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LAKEWOOD – The Lakewood girls volleyball squad has made it wide it has precocious expectations for this season, and truthful acold the Lancers are close connected track.
They person been untouchable successful the Moore League and are up to No. 3 this week successful the CIF Southern Section Division 1/2 coaches’ poll.
Lakewood was ascendant Thursday against league rival Long Beach Poly, winning successful a sweep, 25-14, 25-12, 25-21, astatine Lakewood High.
The expanse was the sixth consecutive for Lakewood (18-3 overall, 7-0 successful league) and its 10th successful its past 11 matches.
Long Beach Poly’s Meredith Houston hits into the blocks of Lakewood’s Keke Hall, left, and Fatimah Hall successful Lakewood connected Thursday, Sep. 23, 2021. (Photo by Scott Varley, Contributing Photographer)
Lakewood’s Keke Hall drops a speedy changeable implicit Long Beach Poly’s Saniya Kimbrough for a constituent successful Lakewood connected Thursday, Sep. 23, 2021. (Photo by Scott Varley, Contributing Photographer)
Long Beach Poly’s Adonia Faumuina winds up for a spike successful Lakewood connected Thursday, Sep. 23, 2021. (Photo by Scott Varley, Contributing Photographer)
Long Beach Poly’s Halie McGinest, right, tries to knuckle the shot astir Lakewood’s Shayna Martinez successful Lakewood connected Thursday, Sep. 23, 2021. (Photo by Scott Varley, Contributing Photographer)
Lakewood’s Fatimah Hall celebrates a constituent implicit Long Beach Poly successful Lakewood connected Thursday, Sep. 23, 2021. (Photo by Scott Varley, Contributing Photographer)
Lakewood volleyball manager Mike Wadley gets his squad acceptable to play Long Beach Poly successful Lakewood connected Thursday, Sep. 23, 2021. (Photo by Scott Varley, Contributing Photographer)
Lakewood’s Samarah DaCoud celebrates a constituent implicit Long Beach Poly successful Lakewood connected Thursday, Sep. 23, 2021. (Photo by Scott Varley, Contributing Photographer)
Lakewood’s Samarah DaCoud gets a partial artifact connected a changeable by Long Beach Poly’s Halie McGinest successful Lakewood connected Thursday, Sep. 23, 2021. (Photo by Scott Varley, Contributing Photographer)
“We did a large occupation connected being consistent,” Lakewood extracurricular hitter Samarah DeCoud said. “That is what we person been moving connected this full clip since July. We haven’t missed 1 day. Our main extremity is to beryllium accordant and support doing what we person been doing portion coming successful with the aforesaid mentality.”
Postgame interrogation with Samarah DeCoud of Lakewood. 25 kills for DeCoud arsenic the nationally ranked Lancers get a triumph implicit Long Beach Poly!@lkwdvolleyball @LWoodAthletics @BeachVarsity @johnwdavis pic.twitter.com/AZt63zbctI
— Manny Alvarez (@MAlvarez02) September 24, 2021
Keke Hall led the Lancers with 10 kills, portion DeCoud and Shayna Martinez each had 8 kills, and Laura Williams added 9 kills and 8 digs. Fatima Hall contributed 31 assists and 9 digs.
Long Beach Poly (4-12, 2-3) struggled successful the archetypal 2 sets, but gave the Lancers a scare successful the 3rd acceptable erstwhile it tied the people astatine 12 with Adonia Faumuina (six kills, 8 digs) starring the way.
“We went into the huddle and we talked astir it,” Hall said astir the last set. “We speech astir getting into a unsmooth spot and effort to get backmost into it by playing accelerated and quick.”
Postgame interrogation with Fatima Hall of Lakewood. 31 assists arsenic the Lancers expanse Long Beach Poly!@lkwdvolleyball @LWoodAthletics @BeachVarsity @johnwdavis pic.twitter.com/hKdYLQPkBg
— Manny Alvarez (@MAlvarez02) September 24, 2021
The Lancers, who are besides ranked successful the MaxPreps Top 50 for the nation, finished the last acceptable with a 13-9 tally to unafraid different expanse and widen their winning streak to 11 games.
“We conscionable determination connected to the adjacent game,” Lakewood manager Mike Wadley said. “We don’t speech astir our docket oregon who is up that week. We person a whiteboard and we speech astir our goals for that week. We don’t effort to look up due to the fact that close present we privation to marque definite we are successful a bully presumption for the playoffs.”
Halie McGinest, the girl of erstwhile NFL prima Willie McGinest, had 5 kills for the Jackrabbits.
Poly volition big Millikan successful a Moore League crippled Thursday, Sept. 30, and the Lancers volition big Mayfair connected Saturday.
Postgame interrogation with Lakewood manager Mike Wadley arsenic the Lancers expanse Long Beach Poly! @lkwdvolleyball @LWoodAthletics @BeachVarsity @johnwdavis pic.twitter.com/hWFCzvpqex
— Manny Alvarez (@MAlvarez02) September 24, 2021
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