Lady Cards sweep past Lady Cats

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Lady Cards sweep past Lady Cats

Gabriel Pruett

The Orange Leader

ORANGEFIELD — Fortunately for the Orangefield Lady Bobcats it is still early in District 21-3A play.

Unfortunately for the Lady Bobcats they ran into a red-hot Bridge City Lady Cardinals team still undefeated in the district standings.

Bridge City (13-11, 6-0) were relentless at Bobcat Gym and won the match 25-10, 25-12 and 25-18.

With the loss Orangefield drops to 10-13 overall and 3-3 in the district loop.

The Lady Bobcats were hanging around in Game 3 and had pulled momentum their way when Allie Beach came up with a block on Bridge City Audrey Myers to make the score 24-18.

Unfortunately again for Orangefield, Bridge City’s Emily Kosh set Myers up the next play and Myers’ shot found the court for her 13th save of the night, which led all hitters.

The road was tough sledding for Orangefield in the first two games as Bridge City continued its stellar first-half district play.

Kayla Fullerton, who had six kills for the Lady Cardinals, took serve with Bridge City up 5-2 and left with the Lady Cardinals up 10-2. The run included two aces from Fullerton. In all Bridge City had 16 aces.

While Bridge City’s offense was rolling, its defense was also on point as senior Jenna Angelle had 16 digs.

“This feels great,†Jenna Angelle said. “It is undescribable to come in to Orangefield and win in three games.â€

Lauren Angelle pumped in six kills for the Lady Cardinals while Myers added nine assists and six aces. Sophomore Emily Kosh had a match-high 17 assists.

Orangefield as led by Jessica Maass who finished with four kills and Aimee Scales and Laura Riddick who each had three.

Senior Kaylin “KK†Little had a team-high five assists.

“We had so many mental errors tonight,†Orangefield Coach Linda Riddick said. “Tonight we played unlike we have played all year. I knew we would have some growing pains but I did not expect all of them to show up tonight.â€

Bridge City was able to take advantage of 11 Orangefield errors in the first game to win 25-10.

Kosh got the Lady Cardinals going in the second game with the game tied at one.

Kosh went on a tear with 10 straight service points which included two aces.

The Lady Cardinals put the second game on ice as Fullerton hit for four straight service points to end it as the last three Lady Bobcat shots found the net. Bridge City won the second game 25-12.

Orangefield did hang around in the third and could never grab a lead.

Lauren Angelle got the Lady Cardinals off to a good start with three straight service points.

With Bridge City up 8-6, Myers came to serve and gave the Lady Cardinals a little breathing room with five straight service points, including three consecutive aces making it 13-6.

Kosh later on all but put the match with five straight points making it 23-13 before Orangefield made a run.

The margin was too large even after Beach’s block.

“I know Orangefield is a lot better than they played tonight,†Bridge City Coach Becca Mathews said. “I wanted to see the same intensity all night and we kind of let up in the third. I am still very, very proud of them. We only have one more to go to stay undefeated in the first half of district.â€

Jenna Angelle knows the Lady Cardinals are ready for the next challenge.

“I am very happy about this team,†Angelle said. “We work so hard in practice. All we have to do is keep working hard and carrying it over to the matches.â€

The Lady Bobcats return to action Friday when they travel to Silsbee. Bridge City will hit the road to face Hardin-Jefferson on Friday.

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Lets stick to the topic of this thread!

[glove4x]

Congratulations BC.  Best BC team I have seen in years. You all played really well together.  Good Luck

[revfaulk]

what no more short talk!? oh well i guess it's back to volleyball talk.

is there ra team in district that is going to push them to 5 games this year?

(they might have already gone 5 games with a district opponent, but i am not aware of it. i haven't been able to keep up with them much this year.)

[Gabe]

They have not went to five yet in district

[Guest bleed orange]

Bridge City looked good the other night but on the flip side we made them look good. Orangefield looked like they never played volleyball before. I know, some of that had to do with the way Bridge City was playing. Like I said before, I don't know if we can beat them on our best day. Bridge City looked like an well oiled machine. I did not think the thread was that bad. We were all joking around at the end but apparently someone said some negative things and WHAM they deleted the longest thread in the volleyball fourm history! THE SHORTS, THE SHORTS, THE SHORTS ARE ON FIRE ;D

[East TX]

As I see it--BC has a great Coach who is getting them ready for playoffs,  They have bigger and stronger prime athletes who can play most any sport.  The work ethics is strong in all sports and activities that they chose to participate.

If Samantha and Brittney James make it back before playoffs they may do even better.

The spikes are getting torrid-- driving the opponent arms back on impact.  That can make a difference against top level teams.

[Guest bleed orange]

I agree BC does have a good coach. BC is also in the first half  beating teams convincingly. I don't know if thats a good or bad thing. Its good because the first goal set is to win district and they are on their way to setting that goal. On the flip side what if the district is weak this year? I believe it to be so. I hope I am wrong. I can not remember the last time the golden triangle had a state championship team in volleyball or even at the state tournament. 

We have some really good teams and programs in the golden triangle. But I don't know if we are at that top level yet. Maybe BC can change that, I hope so.