Ogden VB is handed a pair of losses

Ogden volleyball girls had a chance to break the school record for wins in a season but stayed at 13 with losses against Des Moines Christian and ranked Woodward-Granger. They will have to wait until next week to see if they can reach that win number 14. 

DM Christian 3 - Ogden 0

Ogden didn’t play their best volleyball and Des Moines Christian brought their big hitters and blockers, helping them win in 3 sets. 

Ogden started off poorly with a 25-13 loss in the first set. They followed that with a 25-19 set where they came back and gave Des Moines Christian a late scare. The last set ended up 25-16 where it finished with a couple sloppy mistakes. 

Coach Ranee Carter felt that Ogden didn’t do their best. “We didn’t play to our potential.  I know we can play better. We didn’t play bad, but we didn’t do our best. Des Moines Christian brought it though and we just got beat,” Carter said. “We were sloppy and we communicated poorly.”

Overall Ogden didn’t have the best game. They started off strong in all three sets, but faltered midway through. Part of that was the ferociousness of Des Moines Christian. They were deadly with their kills, with an efficiency of 34%. That included one player for Des Moines Christian, Ava VanSlouen, getting more kills (16) by herself than Ogden had total (13). They dominated Ogden up front, adding 14 blocks. 

Speaking of blocking, that’s what Carter really thinks Ogden needs to improve on before regionals begin.

“We need to start blocking. We have struggled with that all season,” Carter said. “We also need to get on the same page. We have to be able to talk and work together as a team.”

Despite the loss, she still thinks the team is really having a lot of fun. 

“This team has learned not just how to win, but to have fun playing the game of volleyball. And that’s what was missing from this program a lot. We will keep continuing having fun until the end of the season.”

A summary of the Woodward-Granger match can be found in the Oct. 19 issue of The Ogden Reporter.

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