Socorro Netters Defeats Mag

By Polo C’ de Baca
For the Mountain Mail
SOCORRO – The Lady Warriors volleyball team (3-1) played their first home game and opened with a win against Magdalena in four 25-16, 25-14 22-25, 25-19. Socorro dominated in the first two games. Magdalena (2-2) came alive and won the third game and threatened to take the match to five in the fourth competitive game.
Magdalena will host Hot Springs on Thursday, Sept. 4. Socorro will travel to Albuquerque to play Cleveland on Tuesday, Sept. 11.
“To open up with a win at home, I can’t even explain it,” Socorro coach Marleen Greenwood said. “Perfect.”
Magdalena started playing well after the first two games then finally managed to play with purpose and rally its fans.
“We had too many service errors,” Greenwood sad. “You can’t give up points on service errors. That cost us the game.
In game three, service errors cost Socorro three points, two on serves out of bounds and one by serving into the net. Early on in that same game Magdalena gave up two points by serving into the net.
Socorro essentially won the match dominating at the net with its front line height advantage blocking Magdalena’s hits. Greenwood said that the front line would probably be one of her team’s major strengths this year.
Magdalena coach Liz Olney said that her teams is still making communication mistakes and serving inconsistently.
“After we make a mistake we kind of get gun shy, quit being aggressive and quit communicating,” Olney said. We can’t do that. We just have to take charge and make plays happen. Now, we’re waiting for the plays to come to us.”
Olney said that when a serve goes out of bounds she still wants the next serve to be hit aggressively hard and not have the server to back off.
“When we make a mistake we’ve got to pick ourselves up and be ready to swing again,” Olney said. “They did block some of our hitters but some of our hitters were hitting soft. We’re being timid. We’re not being aggressive as we can.”

Socorro Netters Defeats Mag