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SANDUSKY – A day that began with a slow start turned into a net-positive for the Lady Giant volleyball team Saturday afternoon. Fremont Ross got its day off on the wrong foot, dropping its first-round match of the MBK Invitational at Sandusky High School, but the Lady Giants rebounded to finish the day with a 2-1 record.

The Lady Giants began the morning with a 21-25, 18-25 loss to Sandusky St. Mary’s, in a match coach Kari Shull said her team just couldn’t find the gas pedal.

“I think that was a match we should have won. We were just slow,” Shull said. “Slow. Walking slow, not hustling on the court. Just slow.”

Not helping matters for Ross, in the day’s second match, against Mansfield Senior, the Lady Giants lost Olivia DeRodes, who aggravated a back injury first sustained in Monday’s match against Clyde. The Lady Giants were already playing short-handed as senior AnneMarie Moses missed the tournament, taking part in the Myron Cline Invite with the cross country team Saturday instead.

“When you don’t have your normal people, whether it was Olivia DeRodes or AnneMarie, beside you in that back row, that requires a lot more communication, it requires communication regardless, but especially when you have two new people beside each other. We came out slow out of the gate and weren’t talking or having fun while we were playing, and that made it that much harder.”

Despite the Lady Giants playing without two of their most productive seniors, Ross began to get itself going, defeating Mansfield Senior, 25-18, 25-9.

“We started doing some things better,” Shull said. “I thought our passing was decent today, the first match against St. Mary’s, and some against Mansfield Senior, we struggled a bit with that third ball, getting people to get back behind the setter, taking big swings – it just wasn’t happening.”

Ross ended the day on a high note. The Lady Giants found their rhythm and defeated Port Clinton, 25-23, 25-10.

“I finally looked at my assistant coach at like 1:15 and said, ‘Hey, we finally woke up and played as a team,’” Shull said. “That’s the Fremont Ross team I know, in that last and final set.”

While the day certainly had it frustrations, that Ross found a way to snap itself out of its funk and end the day with a winning record, Shull was pleased to take out the positives.

“We finished 2-1, not a terrible day, so we’ll take it,” she said. “We didn’t play our best, but good enough to get out of there with a pair of wins.”

The Lady Giants are now 5-7 overall and are off until Thursday when they’ll host Findlay at 7:30.

 
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