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Volleyball drops final home game

Straight set loss to SMC brings record to 1-8, 4 road games remain

NICK MARTINEZ Reporter

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Women’s volleyball faced defeat against the Santa Monica College Corsairs in the final home game of the season, dropping their overall record to 1-8.

The Brahmas lost the first and third set 25-21 and the second 25-16.

Team captain Catelynn Pulido led the team in with 15 kills, while Landry Bearden had 18 assists.

Head coach Edison Zhou believes that not having Rachel Wiley, who wasn’t able to play due to an injury from the previous game against Santa Barbara City College, was a major contributing part to how the game unfolded.

“I think we played pretty well, but we were missing our outside hitter Rachel who’s also one of our captains, and she's really good,” Zhou said. “We had to move Linnea to outside and it was a big change.”

Assistant coach Meaghan Wheeler said the team did well despite the changes.

“We had to work around an injury so there was some adversity,” Wheeler said. “I think they worked well around the change that we had today.

Zhou said that overall they need to improve the offense and make some slight changes.

“We need more hitters, passing is good, digging is good, but hitting and blocking need work,” Zhou said. “Right now we have seven players to play, so i don’t think we can change a lot, Just some details, like hitting and blocking, but we still have time.”

Wheeler said communication is going to be key for success in future games.

“We want to continue to work on communication, and that was the number one thing we talked about,” Wheeler said. “When there are challenges to work around, communication just has to triple.”

Pulido believes that a lack of intensity on the court contributed to their performance.

“It wasn't the worst game, we had a lot of good swings and good passes here and there,” Pulido said. “We definitely could have had our energy up a lot higher, and we could have gained a couple extra points as well as not missing serves.” nmartinez.roundupnews@gmail.com

After playing back-to-back home games, the Brahmas will play two away games against Citrus College on Oct. 31 and El Camino on Nov. 2. Both games start at 6 p.m.

Perez explained that in conference, you play each team twice. It is for this reason that the team is aware, because they have already played everyone once before. This has helped the team to know what to expect coming into the second round of games.

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“It’s not always the same issue. They are very complicated. They work 24 hours a day seven days a week without ever being turned off,” Hefter said. “And just like a car that runs that much there is always going to be maintenance or things that have to happen to it and sometimes you can get ahead of them and other times it gets ahead of you.”

Hefter said that this has been happening ever since the pools were built.

Hefter said that the administration are being supportive and expects for the repairs to start this week.

Hefter said the problem this time was that the pump stopped working and since the water was not filtering it was not safe for people to be inside.

Hefter mentioned that during her time being the pool manager it has happened at least once a year.

“Sometimes we plan them to happen so we say when we are going to be shut down for this amount of time and sometimes they happen randomly, but just about every year there is an issue and sometimes I feel like its more because we have two pools. So maybe one has an issue, then they are both fine and then the other pool is not abash.roundupnews@gmail.com

Water polo was scheduled to have a home game against the Santa Monica College Corsairs, but, due to the pool not functioning, they had to move the game to Santa Monica.

Cassidy Hoffman, utility player, said that she is frustrated in not being able to have more space to practice.

“I’m really disappointed because the pool is not working, we have the other backup pool, but it is very hard to practice in. Even though our season will end in one week but I hope the pool get fixed very soon,” Hoffman said.

Hoffman said the team is trying to work with what they have available.

“It’s difficult to set up and run full, normal practice in the small pool, but we are trying to to make the most of it,” Hoffman said.

Azin Vazirizadeh, attacker, said that practicing in the other pool has given her problems.

“It’s hard because my feet are always touching the floor. That’s why I feel more pain in my knee,” Vazirizadeh said.

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