Girls Volleyball Team’s Winning Streak Ends

Last month SIS started up an all girls volleyball team and entered in the public high school league. The team got off to a great start, winning their 1st game in one hour against Saipan Southern High. They continued to win until they had their 1st loss against Kagman High. After that, they got back on their on their winning streak until they lost in a very close match against MHS. After a month of playing, the team was in 1st place out of seven teams and it was time for the playoffs. Their 1st game of the playoffs was to be against the winner of the match between Grace Christian and MHS. Grace won and it was time for SIS to beat them for the 3rd time and move up to the finals.
The team started off very poorly because they were very nervous. The score was 13-3 for Grace and suddenly, SIS started winning point after point until they got ahead. SIS was 3 points away from winning the first set and the tension started up again. Grace got the ball and shot up to win by 2 points. For the beginning of the 2nd set, SIS was in the lead. The score was pretty even between the 2 teams throughout the set until SIS got up to 23 points. They were 2 points away from winning to move on to a tie breaker, but the team started to get nervous because Grace was catching up, and they got up to win the 2nd set by 2 points, just like the first.
The match was exciting with some very exciting points which had the audience sitting on the tip of their seats. Players Emma McCullough-Stearns and Jessica made a few serving streaks, Shane Jones made some great tips, Amber Roberts made some winning spikes from some great serves from Oall Haag, and some great saves were made by Lani Russel and Jian Joyner. The playoffs were single-elimination, so after the close game, the team was out, and will probably end up in 3rd place. The team’s final game was very close, but not close enough.