EC women’s volleyball team sweeps crosstown rival L.A. Harbor
In dominating fashion, the women’s volleyball team played the majority of its players as it swept L.A. Harbor College Friday, 3-0.
The Warriors (13-2, 5-0) are on a five-game winning streak as they dominated the Seahawks 25-8, 25-21 and 25-5.
“I think we started off really strong,” sophomore outside hitter Nicole Echeverri said. “I know in the past our problems tend to be that we don’t start off with enough energy.”
The Warriors dominated the first and third sets of the match.
The team had a more difficult time in the second game only winning the set by four points.
“I think we had too many hitting errors,” coach Le Valley Pattison said. “In the first game we had zero hitting errors, zero service errors, then we came back and made some personnel changes and that’s something that the people are going into the game have to work on is just limiting unforced errors.”
The Warriors’ dominating performance allowed them to give time to a lot of players that haven’t seen the court very much this season.
“Just from watching on the outside, watching how we put in our other players in I think they just weren’t as prepared,” sophomore outside hitter Darlene Lee said. “I think they were just getting used to being in the game.”
The energy level of the game wasn’t as strong for the Warriors and that affected the second set coming from the second rotation players.
“Their energy level was kind of low but we’re just trying to help them be more into the game as much as we can,” Lee said. “We’re watching them and making sure they can improve on making less mistakes.”
Echeverri tallied a hitting percentage of .692 of nine kills on 13 total attempts and only played in the first set.
Lee was perfect on her hitting attempts going five for five and totaling five digs.
Sophomore setter Sadie Fraker had a high of 17 assists for the match.
The Warriors were able to put the ball away to get easy points and ball control was pivotal for the team to dominate the match versus the Seahawks.
“We’re trying to take care of the ball on our side and we did that really well the first and third game,” Pattison said. “You can see where no matter what they’re throwing at us we’re just digging it and transitioning back and getting a good quality swing and kill on the play.”
The Warriors still have time until playoffs come to make small adjustments for every match.
“I think we just need to talk more and getting less hitting errors and staying in the positive in our hitting percentage,” Lee said.