The Aledo Ladycats varsity volleyball team ended its season as bi-district champion after falling in four sets against Argyle in the area championship at Bridgeport on Friday, Nov. 4.
It would have been difficult for the two teams to have been more evenly matched in the first set. The teams were either tied or within one point of each other 27 times during the first set.
Aledo found itself behind on a couple of occasions, one at 2-5 early, and then at 6-10. Late in the set Aledo was down 17-20 before going on a four-point run behind a block by seniors Alyssa Gonzales and Maddie Frank, a hard hit by Mia Little, and a big kill by Vivian Parker.
Parker again sparked momentum with a kill to put the Ladycats up 23-21, and Aledo won the match on a bad Argyle serve, 25-23.
Aledo played catch-up the entire second set before tying at 15 when Parker tapped a soft kill over the net. After a time out, Argyle came back to score five points to go up 15-20, and took the set 18-25.
Aledo trailed in the third set 2-8 when Parker slammed down a kill, and scored four more points on a kill by Haley Lowe and another by Gonzales, a block by Lowe and Gonzales, and a soft kill by Lowe.
That brought the Ladycats within one point before Argyle again scored. The Ladycats trailed 15-20 before putting together a three-point run to pull within two at 18-20. The Argyle coach called time out, and if the time out was intended to be a momentum killer, it worked as Argyle took it back and won the set 21-25.
Aledo found itself playing catch-up the entire third set, playing close until the latter part of the set when Argyle took charge the Ladycats lost the set and match 17-25.
Volleyball is a game of momentum, and that can shift when a team gets a hard kill, but often against Argyle Aledo lost points on soft kills — Argyle found open spots in the Aledo defense and simply tapped the ball to those spots.
Gonzales led the Ladycats in kills with 12, followed closely by Frank with 11. Parker added 9, Lauren Mack had 4, Payton Hillmer had 2, and Lowe had 1.
Lowe led the team in blocks with 5. Gonzales had 4, Frank had 2, and Mack and Hillmer had one each.
Parker, Gonzales, and Mack led the team in digs with 24, 23, and 22 respectively. Mia Little added 18 and Rylee Metts had 10. Ava Reding had 6, Hilmer had 5, Frank had 4, and Lowe had 1.
Reding and Metts led the assist category with 22 and 20, respectively. Little and Gonzales each added 2.
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