High School Volleyball: No regrets for R.A. Long after senior laden State run
Net Work Issues – Lumberjills 'too inconsistent' to advance in first State Tournament appearance since 2009
Jordan Nailon for Blast Zone Media / blastzonenews@gmail.com
Prep Volleyball / Reports
YAKIMA VALLEY SUNDOME — It’s easy for a volleyball novice to look at a match, see a heavy hitter on the winning side of the net, and assume that the biggest girl, who jumps the highest, swings the hardest, and stacks up twice as many kills as anyone else might have been a problem for the losing team to contend with.
So when Fife’s Talula Lenoir smacked one ball after another off the sport court in the 2A State Tournament at the Yakima SunDome, some reporters began to wonder if she might have single-handedly been responsible for eliminating R.A. Long, Friday, in the 2A State Tournament at the SunDome.
R.A. Long head coach Whitney Nailon made sure to put that notion to bed quicker than a pair of pre-K boys at storybook time.
“We made a lot of hitting errors and our serving game was off. We just weren’t consistent,” Nailon said. “Offensively we could have been smarter and it got away from us.”
Alas, the Lumberjills were unable to close out on a promising start against he Trojans and wound up falling in five sets on the dark side of the bracket. That loss, combined with a sweep at the hands of Tumwater earlier in the day, brough R.A. Long’s season to an unceremonious close on the season’s biggest stage.
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