Lady Lancers Rally To Beat Huntington
October 27, 2020 at 9:56 p.m.
Lady Lancers Rally To Beat Huntington
By Josh Neuhart-
The Lady Lancers recovered after dropping the opening set, outclassing the Foresters for the next three sets to take the match.
Gabbey Harrington directed the attack for the Lady Lancers (7-4, 7-4 Crossroads League), amassing an impressive double-double of 42 assists, 12 kills, 6 digs and 2 aces.
Harrington helped three other teammates reach double-digit kills, including Paige Eakright (13 kills), Makaela Lochmueller (11) and Cassadi Colbert (10).
Grace was slow beginning the match on Monday. The Lady Lancers lost eight of the first 12 points and never came out of that hole.
Harrington did much of the heavy lifting offensively in the set, leading Grace with four kills.
The Lady Lancers’ attack was much more dynamic in the second set. Grace forced Huntington to burn an early timeout after grabbing a three-point lead, and the Lady Lancers maintained a slight lead en route to a 25-19 win.
After producing eight kills in the opening set, Grace racked up 15 kills with just two errors in the second set.
Lochmueller had five kills in the set, and Harrington had four more kills. Mackenzie DeLong proved strong defensively, adding one solo block and two block assists in the second set.
The teams could barely be separated in the third set. Grace’s defense was the difference with four blocks. The Foresters (0-13, 0-12 CL) were forced into 11 attack errors as Grace won 25-20 to take control of the match.
The momentum was all Grace’s for the rest of the match. The Lady Lancers won the first six points of the fourth set and never slowed down. Grace pulled ahead 10-2 and soon after opened up a double-digit lead en route to a final 25-14 victory.
DeLong, playing in her second varsity match, secured the win with a kill on the final point of the match. DeLong finished with 2 kills, 1 solo block and 4 block assists.
Colbert and Eakright each had five kills in the fourth set to propel Grace’s attack, which exploded for 19 kills in the set.
Julia Nagy covered a lot of ground defensively, tallying a match-high 27 digs to go along with six assists and two aces.
Gina Novotny had 14 digs and an ace, Emily Sharp had 11 digs, and Brittany Baize added nine digs and two aces.
The Lady Lancers hit the road on Wednesday for a match at Bethel at 7 p.m. Grace then returns home on Saturday for a 3 p.m. contest against Bears' offense seeks
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Coach Matt Nagy usually has answers for what's happening with the Chicago Bears' offense, whether it is good or bad.
After a 24-10 loss to the Los Angeles Rams on Monday night in which they were held to a season low in points and the defense scored the Bears' only touchdown, Nagy was left without an explanation for Chicago's latest dismal performance with the ball.
"I don't ever remember having our own defense score more than our offense," Nagy said. "That's that's that's hard to do. So that part I don't like, and it bothers me."
The Bears (5-2) believed they had addressed their underperforming offense by trading for quarterback Nick Foles in March, and it looked like a fix when he replaced Mitchell Trubisky to lead their rally from a 16-point deficit to beat the Atlanta Falcons in Week 3. But the offense has averaged 16 points per game in Foles' four starts since, and he's getting little help from the players around him.
The offensive line struggled against the strong front of the Rams (5-2), producing just 2.9 yards per carry. Foles was sacked four times, twice at the hands of former Bears linebacker Leonard Floyd, and he threw two interceptions.
Tight end Cole Kmet boxed out a Rams linebacker for an impressive 38-yard catch in the first half, and Allen Robinson got free for a 42-yard grab in the fourth quarter. But those were the only instances in which the Bears created explosive gains.
"We just have to look at everything," Nagy said. "I don't want to point fingers. I just don't wanna do that to just our offensive line or just our wide receivers or tight end or the quarterback, because we're all in this thing together. I know it's not an answer that y'all wanna hear, but we have to keep plugging away. We have to try to fight through this really difficult position that we're in right now."
What adds to the pressure for the offense to find solutions quickly is a defense that continues to play at a high level. Having limited the Rams to 11.5 points per game in the teams' meetings in the previous two seasons, the Bears were not as effective when faced with a heavy dose of quick throws, play-action and bootlegs to limit the pass rush duo of Khalil Mack and Akiem Hicks.
But they still created enough havoc to keep Chicago hanging around, with veteran defensive end Robert Quinn forcing a fumble on a fly sweep that safety Eddie Jackson returned eight yards for a touchdown.
The defense followed up the score by forcing a quick three-and-out, but Foles was picked off on the ensuing drive.
Jackson said the defense would never pin the loss on the offense. Instead, he believes everyone on the team will focus on improving. "We're gonna get better," he said.
Nagy agreed that accountability is the only way for the Bears to work through their struggles, starting with himself as play caller.
"It's not clicking right now. It's not. As any competitor, and I'm as competitive a person as there is, that's the part where I have to challenge myself to stay patient and challenge myself to not get frustrated as well, and continue to keep coaching to the best I can and look at everything," Nagy said. "What do we do? And how do we get to this point? I hate to feel repetitive but that's the only thing we can do. We're 5-2, so what I said before is, we built this little cushion and now it's our job to be able to use it and not lose it."
