Serving helps McAlester volleyball top Noble

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Precious Crawford tips the ball over to win Set 5 and the McAlester-Noble volleyball match Thursday evening at Bob Brumley Gymnasium. Staff photo by MATT GOISMAN
McAlester outside hitter Loretta Medina sets the ball over the net during the fifth set of Thursday’s volleyball match against Noble at Bob Brumley Gymnasium. Staff photo by MATT GOISMAN
McAlester right-side hitter Kelsey Roberson serves during the fifth set of the Lady Buffaloes’ match against the Noble Bears Thursday at Bob Brumley Gymnasium. Staff photo by MATT GOISMAN

August 9, 2012

Serving helps McAlester volleyball top Noble

By Matt Goisman Sports Writer The McAlester News-Capital Thu Aug 09, 2012, 11:46 PM CDT

McALESTER — Every volleyball play begins with the serve. It makes everything else — the digs, the sets, the spikes, the blocks — possible, and without it, a team can’t score.

Such wasn’t the case for McAlester Thursday, where the Lady Buffaloes served up 17 aces, propelling them to a season-opening five-set victory over the Noble Bears at Bob Brumley Gymnasium. The scores were 25-22, (25-18), 24-13, (25-21), 15-11.

“Everything started with our serves,” said MHS coach Chad Waller. “Our serves came in, it was just like we had a whole different mentality on this side of the net that even if we had a long rally that lasted forever, we were coming out the winner of it.”

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