For the Mountain Mail
SOCORRO – Running hot and cold on Tuesday evening the Lady Warriors volleyball team lost in five 21-25, 25-18, 19-25, 25-12, 13-15 to Valencia in an exciting game that had fans sitting on the edge of their seats until the last point. This year is the first year that Valencia High School, founded three years ago, has seniors playing on their team.
Socorro (6-6) will travel to Thoreau (3-9, 0-3) on Saturday to play the Lady Hawks
In the first game Socorro led until Valencia tied the game at 12 after a six-point run. Socorro trailed at 18-19 but eventually lost 21-25. Socorro dominated completely in the second game, holding off a five point Valencia run.
Socorro’s momentum seemed to have carried over in the beginning of the third game. But after trailing 19-17 Valencia had an eight-point run and won 25-19.
Socorro dominated the fourth game again, winning 25-12.
The final game with the race to 15 points had the crowd on their feet and screaming. Socorro trailed 4-2 then led 6-4.
The game was tied at all the way up to nine when Socorro went ahead 11-9. Valencia tied the game at 11. Socorro led 13-11 when the Lady Jaguars went on a four point run to win the game and match 15-13.
“It shouldn’t have even gone five,” Socorro coach Marleen Greenwood said. “In the first game we were up 6-1.We shouldn’t have let them come back from five points down.”
“We do our best when we’re the aggressive team,” Greenwood said. “That’s something that we’ve got to do more of.”
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