Volleyball takes fifth in playoffs at USC

On Saturday, Nov. 5, the Georgia College club volleyball team competed in a tournament at the University of South Carolina and tied for fifth place out of the 13 teams attending.

In the original pool play, the team played three schools and advanced to round two of the playoff brackets.

GC played its first match against the University of Georgia, losing 13-25 in the first game and 17-25 in the second.

In its second match, GC played USC’s B team and lost it first game 21-25. In game two, GC was defeated 17-25.

The team played the College of Charleston’s A team in the third match and in game one they lost 14-25 and in game two, Charleston defeated GC 25-27.

“The first playoff match we won against University of South Carolina’s B team winning game one 25-15 and game two 25-19,” assistant coach junior Kyle Kirchof said. “This moved us to round two of the playoff against UGA again. We lost to them again game one 15-25 and game two 16-25.”

This was the team’s second tournament of the year, and with the ability to practice only two times a week, this tournament gave them another opportunity to gain insight on what they need to be working on.

“I feel our weakness in this last tournament was letting the other teams intimidate us. I think the girls could have had more energy when they played,” Head Coach Stephen Price said. “But overall I’m happy that they took a leap and went out-of-state for the first time since I started coaching them.”

The team went to USC with 11 out of the 15 players on their roster led by the leadership council consisting of Club Volleyball President Callan Bennett, Vice President Lauren Lee, and Treasurer Lindsay Kate Hines.

In addition to the strength of having so many players present, it also took the players’ strengths to grab their fifth-place finish.

“I feel that our serving was a strong point in this tournament and the fact that there wasn’t any one player that stood out, but I think everyone had their great moments at some point during the day,” Bennett said.

The next tournament the team is competing in is on Nov. 12 at Emory University. Hines has used the performance in this past tournament to prepare and set goals for this next tournament.

“For the next tournament we just really need to focus on playing point for point, because we tend to get too wrapped up on the previous point or something that happened,” Hines said. “We need to play like every point is a mini game so that we focus on it and then move on to the next game.”

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