The GACC Volleyball Team swept Oakland-Craig 3-0 in the C2-5 Sub-District Tournament at Pender Monday night in action heard on 107.9 the Bull before dropping Tuesday night's Sub-District Final to Wisner-Pilger, 3-1.
The Bluejays took set one from the Knights 25-17, and sets two and three 25-18.
Sophia Hass led GACC with 13 kills and 14 digs while Hanna Knobbe and Ally Plagge notched 21 and 20 digs, respectively. Megan Plagge added 16 digs while Reece Snodgrass registered 29 set assists.
Head Coach Kate Hagemann on the win. "Yeah I was really happy just kind of with our consistency tonight. We've talked kind of all week going into this game how when you go to postseason you just can't be too high or too low. And teams are going to go on runs, and we're going to go on runs, but you just can't overreact to anything that happens. And I thought we did a really good job of that. Just being steady every set. Oakland went on their runs. They're the type of team, she does a great job, you just know they're never going to give up. So even when you get a four-point lead, a six-point lead, you're still nervous on the bench because you know they're going to come and make some scrappy plays and some hustle plays."
The Gators won set one 25-19 and set two 25-16 before the Bluejays won set three 25-18 and lost set four 25-20.
Hass had 16 kills and 19 digs while Brooklyn Bailey totaled 12 kills. Evelyn Wooldrik added 9 kills and 8 blocks while Ally Plagge recorded 25 digs. Knobbe and Megan Plagge managed 23 and 21 digs, respectively, while Snodgrass notched 14 digs and 39 set assists.
I thought for a moment that GACC might come back and win it, but it wasn't meant to be.
The Bluejays conclude the 2018 campaign with a 12-16 record.
Probably not the type of season GACC would have liked from a win/loss record, but the Bluejays were very young this year.
Hass led the way in kills this season with 298 while Angela Jansen and Brooklyn Bailey totaled 113 and 106 blocks, respectively. Knobbe finished with 608 digs while Hass had 494. Snodgrass registered 480 set assists.
GACC graduates just two seniors in Ally Plagge and Jansen.
These two girls were very valuable members of the team over the last four years, and really put a lot of hard work into making this program what it is.
Key returners include Bailey, Wooldrik, Erica Engelmeyer, Knobbe, Megan Plagge, Meghan Brunsing, Snodgrass, and Hass.
Plenty of great talent returns for the Bluejays next season, and GACC should be a lot better next year.
The Bluejays were very young this year, and I think that's a reason why they lost to some of the teams they did.
Big wins on the season came against Wakefield-Allen, Oakland-Craig (twice), Wisner-Pilger, and Crofton.
GACC played a very tough schedule with the majority of their losses coming to teams with records above .500.
The Bluejays have a lot of work to do this offseason to get back to where this program wants to be once again though.
I know a lot of these girls play basketball and probably do track, but the more they work on Volleyball the better they're going to be next year.
GACC has to have a good basketball season, and get after things in that sport, and then do well in track as well, but be raring to go full bore with Volleyball after those two things are all said and done.
It might not hurt to play the game while those two other sports are going on too.
I look for the Bluejays to be a lot better next year than they were this year, and perhaps be able to win their Sub-District and make a Sub-State match and the State Tournament.
GACC has a lot of work to do this offseason for all those things to happen though.
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