LIMA – The Lady Giants’ volleyball may have come home with a straight-set victory Thursday night, but it wasn’t exactly chalk-full of plays that will make the season-ending highlight video.
Kennedy Bohannan
Olivia Baptista
Ross was sluggish from start to finish, even though the Lady Giants won 3-0 by scores of 25-18, 25-18, 27-25.
“I think they kind of walked into the gym thinking they could make easy work of this game and they just struggled,” coach Kari Shull said. “Lima played a slower ball, a slower pace and I think we struggled to put our game together.”
Given the warm temperatures of late, along with the classes starting this week, Shull believes her team is showing signs of fatigue.
“It was really hot in our gym (Wednesday) night and I think with school starting and all that stuff, I just think we have a set of tired kids,” Shull said. “We’ve been going for about a month now and then you throw in school on top with a different kind of routine and I think the kids were a little tired, a little slow at practice last night and it carried into today.”
The Lady Giants are also monitoring the ankle of junior Hayley Lawrence. Lawrence first injured her ankle Monday night against Lake, though she returned to the match. Though she was fine in warm-ups, once Thursday’s match began, the ankle started to bother her. Shull removed her as not to aggravate it any worse.
Hayley Lawrence
“We have a little bit of a break coming up here (with Labor Day weekend) and we want to take advantage of that and get it healed,” Shull said.
With Lawrence out, Shull said Olivia Baptista and Kennedy Bohannan provided Ross with a spark.
“I thought Olivia Baptista and Kennedy Bohannan really stepped up to the plate today and really helped carry our team through to victory.”
The Lady Giants are back on the court next Thursday at home against St. Ursula.