FREMONT – For the second time in the season’s opening week, the Fremont Ross volleyball team began a match in fine form. Ultimately, however, the Lady Giants’ fast start did not carry through the match as Ross dropped to 0-2 on the young season in a 3-1 loss to Bellevue Thursday night, 25-19, 8-25, 17-25, 20-25.
Monday’s match against Tiffin Columbian saw much the same story, as Ross won the first set then lost three straight. While Thursday the Lady Giants lost the second set by a lopsided score, Monday the same thing happened in Set 3.
“Tiffin Columbian could have gone either way to me,” coach Kari Shull said. “but we had that ugly set in Set 3 against Tiffin Columbian and it was Set 2 last night for us. It’s like a switch is flipped and all of a sudden we can’t pass and it takes us forever to snap back out of that.”
Ross’ fast starts followed by lulls is in stark contrast to last season’s tendency for the Lady Giants to begin matches slowly before battling back and being more competitive after digging themselves a hole. Shull is hopeful the early-season miscues do not become another season-long trend.
“I’m hoping this isn’t going to be a consistent theme, obviously,” she said. “It hadn’t been a theme in our scrimmages. We might have had an eight-point run (against) here and there, but by the end of our four scrimmages we’d started to kind of eliminate some of those. So, it’s disappointing now that they’re hopping onto a court and that’s what’s happening, that the passing seems to fade after that first set.”
The Lady Giants are 0-2 and return to the court Monday at home against Lake at 6:30.
Due to technical complications, stats from Thursday’s match are not yet available.