Sat Feb 11 2012
Maybe it was the roar of the crowd or the bitter taste of a crosstown rivalry. Or perhaps it was the pressure that comes with a recent run of success.
Whatever it was that caused the Franklin County volleyball team’s collective adrenaline to spike Tuesday night at Western Hills in a hotly contested 22-25, 25-15, 25-17 FCHS win, coach Kate Osterloh said it factored into the Lady Flyers’ performance early in their match against Western Hills.
“You’ve got all that adrenaline, all that energy,” she said. “You’re so pumped up that you freak out a little bit.”
The frayed nerves equaled a 25-22 loss in the first game for the Lady Flyers, who never led in the game and, although they came within one point of the lead at times, spent most of the time down between three and six points.
Osterloh wasn’t surprised by the fast start for the Lady Wolverines, whom she described as “scrappy.”
“We know they’re not going to give up on the ball,” she said. “With a team like that, you’ve got to stay in control of your passes or else you’re going to become frenetic.”
True to their game plan, the Lady Flyers calmed their nerves and handed the Lady Wolverines a 25-15 loss in the second game in which WHHS never led after 1-0.
WHHS coach Kristi Buffenmyer said her team became too complacent after winning the first game.
“I think after we played the first game we thought, ‘Okay, this wasn’t too hard. We’ve got this,’” she said. “Then the second game we started to get down and thought, ‘Well, we still got the third game.’ You could tell we just weren’t going after balls when we got down.”
After trading points to start the third game, WHHS got behind for good after cutting FCHS’ lead to 8-7. Despite a late push, the Lady Wolverines never got closer than four points and lost to the Lady Flyers 25-17.
“In the third game, we waited too long,” Buffenmyer said. “We lost our focus and our charge, and then it was like ‘Let’s go, let’s go, the game’s almost over.’ But it was too late.”
For the Lady Flyers, the win marked the continued success of a revamped offense that features two setters instead of one.
“We’re still using our two-setter offense and I’m loving it,” Osterloh said. “As far as I’m concerned, this is our lineup until it stops working.”
Buffenmyer said she was proud of her team’s effort regardless of the outcome.
“We made some incredible passes tonight and some pop-ups that I couldn’t imagine,” she said. “They were climbing over each other to get to the ball and you can’t ask for much more than that as a coach.”
Franklin County is back in action Friday at the Lafayette Invitational and Western Hills plays again on Thursday at Grant County.
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