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- 0:05Morris stays confident, tops Ottawa twenty five twenty one, thirty-twenty eight. Written
- 0:11by Brian Hoxie This article is being read by an automated voice,
- 0:16brought to you by Everlet. According to Morris volleyball coach Dan Brown,
- 0:22his squad has had multiple matches this season where a lack of
- 0:25confidence has been a problem. That wasn't the case in Tuesday night's
- 0:29Interstate 8 conference opener against Ottawa at Kingman Gymnasium. The Warriors shook
- 0:35off multiple miscues in each set and a pair of set point
- 0:38chances for the Pirates in the second set to earn a 25-21-30-28
- 0:44victory. This team has the talent to do something, and as I
- 0:49tell them, it's up to them what that something is, Brown said.
- 0:52We've played a really tough schedule so far this season where we've
- 0:55been In
- 0:56some close matches. There has always been that sense of here we
- 0:59go again and not believing in our abilities. Morris had fourteen letting
- 1:04errors eight serving errors, and three net violations in the match. In
- 1:09the past, if we'd done that, we'd have lost all confidence in
- 1:13our abilities. But that didn't happen tonight, Brown said. They did a
- 1:17great job of sticking together and not letting errors deflate their confidence.
- 1:22Morris improved to 4.13 overall, while Ottawa dropped to August 1st 10.
- 1:28A four-point serving run by Cammy Pfeiffer, including an ace and a
- 1:32kill by Kenzie Ahern, gave Morris a 1510 lead in the opening
- 1:36set. Ottawa responded by scoring nine of the next eleven points, including
- 1:40two kills and a block from Keelan Gross and a kill by
- 1:43Bella Knowle, but from there the Warriors used a pair of aces
- 1:47from Brynn Thorson and winning swings from Ahern and Rosemary Missiner to
- 1:51close out the set. We had amazing energy the whole match. Morris
- 1:55Senior outside hitter Lillian Conroy said. Most of our matches this season
- 2:00it seemed like we've started really strong but then just fell apart.
- 2:03Tonight we did a good job of picking each other up if
- 2:06something didn't go right. I felt like any time we needed a
- 2:08big point, someone on our team was going to make it happen.
- 2:12I feel like we did a good job in tense situations of
- 2:15making the right play. When the second set kept going it was
- 2:18nerve-wracking, but also really fun to be in that spot and come
- 2:22through in the end. Morris led 23-19 in the second set before
- 2:26a kill by Savannah Markey, and a four-point serving spurt by Ren
- 2:30Harris, which included a kill from Noel, gave the hosts a 24-23
- 2:35lead. From there each side had a pair of set points, but
- 2:39each time the opponent found a way to stave it off. That
- 2:42was until, with the set tied at twenty eight all, an Ottawa
- 2:46lift was followed by a kill from Morris's Conroy to close out
- 2:49the match. Ahern led Morris with six kills, with Conroy and Thorsen
- 2:54each recording five. Aubrey McConnell had six service points, while Sidney Brandt
- 2:58and Pfeiffer each had five. Thorson finished with two aces. Markey led
- 3:03Ottawa with our kills, with Noel adding three. Libby Muffler finished with
- 3:08nine points and Meredith Waldron five including three aces. We had way
- 3:13too many, sixteen hitting, four serving, unforced errors, whether it be hitting
- 3:17the ball, out of bounds, misserves, or inserve receive, Ottawa coach Christina
- 3:22Correy said. Our side of the court was really messy for much
- 3:25of the match. We just didn't play our best. We were coming
- 3:29off a really nice win over Illinois Valley Central on Monday, and
- 3:33I feel like we came into this match tonight a little overconfident.
- 3:37We normally play with a certain amount of speed, but that just
- 3:40wasn't the case tonight. Both teams are back in action on Wednesday
- 3:45with Morris hosting Sandwich while Ottawa travels to Princeton.