The Lady Lancers recovered after dropping the opening set, outclassing the Foresters for the next three sets to take the match.
Gabbey Harrington directed the attack for the Lady Lancers (7-4, 7-4 Crossroads League), amassing an impressive double-double of 42 assists, 12 kills, 6 digs and 2 aces.
Harrington helped three other teammates reach double-digit kills, including Paige Eakright (13 kills), Makaela Lochmueller (11) and Cassadi Colbert (10).
Grace was slow beginning the match on Monday. The Lady Lancers lost eight of the first 12 points and never came out of that hole.
Harrington did much of the heavy lifting offensively in the set, leading Grace with four kills.
The Lady Lancers’ attack was much more dynamic in the second set. Grace forced Huntington to burn an early timeout after grabbing a three-point lead, and the Lady Lancers maintained a slight lead en route to a 25-19 win.
After producing eight kills in the opening set, Grace racked up 15 kills with just two errors in the second set.
Lochmueller had five kills in the set, and Harrington had four more kills. Mackenzie DeLong proved strong defensively, adding one solo block and two block assists in the second set.
The teams could barely be separated in the third set. Grace’s defense was the difference with four blocks. The Foresters (0-13, 0-12 CL) were forced into 11 attack errors as Grace won 25-20 to take control of the match.
The momentum was all Grace’s for the rest of the match. The Lady Lancers won the first six points of the fourth set and never slowed down. Grace pulled ahead 10-2 and soon after opened up a double-digit lead en route to a final 25-14 victory.
DeLong, playing in her second varsity match, secured the win with a kill on the final point of the match. DeLong finished with 2 kills, 1 solo block and 4 block assists.
Colbert and Eakright each had five kills in the fourth set to propel Grace’s attack, which exploded for 19 kills in the set.
Julia Nagy covered a lot of ground defensively, tallying a match-high 27 digs to go along with six assists and two aces.
Gina Novotny had 14 digs and an ace, Emily Sharp had 11 digs, and Brittany Baize added nine digs and two aces.
The Lady Lancers hit the road on Wednesday for a match at Bethel at 7 p.m. Grace then returns home on Saturday for a 3 p.m. contest against Bears' offense seeks
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Coach Matt Nagy usually has answers for what's happening with the Chicago Bears' offense, whether it is good or bad.
After a 24-10 loss to the Los Angeles Rams on Monday night in which they were held to a season low in points and the defense scored the Bears' only touchdown, Nagy was left without an explanation for Chicago's latest dismal performance with the ball.
"I don't ever remember having our own defense score more than our offense," Nagy said. "That's that's that's hard to do. So that part I don't like, and it bothers me."
The Bears (5-2) believed they had addressed their underperforming offense by trading for quarterback Nick Foles in March, and it looked like a fix when he replaced Mitchell Trubisky to lead their rally from a 16-point deficit to beat the Atlanta Falcons in Week 3. But the offense has averaged 16 points per game in Foles' four starts since, and he's getting little help from the players around him.
The offensive line struggled against the strong front of the Rams (5-2), producing just 2.9 yards per carry. Foles was sacked four times, twice at the hands of former Bears linebacker Leonard Floyd, and he threw two interceptions.
Tight end Cole Kmet boxed out a Rams linebacker for an impressive 38-yard catch in the first half, and Allen Robinson got free for a 42-yard grab in the fourth quarter. But those were the only instances in which the Bears created explosive gains.
"We just have to look at everything," Nagy said. "I don't want to point fingers. I just don't wanna do that to just our offensive line or just our wide receivers or tight end or the quarterback, because we're all in this thing together. I know it's not an answer that y'all wanna hear, but we have to keep plugging away. We have to try to fight through this really difficult position that we're in right now."
What adds to the pressure for the offense to find solutions quickly is a defense that continues to play at a high level. Having limited the Rams to 11.5 points per game in the teams' meetings in the previous two seasons, the Bears were not as effective when faced with a heavy dose of quick throws, play-action and bootlegs to limit the pass rush duo of Khalil Mack and Akiem Hicks.
But they still created enough havoc to keep Chicago hanging around, with veteran defensive end Robert Quinn forcing a fumble on a fly sweep that safety Eddie Jackson returned eight yards for a touchdown.
The defense followed up the score by forcing a quick three-and-out, but Foles was picked off on the ensuing drive.
Jackson said the defense would never pin the loss on the offense. Instead, he believes everyone on the team will focus on improving. "We're gonna get better," he said.
Nagy agreed that accountability is the only way for the Bears to work through their struggles, starting with himself as play caller.
"It's not clicking right now. It's not. As any competitor, and I'm as competitive a person as there is, that's the part where I have to challenge myself to stay patient and challenge myself to not get frustrated as well, and continue to keep coaching to the best I can and look at everything," Nagy said. "What do we do? And how do we get to this point? I hate to feel repetitive but that's the only thing we can do. We're 5-2, so what I said before is, we built this little cushion and now it's our job to be able to use it and not lose it."
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