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COQUILLE — A year ago, Marshfield’s volleyball aggregation was done by this time, kept from the postseason with a fifth-place accomplishment in the Far West League.
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This year, the Pirates can beforehand to the accompaniment clash with a home win in the Class 4A playoffs afterwards assault South Umpqua in the alliance agriculture bold Tuesday at Coquille High School.
The Pirates swept the Lancers 25-21, 25-22, 25-17 in a bout set up aback the two teams aggregate the alliance title. Now Marshfield has a bye through the play-in annular while South Umpqua will host a aggregation for a adventitious to beforehand to the annular of 16.
“It feels a lot bigger to be in the driver’s bench and apperceive we accept a home playoff game,” Marshfied drillmaster Tammie Montiel said.
“It’s absolutely cool agitative — from breadth we were aftermost year to this year,” Marshfield’s Ravyn Miranda said. “We’ve put in so abundant adamantine assignment and Tammie is such a acceptable coach.”
The Pirates overcame a apathetic alpha in the aboriginal set Tuesday and afresh agitated the drive of the able accomplishment in that set through the abutting two to exhausted the Lancers. They won with boxy aegis and a adroit bold plan to booty South Umpqua setter Sydnie Johnson out of the breach as abundant as possible.
“I anticipate we played good,” Miranda said. “I’m absolutely blessed with how we went for every brawl and approved to dig every brawl up.”
Marshfield trailed 7-1 aboriginal in the aboriginal set and afresh 19-13 afterwards a brace of aces by South Umpqua’s Jenna Whitmore, afresh angry the bout around.
“We came calm and talked about accepting our attitudes up and aloof activity afterwards aggregate and not giving up on anything,” Marshfield libero Makenna Anderson said.
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The Pirates accomplished the aboriginal set on a 12-2 run. Alex Locati, Mallory Heyer, Kenadi Rhodes and McKayla Myrand all had kills during the able accomplishment and apprentice Cedar Ward accomplished the set with a being block.
But it was the aegis that kept abundant credibility animate until either Marshfield could get a annihilate or the Lancers fabricated a mistake.
“We’ve been accomplishing a lot bigger at affective our feet,” Anderson said.
As usual, the libero had a big night, finishing with 26 digs, but the Pirates additionally got a huge lift from Heyer, who alone plays in the aback row on credibility she is confined afore Anderson comes aback in as libero. Heyer had three address on one key point afore a annihilate by Myrand gave the Pirates a 21-20 advance in the set, and accomplished with 15 address on the night, additional best on the team.
“She absolutely had a abundant game,” Montiel said.
Heyer additionally had seven kills in the match, accouterment a fair allocation of the offense, and got all of her serves in, not consistently a given, while confined for 13 points.
“When she was in the advanced row, she took some big swings,” Montiel said. “She came up big for us tonight. Everybody played well.”
Myrand had a team-best 12 kills, while Rhodes had eight and Alex Locati six.
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But a big allotment of Marshfield’s bold plan was again hitting the brawl cautiously or angled it anon at Johnson so she had to accomplish a canyon and wasn’t able to become the setter on a lot of plays, attached the opportunities for South Umpqua’s big hitters.
Johnson accomplished with 27 digs, finishing with several added of those than she had assists.
Montiel had a anticipation the action would assignment afterwards the Pirates absent their bout at South Umpqua. She got the players to buy in to the abstraction and it accepted successful.
“That was our bold plan activity in,” she said.
Jenna Whitmore and Shalyn Gray anniversary accomplished with seven kills to advance the Lancers.
But often, South Umpqua’s hits were dug up by Marshfield’s players afore they could get abreast the floor.
Locati and Miranda additionally accomplished in bifold digits for digs, while Rhodes and Myrand had nine each.
Once Marshfield got drive from acceptable the aboriginal set, the Pirates never let South Umpqua get it back.
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Marshfield jumped out to a 9-3 advance in the additional set and afresh captivated on, with alone one close moment aback South Umpqua denticulate four beeline credibility aback Marshfield was at set point afore Rhodes concluded the set with a well-placed tip into an accessible breadth of the court.
The Pirates never trailed in the third set, abduction ascendancy for acceptable with a four-point account run including two aces by Miranda amid through the set.
Marshfield now waits until afterwards the play-in annular to see who it will comedy for a atom in the tournament. That gives the aggregation time to assignment on a few things that accept appear up during the season, Montiel said.
The players won’t apperception that solid anniversary of convenance after a match.
“We charge to accumulate alive hard,” Anderson said.
The playoff bout will be on Saturday, Oct. 28.
The Pirates are the No. 6 berry for the playoffs.
Meanwhile, South Umpqua will host Corbett in the play-in annular while North Bend visits Estacada and Siuslaw is at Cascade.
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