Lady Cardinals Collect A Pair Of Wins

Going into last week the Lady Cardinals were tied for last place in the district having yet to earn a conference win.  That made last week’s games against Aberdeen and Declo very critical games for the Cardinals to win.  Soda Springs first faced off against Aberdeen on the road last Wednesday.  Each team had yet to secure a win over a district opponent meaning the loser of that game would be all alone in last place.  The Lady Cardinals were determined to make sure that it would not be them at the bottom looking up.  Soda Springs didn’t waste any time getting down to business quickly taking control of the match and walked away with three convincing set wins to sweep the match.

Having finally picked up a district win the Lady Cardinals next faced off against Declo at home.  The Lady Hornets had beaten the Lady Cards early this season in just four sets.  Soda Springs desperately needed to answer back in order to have any chance of hosting a district tournament game.  In the first set of this best of five match the Lady Cardinals came out swinging and quickly built a commanding lead.  Leading by as many as ten points the Cardinals cruised to a set one win.  As the second set began the Lady Hornets seemed to have finally got their feet under them and the set became a see-saw affair with neither team able to build any kind of lead early on.  The set remained a one or two point game until around the fifteenth point.  It was then that the Lady Cards began to pull away just a little.  After getting the score to 23-17 the Cards struggled to put the set away.  Finally after giving up some consecutive points to the Lady Hornets the Cardinals closed out the set with the win and took a 2-0 set lead in the match.  In the third set the Lady Hornets were the ones that jumped out to an early lead, getting up by as much as five.  Soda Springs continued to battle, eventually tying the score at thirteen. Unfortunately that would be as close as the Lady Cardinals would get for the rest of that set eventually dropping the third set.  In the early going of the fourth set the game once again stayed close.  Eventually the Lady Hornets were able to build just enough of a lead that the Lady Cardinals could not overcome.  The match was now tied at two sets a piece.  This sent the match to the must win fifth set.  The Lady Hornets grabbed the momentum in the early going of the set jumping out to an 8-4 lead.  Following a Soda Springs timeout the teams traded scores back and forth.  Then the Lady Cardinals began to chip away, eventually getting to within one point forcing a Hornet timeout.  Declo maintained their one point lead for a couple more serves before the game became tied at twelve.  The Lady Cards finally got a one point lead and had their first match point leading 14-13 but the Hornets weren’t done yet.  The game became tied at fifteen and then Davis came up with back to back kills to secure the win for the Cardinals winning the match 3-2.

The Lady Cardinals have just one match this week but it’s a crucial game once again as they host West Side on Wednesday. 

Cardinals 25 25 25

Tigers 13 11 13

Cardinals 25 25 18 20 17

Hornets 16 20 25 25 15