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Posey County Sports
Rappites show flashes of brilliance
By Steve Joos
The New Harmony volleyball team had its moments Tuesday, it just didn’t have
enough of them.
And then came the third set of their match against the visiting Tecumseh
Lady Braves.
The Lady Rappites were highly competitive in the first two sets of their
game with the Lady Braves, but the wheels came off in the third contest and
that enabled Tecumseh to salt away a 25-18, 25-16, 25-5 victory.
The way the Lady Rappites played in the first two sets drew compliments from
Tecumseh coach Katie Johnson, but things unraveled quickly for New Harmony
in that third contest, as they fell behind 9-0 before a Lady Braves net
error put them on the scoreboard.
“In the first two sets, we played awesome,” New Harmony coach Liz Prewitt
said. “We were out there talking, we were having fun, and we were doing our
thing. That third match, it was like we didn’t want to be there.”
That was the toughest thing for Prewitt to understand about the third game.
“It’s hard to know how much work and effort we have out there as coaches and
as players,” she said. “And then to have them go out there and play like
that, it’s just frustrating.”
While New Harmony was competitive in the opening sets, they got down early
in the third contest and never recovered, as Tecumseh scored four points
with libero Kara Snow at the line and all but close things out with similar
runs by Kamlyn Spivey and Kenzie Duncan.
Those were the kind of runs that made the difference in the first two games
as well.
Taking advantage of some weak spots in the Tecumseh defense and aiming for
the girls in the Lady Brave rotation who were struggling, New Harmony held a
lead for half the opening set and still held a 10-9 advantage when a two
points off Stephanie Gresham’s offerings put Tecumseh in front 11-10.
A bump kill knotted things up at 11-11, but New Harmony popped the next
volley out of bounds off Alicia Blackwell, putting Tecumseh back in front
12-11.
Four more points off Snow put the Lady Braves in front for good.
“We were just hitting spots,” Prewitt said. “We were playing smart, we were
aiming for the girls that were struggling. We were going for those corners,
we were going for the middle, and we were going for those spots. We did it,
we know we can do it, We just have to do it from start to finish. We just
have to finish it.”
The same thing happened in the second set, as New Harmony took a 1-0 lead on
a missed Tecumseh serve and kept hanging around, staying in the mix long
enough to take an 11-9 lead until Gresham went back to the line.
Eight serves later, the score was 17-12 Tecumseh and from there, the Lady
Braves never looked back.
“There’s a couple of weak spots out there,” Prewitt said. “We’ll just have
to continue to adjust and continue to work on it. It’s hard to do with just
11 girls.”
Prewitt complimented Tecumseh on their talent, but she wants her team to
learn how to finish.
“Were getting there,” she said. “Start to finish. That’s what we’ve got to
do.”
Prewitt said that her team is trying and she’s proud of their efforts, but
they just have to learn how to finish things off.
Tuesday’s match was New Harmony’s only contest last week. The Lady Rappites
are 1-11 on the year and dropped a recent match at Memorial 25-12, 25-12,
25-13.
