THE COMMUNITY NEWS Sports October 29, 2010 11A

VOLLEYBALL

Aledo finishes varsity season undefeated in district play

◗ Ladycats close
district with win over
Springtown
By Dominic Genetti
The Community News
It only took three matches to
complete the final regular season
game for the Aledo Ladycats vol-
leyball team Tuesday night, but the
victory did not come easy as the
Ladycats faced their Parker County
rivals to the north, the Springtown
Lady Porcupines.
For seniors Jordan Jacobs, Taylor
Brown, Lindsey Baird and Christa
Daniel, it was their final appearance
in uniform at Aledo High School.
The four departing players along
with the rest of the varsity squad
were honored with their parents
before the game and Head Coach
Kathy Goings was recognized for
achieving her 400th career win.
But once the flowers were hand-
ed out and credit was given where
credit was due, it was time for the
state-ranked Ladycats to get down
to business.
Game 1: Springtown 24,
Aledo 26
All it took was a 4.6-second volley
for the Ladycats to get on the board
and take a 1-0 lead, but despite
Springtown’s scrambled defense
and slow start, that didn’t stop the
Lady Porcupines from growing into
a competitive force that challenged
Aledo on their home court.
“They’re a good team,” Goings
said. “You don’t want to give a team
like Springtown any power.”
Springtown eventually evened
out the score at 10 and later took
a three-point lead over Aledo. The
Ladycats began to slow down and
make small mistakes that allowed
the Lady Porcupines to pull ahead.
“Several of those runs were just
errors, our errors, and I knew if we
corrected those things we could beat
The Aledo Lady Cats varsity volleyball team went undefeated in district play for the 2010 season with a 14-0 record.
Aledo is equipped with four seniors, five juniors and three sophomores. Playoffs begin with the bi-district round Nov.
2 against Eastern Hills High School of Fort Worth.
them,” Goings said.
With a 14-10 score, Aledo held
Springtown back thanks to the kills
of sophomore Briana Sharratt and
Baird and the blocks by Dainel and
Jacobs. Sharratt and Baird finished
the night with a combined 18 kills.
Daniel capped off the evening with
three blocks while Jacobs finished
with two.
Aledo would eventually come
back to tie the match at 15 and did
not look back as they regained the
lead. But Springtown would not let
up as they too came back to tie
the match three times again. The
Lady Porcupines tied Aledo with 21
points, 23 points and 24 points as
the match’s intensity began to rise.
Sophomore Mallory Powell
became the key factor for Aledo,
producing a number of assists that
pushed the Lady Cats ahead.
“I think we got off to a slow start
and I think we came back into it,”
Powell said. “We felt like we needed
to focus and we got that intensity up
and I think we pushed harder.”
The sophomore setter finished
the night with a total of 34 assists.
Aledo pulled ahead after the 24-
point tie and won the match 26-24.
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Game 2: Springtown 15,
Aledo 25
Call it the slowest match and the
most competitive.
Springtown came out as an offen-
sive powerhouse gaining four points
on Aledo. The Lady Porcupines tied
the Lady Cats at three and held the
lead until Aledo came back to tie the
match at seven.
After a 7.9-second volley gave
the Lady Cats the go-ahead and an
8-7 lead, Aledo would gain 12 more
points before Springtown achieved
double digits. Digs from Brown and
Daniel helped the Lady Cats on their
road to a game two win as well as
kills from Jacobs.
Brown totaled 17 digs on the night
and Daniel gathered 22. Jacobs fin-
ished the night with six kills.
“We controlled the match in
game two,” Goings said. “We like to
do the middle attack. That’s one of
our favorites, but our girls are very
quick on their arm swings, so they
can beat a lot of blocks if we bring
the ball down, sometimes we’ll move
a little faster.”
Springtown would only gather
15 points in the match before Aledo
earned their 25th to seal the deal.
“That’s about as physical, besides
slamming a ball down against some-
body, as it gets,” Goings said. “I want
(the girls) to be aggressive, but not
unclassy.”
Game 3: Springtown 23,
Aledo 25
Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock said
it best when he described suspense
as the knowledge of a bomb under a
table, but being unaware of when it
will go off. The third installment of
Aledo’s evening facing Springtown was
nothing short of any Hitchcock motion
picture; a suspenseful showing.
The Lady Porcupines kept the
Lady Cats at bay by holding the lead
a majority of the match.
Aledo came close to taking an
early lead when they evened the
score at seven on an 8.3-second vol-
ley, but Springtown pulled ahead
and would go on to gain one to
two additional points when the Lady
Cats gained ground and were only
down by one.
Small aims and light taps gave
Springtown an edge and the slow-
ing Lady Cats forced Goings to call
a timeout.
“We just had to regroup and tell
each other that we can do this and
just get it together,” Powell said. “I
just think we were pressured when
they would just roll it over.”
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