A questionable call made the visiting team’s coach get off his seat and head toward the court. Warriros’ sophomore outside hitter Nehemiah Iosia walked up to the referee pleading with him to change the call.
“That doesn’t make sense,” Iosia said to the ref.
Iosia had attacked the ball into the hands of a Santa Barbara City College defender. The ball was then hit out-of-bounds, but the referee had said Iosia hit the ball out, not the defender and the score was 19-14 in the second set, in favor of the home-team Vaqueros.
Sophomore middle blocker Peter Nordel, was definitely not happy with the call, and slammed back-to-back kills off the hands of Jonathan Baldwin, the Vaqueros’ setter.
The Warriors found their groove after that and turned around a five-point deficit, winning the second set, 25-21.
The EC men’s volleyball team (10-8, 7-4) plowed its way through the unsuspecting SBCC Vaqueros (9-9, 4-7) in a straight-set sweep (25-22, 25-21, 25-15) on Friday night.
Although there is a small chance El Camino does not make playoffs, Blount is already focused on the team’s in playoffs.
“I’m glad we won,” EC head coach Dick Blount said. “(We) need to keep things in perspective (if we want to win it all). We have four ridiculously hard matches in row. We have Santa Monica, then we would go to Golden West and if we win that, we’d go to Long Beach (all with better records).”
Blount added the team needs to not mess around and finish games that are in its favor.
“Defensively tonight, we played our best all season long,” sophomore libero Andre Labayan said. “I think it was just communication and the block being set up pretty well.”
The Warriors will host Santa Monica College on Wednesday at 6 p.m. in the South Gym for their regular-season finale and sophomore night.