The Napavine volleyball team knew it needed to play its best game to have a crack at Kalama, and the Tigers didn’t, struggling through three tough sets in a 25-11, 25-17, 25-8 loss.
“We played tentatively tonight,” head coach Monica Dailey said. “When you’re playing a team like Kalama, you can’t be tentative. You have to be aggressive the whole way, we were in our own heads tonight.”
Avery Schutz and Jessie McCoy both had 100% outings at the service line, with Schutz putting down a pair of aces. Morgan Hamilton paced the defense with 12 digs, while Keira O’Neill had a team-high six kills.
But the Tigers committed 34 unforced errors on the night, gifting the Chinooks a set’s worth of points and then some.
“It’s kinda hard to score points when we’re causing our own issues,” Dailey said. “We had pretty decent serve receive tonight, we got it where we needed to, but we’d either mess up the second or third ball.”
Napavine (2-1) will continue its run with another game against a C2BL foe that made it to Yakima last season, taking on Wahkiakum on Thursday.
“I have high expectations for them, they want to have those high expectations, but at the end of the day they have to do the work and they have to step up to it,” Dailey said. “It's either going to be something they learn and grow from or it's going to be a long season.”
