BAILEYTON — The Chuckey-Doak Lady Black Knights volleyball team defeated Washburn and Chuckey-Doak in a tri-match on Tuesday at North Greene.
North Greene won the first set against Chuckey-Doak 25-19 before the Lady Knights took the second set 25-21. The third set went back and forth with neither team leading by more than three points before the Lady Knights pulled out a 15-13 win.
“Oh my gosh, the energy!” Chuckey-Doak coach Marissa Snapp said. “In a gym like this, there’s not a lot of acoustics. It’s really quiet so when there’s not a lot of energy, you gotta create your own. We struggled with that in the first half of this game and North Greene definitely took advantage of that, but we had our own little come-to-Jesus meeting and we just started picking up on it.
“(North Greene’s) defense is solid. That back row is good so our hitters really had to step it up a notch and really work around the blocks.”
North Greene’s Kaydence Marshall kicked off the third set with back to back aces, helping the Lady Huskies to a 4-1 lead and eventually a 6-4 lead after a Matti Phillips kill.
Chuckey-Doak’s Chloe Kirkpatrick then served five consecutive points for a 9-6 lead.
North Greene tied the set 9-9. And with the teams tied at 13, Chuckey-Doak added a point after a long volley and Jacey Taylor ended the match with an ace.
“We’ve been really working on being more disciplined and running specific plays and coming out of that serve, receive, pass,” Snapp said. “We were able to put that mostly into effect. They communicated very well. That’s what really sparked that momentum and they protected their lead. They stayed up the whole game. They kept fighting, and they fought back even after that loss in the first set.”
North Greene took the first set 25-19 after building a 6-3 lead with Marshall serving an ace and Hannah Miller hammering a kill. Chuckey-Doak came back and took the lead 9-8 with Harley Richardson recording an ace.
The two teams exchanged leads before North Greene took a 20-18 advantage. Marshall and Josie Graham carried the Lady Huskies over with two kills on the last two serves.
In the second set, North Greene jumped ahead 5-1. Chuckey-Doak, aided by a few mistakes from the Lady Huskies, scored six points in rapid succession capped by a kill from Taylor for a 13-10 lead.
Marshall served four straight points to put North Greene ahead but Chuckey-Doak built leads of 19-16 and 23-19.
After two out of bounds hits by Chuckey-Doak made it 23-21, Macy Cox and Kirkpatrick ended the set with kills.
“Sometimes volleyball is such a mental game when you score off of somebody else screwing up,” Snapp said. “If the girls don’t check their mindset, and they don’t have that mindset of, ‘OK, I messed it up. So what? Here’s the next call.’ So keeping that positivity, picking each other up ... is what genuinely made the difference.”
North Greene coach Emaline Erwin said the Lady Huskies’ mistakes were costly.
“We did not play to our full potential,” she said. “We’re going to work on that and hopefully when we play (Chuckey-Doak) again, there’ll be a better outcome.
“We lost focus and we weren’t talking to each other. We weren’t covering. We gotta work on that. That first set we had our energy high and were talking to each other. We were watching the floor on the other side and making good pushes when we needed to.”
Graham finished with seven kills and four digs for North Greene, while Marshall served four aces, had 14 digs and 11 assists. Mercy Buchanan made 37 digs, and Loren Blevins had 19 digs, five assists and two kills.
North Greene
Before battling Chuckey-Doak, the Lady Huskies defeated Washburn 25-8, 25-15.
The first set couldn’t have started better for North Greene. After a Miller kill, Marshall served back to back aces for a 3-0 lead. The lady Huskies built a 6-3 lead before Blevins put together a five-serve streak, assisted by two kills from Phillips, for a 10-3 lead.
From there, North Greene continued to dominate the set en route to the 25-8 win.
In the second set, North Greene built a 7-2 lead, including kills by Marshall and Miller and an ace by Miller as well.
Washburn cut the lead to 9-8 but never took the lead.
Toward the end of the match, Phillips put down back to back kills to help North Greene pull away for the 25-15 win.
Miller finished with five kills and five digs. Buchanan had 22 digs and Marshall served two aces.
“We did pretty good,” Erwin said. “We came out strong and I was very happy with how we played. We were a little slow at the beginning but we did good.”
North Green (2-1) travels to Providence Academy at 5 p.m. Thursday.
Chuckey-Doak
Chuckey-Doak also faced Washburn, sweeping the Lady Pirates 25-12 and 25-14.
The Lady Knights jumped to an 8-1 lead in the first set with kills from Carlene Bishop, Cristen Bishop and Taylor.
Chuckey-Doak kept a sizable lead throughout the set, putting together a six-point run with Isabelle Karriker and Addyson Pruitt teaming for a block and Maddie Shelton hammering a kill.
The Lady Knights capped the 25-12 win with a well-placed serve from Shelton.
Similar to the first set, Chuckey-Doak quickly jumped ahead. After Pruitt opened things up with an ace, the Lady Knights scored five more with Kendra Key recording three kills.
Washburn found some life late, scoring six points in short succession to trim the lead to 24-12, but an out of bounds serve from the Lady Pirates gave Chuckey-Doak the 25-14 win.
“It was a nice little pick me up from yesterday,” Snapp said with a smile. “Very, very happy with how it went. I’m very excited for the rest of the season.”
Chuckey-Doak (2-1) travels to Elizabethton at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
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