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February 9, 2010 Since 1922 |
Leopards feast on Lady Rebel miscues
By Dave Rogers
The Temple College Lady Leopards feasted on errors by the Lady Rebels to win Tuesday afternoon’s non-conference matinee in four games.
Lee College’s season record fell to 2-4 after the 20-25, 25-21, 20-25, 22-25 loss at the Lee College Sports Arena.
After battling back to tie the match at one game apiece, the Lady Rebels committed 10 unforced errors in each of the final two games, eight of them while serving.
“We didn’t play very well at all,” LC coach Tracie Johnson said. “Coming from the weekend where we played wonderful (at the New Mexico Military Institute tournament) against much tougher competition, I don’t know if we were tired or what.
“We made many service errors, which is ironic because we worked on serving yesterday in practice. Most of their points were on our errors, not points they earned.”
The Lady Rebels had an excellent opportunity to tie the match at two games apiece when they led 17-14 in the fourth game.
But Temple College battled back behind the hitting of freshman Caitlin Cave and took a 20-19 lead. The two sides were tied at 20 and 21, before a Lady Rebel passing error put the Lady Leopards ahead to stay.
Lee College got a sideout at 22-24 on a Temple serving error and had Julisa Ocasio back for one of her tricky spin serves. But a Lady Rebel bumped the net on Temple’s serve-return, giving the point and match to the visitors.
Canadian freshman Jasmine Marta led Lee College with nine kills and four ace serves while Kindra Wright, a freshman from Hamshire, had eight kills.
Ocasio, a sophomore from Puerto Rico had 28 set-assists, 13 digs and three aces. Puerto Rico freshman Stephany Salas had 26 digs. Beaumont sophomore Tiara Robinson had four blocks and Serbian sophomore Tamara Kitic had 10 digs and two blocks.
The 6-foot-4 Kitic went out with a leg injury early in the fourth game and her availability for this weekend’s tournament was unknown.
Texarkana freshman Jatoya Arnolds took Kitic’s spot in the lineup.
“Jatoya went in and did very well,” Johnson said. “She’d never played that position, but she got a block right off the bat and had a couple of digs.”
Cloud County Community College of Kansas, Coastal Bend College, Galveston College, Navarro College and Ranger Junior College will compete in pool play Friday in the Lee College tourney, which begins at 9 a.m. in both the arena and gymnasium next door.
The top four teams advance to bracket play in the arena Saturday, which begins at 10:30 a.m.
The Temple College Lady Leopards feasted on errors by the Lady Rebels to win Tuesday afternoon’s non-conference matinee in four games.
Lee College’s season record fell to 2-4 after the 20-25, 25-21, 20-25, 22-25 loss at the Lee College Sports Arena.
After battling back to tie the match at one game apiece, the Lady Rebels committed 10 unforced errors in each of the final two games, eight of them while serving.
“We didn’t play very well at all,” LC coach Tracie Johnson said. “Coming from the weekend where we played wonderful (at the New Mexico Military Institute tournament) against much tougher competition, I don’t know if we were tired or what.
“We made many service errors, which is ironic because we worked on serving yesterday in practice. Most of their points were on our errors, not points they earned.”
The Lady Rebels had an excellent opportunity to tie the match at two games apiece when they led 17-14 in the fourth game.
But Temple College battled back behind the hitting of freshman Caitlin Cave and took a 20-19 lead. The two sides were tied at 20 and 21, before a Lady Rebel passing error put the Lady Leopards ahead to stay.
Lee College got a sideout at 22-24 on a Temple serving error and had Julisa Ocasio back for one of her tricky spin serves. But a Lady Rebel bumped the net on Temple’s serve-return, giving the point and match to the visitors.
Canadian freshman Jasmine Marta led Lee College with nine kills and four ace serves while Kindra Wright, a freshman from Hamshire, had eight kills.
Ocasio, a sophomore from Puerto Rico had 28 set-assists, 13 digs and three aces. Puerto Rico freshman Stephany Salas had 26 digs. Beaumont sophomore Tiara Robinson had four blocks and Serbian sophomore Tamara Kitic had 10 digs and two blocks.
The 6-foot-4 Kitic went out with a leg injury early in the fourth game and her availability for this weekend’s tournament was unknown.
Texarkana freshman Jatoya Arnolds took Kitic’s spot in the lineup.
“Jatoya went in and did very well,” Johnson said. “She’d never played that position, but she got a block right off the bat and had a couple of digs.”
Cloud County Community College of Kansas, Coastal Bend College, Galveston College, Navarro College and Ranger Junior College will compete in pool play Friday in the Lee College tourney, which begins at 9 a.m. in both the arena and gymnasium next door.
The top four teams advance to bracket play in the arena Saturday, which begins at 10:30 a.m.