Eagles stay perfect in SSL volleyball
| Wednesday, Oct 15 2008 02:00 AM
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Tehachapi's Sarah Carpenetti has a tall order on her hands as she tries to send a shot over Bakersfield Christian's Molly Armstrong (2) and Stacey Ameye (10.)
Bakersfield Christian's Molly Armstrong (2) is challenged by Tehachapi's Sarah Carpenetti (6) as she tries to push the ball over the net Tuesday night at Tehachapi.
Bakersfield Christian's Justine Schoneveld tries to keep the ball alive during a rally against Tehachapi in a match-up between two top teams Tuesday night.
Bakersfield Christian's Breann Goodmon makes a kill attempt Oct. 14 during the match against Tehachapi. She is flanked by teammates Justine Schoneveld (12) and Molly Armstrong (2). BCHS will host Visalia-Central Valley Christian in tonight's Central Section Division IV championship.
Tehachapi High students (from left) Jessica Ford, Stephanie Jarrett and Helga Torres check out their shadows being casts on the gymnasium wall on the high school as they arrive to watch Tuesday's volleyball match.
After an impressive weekend at the San Diego-Torrey Pines tournament, a letdown might have been natural for the Bakersfield Christian volleyball team Tuesday.
And it almost happened. But the Eagles, led by the rocket arm of Breann Goodmon, prevailed for a 25-22, 25-16, 27-25 victory at Tehachapi on Tuesday.
BCHS beat La Jolla and Santa Ana-Mater Dei in the prestigious Torrey Pines tournament, and tested itself in losses against nationally ranked Manhattan Beach-Mira Costa and Kern County power Liberty. Now the Eagles (14-3, 3-0 South Sequoia League) have control over their league, too.
"Coming off a tournament, where we went really hard, we gave our hearts out," said Goodmon, who finished with 18 kills, including five in a 6-1 BCHS run to end Game 1. "We need to learn to give our hearts out every single game. And that's what we had to do. It's good to see your team fight through those hard points."
Not that this one was easy. Tehachapi (25-3, 2-1) had leads of at least three points in all three games and held the Eagles' kills and blocks leader, Clare Flood, at bay for most of the night.
"We played really well," Tehachapi coach Sally White said. "We probably could have taken any one of those games."
But as if they were trying to fix a leaky dam, the Warriors stuck their thumb in one hole only to have kills spring out of another.
Many times, they came from Goodmon. After her Game 1 run, she added five more kills in Game 2 as the Eagles used a 14-3 run for an emphatic win. Then, she had eight in the final game, including one to end a long, tension-filled rally at 24-24 and another to end the match.
"I feel that we were really sluggish; we were making errors I haven't seen us make in a while," BCHS coach Michel Robinson said.
"But that's what comes out in all sports. It's a mental game."
Goodmon also had eight digs for BCHS, which received seven kills from Molly Armstrong, 19 assists and two aces from Justine Schoneveld, 15 assists from Janie Atkinson and three blocks from Flood.
Sarah Horcher led Tehachapi with nine kills and five digs. Persephonie Devereaux had seven kills and seven blocks, and Jasmine Julye had eight blocks.
