Lucy Sandahl and the Wolf JV volleyball squad are 6-0 after pasting Chimacum. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)
Emma Mathusek pleads her case to Wolf JV coach Chris Smith. “I’m gold, man, gold. You need me on the floor!”
It was beautifully, brutally efficient.
Now, I could be talking about the final point of Tuesday night’s Coupeville High School JV volleyball match, when Raven Vick flew skyward like a superhero, then launched a missile of a spike which destroyed the back-line like it had been hit by a grenade.
Or, heck, you could pick just about any point from the match, and that’s what I could be talking about.
Moving like a pack of lethal jungle cats accidentally let loose in a petting zoo, the undefeated Wolf JV spikers polished the floor with visiting Chimacum, shredding the Cowboys 25-15, 25-7, 25-10.
It was a rout, a beat-down, a KO where the ring official was too mesmerized by the carnage to stop things in time to protect the vanquished foe.
It was Lucy Sandahl smoking aces off of bodies.
It was Maddie Vondrak climbing a staircase to heaven to put away tips as her opponent’s jaws scraped the floor.
It was Chelsea Prescott colliding with her own teammate and somehow managing to both catch Maya Toomey-Stout in mid-fall, apologize to her, and still drop a winner in between two Cowboys.
All in one effortless move.
First-year Wolf JV coach Chris Smith has yet to lose — his squad improved to 6-0 overall, 4-0 in Olympic League play with the victory — and there are no signs this team has any plans to put him through any misery any time soon.
Coupeville was clicking from the first moment Sandahl bopped to the service stripe to open things, to Vick’s teeth-rattling coup de grâce.
While the first set stayed fairly close for a bit, the Wolves began to steadily pull away after Prescott and Sandahl put together strong back-to-back runs on serve.
From there, it became much more of a rout.
Sandahl opened the first set with seven straight winners, which seemed pretty dang impressive.
Until “The Gazelle” went nuclear in the second set.
Toomey-Stout, rockin’ new shoes and a quiet smile, set down her water bottle, spun the ball in her hand, then went on a serving tear that promptly killed the very last flicker of hope still beating in the collective chest of the Cowboys.
Ripping off 12 consecutive points on her serve — Chimacum successfully returned just two — Toomey-Stout took a 12-6 lead and turned it into 24-6 in the blink of an eye.
The third set was virtually a mirror image of the second set, though with a twist as Raven Vick and Prescott each ran off six straight points on their serve.
When the ball was briefly in play, a pack of Wolves flew to whatever turf needed defending, with Kylie Chernikoff and Vondrak collecting the most electrifying winners, on a lethal kill and a superb tip, respectively.
Willow Vick, bouncing back from illness, unloaded a smokin’ ace off the back-line, while Emma Mathusek and Zoe Trujillo were rock-solid and in the middle of every play, as always.
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