ROYAL CAN'T FIGHT BACK; MARINA ROMPS, WINNING SEMIFINAL IN THREE : MARINA 3, ROYAL 0.Byline: Lee Barnathan Daily News Staff Writer Back in September September: see month. , the Royal High School girls' volleyball volleyball, outdoor or indoor ball and net game played on a level court. An upright net, 3 ft (or 1 m) high, the top of which stands 8 ft (2.43 m) from the ground for men, 7 ft 4 1/8 in (2. team opened the season with a five-game victory. The Highlanders never played another, denying them chances to face the pressure of a must-win situation against a strong team. So when Marina Marina “a piece of virtue.” [Br. Lit.: Pericles] See : Virtuousness came pushing in Tuesday's Southern Section Division I-A semifinal, Royal didn't did·n't Contraction of did not. didn't did not didn't do know how to push back until the third game, which wasn't enough time to stop Marina's 15-11, 15-9, 16-14 victory and the Vikings' first appearance in a final. True, Royal (17-3) had opportunities to face pressure in tournaments and against Westlake, and the Highlanders showed signs Tuesday they can push back. They just didn't have enough experience. ``We had three-game matches all year long and we needed some five-game matches,'' Royal coach Bob Ferguson said. Royal played exactly one, back in September against Harvard-Westlake. They played the entire Marmonte League The Marmonte League is a high school sports league primarily made up of schools from Ventura County. The Marmonte Leauge is part of the CIF Southern Section. Click here to view the league schedule. season in the minimum 42 games (three games times 14 matches). The Vikings (17-2) pushed with Pepperdine-bound Lindsay Phillips getting 20 kills and 11 digs and junior outside hitter Chanda McLeon adding 17 kills. They also set up the middle in such a way as to neutralize neutralize to render neutral. Royal's Sherisa Livingston. Livingston got just seven kills and wasn't a factor until the third game, when she went on a tear and blocked four balls during a five-point Highlander run that gave them a 10-8 lead. She finished with seven stuff blocks. ``I'm a senior. I wanted it so bad,'' the Wisconsin-bound senior said. ``If I didn't lead, we might as well have walked off the court.'' Junior Courtney Guerra led Royal with 17 kills, including a run in the first game in which she had three straight kills and a service ace to pull her team to 14-11. Teresa Russell had just one kill, but five of her seven blocks were in the third game. Other than those moments, there weren't many Highlander highlights. The passing was inconsistent, causing setter setter: see sporting dog. setter Any of three breeds derived from a medieval hunting dog that would set (lie down) when it found birds so that it and the birds could be covered with a net. Setters have long hair on the ears, chest, legs, and tail. Maryl Mashburn to bump-set more often than not. She also didn't set Toni-Ann Merendino and Jenny Myszkowski in Ferguson's view. Merendino had six kills and Myszkowski had four kills out of eight sets. ``They served really tough and our passing wasn't strong enough,'' Ferguson said. ``We didn't have enough.'' |
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