By Kevin Black
UCA sportswriting
Mayflower — Mayflower’s Lady Eagles lost a three-game volleyball match to Fountain Lake on Thursday, 25-11, 25-12, 25-23.
Mayflower coach Traci Berry said the Lady Eagles need to play better earlier in the match, citing slow starts to the past two matches.
“We’ve done that the last two matches now … just have to find some way to motivate,” Berry said. “Right now we just haven’t found it.”
In Game 1, the Cobras scored the first three points on kills from juniors Isis Nero and Ally Bell. The Lady Cobras were up 20-7 at one point before the Lady Eagles made a late surge, but the margin was too much to overcome and Fountain Lake won handily.
Nero had three kills and Katie Lampo, a freshman for the Lady Cobras, had four kills leading Fountain Lake to a Game 1 victory.
The Lady Eagles showed some nervousness against the Lady Cobras, according to Berry.
“You can’t play nervous. You can’t play scared, I mean, you’ve got to be able to step up when it’s intense,” Berry said. “You can’t miss serves. You’ve got to be on it the entire match. [Intensity] can’t be in waves. It’s got to be up the entire time.”
In Game 2, the Lady Cobras had seven kills, four aces and one block in an offense that proved too aggressive for the Lady Eagles’ defense. Junior Bell had three kills and two aces to lead the Lady Cobras to a 25-12 victory.
Mayflower's Kaytee Fuller said despite the loss her team played hard against a tough Fountain Lake team.
“We try our best when we want to win, and we put a lot of heart into what we do,” Fuller said. “They do have some really good players, and the hard thing about it is that our girls need more practice, and we need to learn how to get under the ball and move our feet, just be there and be ready.”
In Game 3, the Lady Eagles found their form, scoring the first four points of the match and leading until Bell scored eight straight points on her serve to provide the late charge the Lady Cobras needed to take the match. Kills by Bell (3) and Brittany Bourque (3) along with strong serving helped the Lady Cobras to victory.
Fuller said the Lady Eagles will continue to expect challenges, and they expect to meet those challenges as the season progresses.
“We’ll think about the challenges that people throw at us, and we’ll try to go over those challenges and achieve them,” Fuller said.
Next week the Lady Eagles play at Perryville.
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