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Written by Brandon Hutton, The Eagle Senior Writer
The boys’ volleyball team traveled to Brashear this Tuesday to compete for the city crown. They were up against Brashear, Carrick, and their main competitor, Allderdice. The boys ended up being successful after rounds of hard work.
The team had to defeat Carrick for the first round of the tournament. They went up 6-1 and forced Carrick to take a time out. With good serves by Rondell Harris and all around good play by all starters, they ended up winning the first round 25-10. The second set came around and Obama seemed like a new team, that is, in a bad sense. They were making small mistakes which allowed Carrick to keep it tied for about five points but then Obama took over. Even with Jonah Raether’s elbow injury, Obama was able to sweep Carrick. Meanwhile, in the other gym, Allderdice beat Brashear which meant that Obama would play Allderdice in the winners’ bracket and Carrick and Brashear would battle it out in the losers’ bracket.
The benches of Obama and Allderdice were going wild for the start of the game. Sadly, Allderdice ended up being louder as they had the 8-3 lead whenever Coach Vitti took a time out. There were many mistakes by Obama and they were down 11-24 at one point in the game. When the second game started, there seemed to be a change in the play of Obama. With a lot less mistakes made, they forced Allderdice to take a time out. Even though they were behind for a point at the score of 10-11, they ended up taking the lead on errors by ‘Dice. By only a two point margin, Obama won 25-23 on a kill by Sadik Roberts. In the third match, Obama came out looking good. With good serves by Sadik they were able to win it 15-8 and move on to the championships.
The loser’s bracket was then set with Allderdice and Brashear. Allderdice won that much in a closely competed game. Obama took a four point lead early in the game due to good spikes by Tobias and Sadik. With the game at one point 16-15 in favor of Obama, they turned up the heat and went on a big rally and ended up winning game one by a margin of 8 points. The second set didn’t look so good. Allderdice took the first three points on errors made by both teams. Obama was up 18-15 at one point in the game but Allderdice started to rally and made it 18-19, in favor of ‘Dice. On another kill by Sadik, the game was tied 20-20. Whenever Obama was up by two points, Allderdice called a time out and Obama took the last three points of the game to win 25-23.
This was the first volleyball championship under the name ‘Obama’ but really, the legacy of Schenley volleyball under Coach Vitti goes back another 6 years….in a row. This was number 7.
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