Lady Wolves defeat Jackson Sat.

The Lady Wolves volleyball team lost one on the road and won a game at home this past week.

Last Thursday, the Lady Wolves traveled to Evanston to take on the Lady Red Devils and lost in in five sets, 25-27, 25-11, 25-20, 23-25, 15-8.

In the Jackson game, which took place Saturday at home, the Lady Wolves showed they are a force to be reckoned with and won in three sets, 25-12, 25-17, 25-18.

Head coach Rikki Shantz said in their game against Evanston the Lady Wolves came out fired up and ready to play.

"They started off pretty well and won the first set," Shantz said.

During the second set, the Lady Wolves started to fall apart and that continued onto the third set. Shantz said the team was having a hard time passing and they let it get to them.

During the fourth set, the Lady Wolves were down 12-2, but they knew if they didn't win this set, the game was over. They fought hard and came back to win the fourth set, 25-23.

"I was really proud of how they fought," Shantz said.

However, the team is still struggling with being consistent. During the fifth set, the Lady Wolves made a couple of costly mistakes they couldn't recover from. Shantz said it's hard to come back when they are only going to 15 points.

After the Evanston game, Shantz and the Lady Wolves had a long, heart-to-heart chat about how to control their emotions when things aren't going their way. They discussed what it was that made them shut down emotionally as a team and what they can do to avoid that in future games. Shantz said this was a great learning experience for them.

On Saturday, the Lady Wolves were ready for Jackson and it showed in their quick win.

Shantz said the believes the Lady Wolves are realizing it doesn't matter which team is on the opposite side of the net, they need to come out and fight hard.

"It was a fun game to coach," Shantz said.

This week, the Lady Wolves will face a couple of the stronger teams in the state when they play Rock Springs Friday at 6 p.m. in Rock Springs and Star Valley at 2 p.m. Saturday at home. Shantz is curious to see how the team will handle both teams.

The last time the Lady Wolves played Rock Springs was earlier in the season, while they played Star Valley a few weeks ago. Shantz said the Lady Wolves have grown a lot since then as players.

 

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