CANYONS HAS NO PROBLEM WITH MARAUDERS

CANYONS HAS NO PROBLEM WITH MARAUDERS
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October 22, 2016

Photo by Bruce Jacobsen

 

VALENCIA - Tiffany Matchett led the Marauder women's volleyball team with 10 kills, but that was the lone bright spot as the No. 12 ranked team in the state College of the Canyons scored an easy victory over the Marauders, 25-12, 25-13, 25-17, Friday evening at College of the Canyons.

"We've definitely seemed to have lost something in our communication. Just our basic serving and passing game. We started off really hot winning back to back to back after our first home game," Matchett said. "But now we have dug ourselves into an 0-3 record for conference which of course isn't fun to have. We have been working so hard for this to come and we just couldn't grasp it."

Bella Bradford had six assists and three kills while Asia DeVera chipped in with eight assists for AVC (4-9, 0-3). Matchett now has 169 kills this season.

"We really just lost our fundamentals, our serving and passing broke down and that is what the base of volleyball is. When we have those down, we're fine, but without those we can't run anything," Matchett said. "No offense and it just makes us more tired. We showed a little bit of that in the second set of Bakersfield where we were in total control, but then lost it again in the next two."
The Marauders have only won three sets in conference play in three matches and are currently riding a three-game losing streak. AVC's tough pre-conference schedule, in which it played five opponents ranked in the state, was supposed to prepare the Marauders for the Western State Conference, however, it has not panned out the way the Marauders would have hoped.
In fact, the conference sports three ranked opponents (LA Mission College, Bakersfield College and COC) all of which AVC has lost to.