coach Rich Wilson said. "Fourth game, they come (for Bel Air). They come in bunches. I have no idea why. But it seems one person gets them, another person gets them."
The Tigers jumped out to a 5-1 lead in game four and never trailed the rest of the way. Sophia Eckerd recorded team-highs with 13 kills and eight aces. Emily Jackson collected seven kills, ve aces 10 assists, Lauren Hudson had six kills. Megan Hoyle (18 assists) and Breelyn Young each chipped in four aces. "Our serving philosophy is to break down their passing, which we were, by in large, successful at," said Wilson. "They didn't have a whole lot of kills on us because we were breaking down their [passing]. So that's the penalty you pay. If you watch the collegiate game, it's the same way. They try to break down that first pass or they get the ball stuffed down their throats. So, it's a delicate balance." After claiming the first game, Rising Sun was pushed to the limit in game two. Three straight service errors enabled Bel Air to grab a 25-24 edge. But Eckerd came through with a kill before Jackson scored a point with a stuff block and then served an ace. After going almost five years without dropping a set in conference matches, the Tigers were tested twice in an eight-day span. "These are good," Wilson said. "You can't take these away…These four-and five-set matches just make you tougher come tournament time, because you know you can do it, you know you can play through it. But I did tell them going in to the third game, there's a reason the team that wins the first two loses the third. They ease up. You watched them. They kind of all stood around even though I said keep playing. And that puts you in a dogfight in the fourth. Hopefully, you can get through that and not have to go to a fifth." Comments are closed.
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