LIHUE — Kapaa High School girls volleyball improved to five wins following the Lady Warriors’ 3-0 win over Kauai High School on Tuesday during the Kauai Interscholastic Federation girls volleyball games played at the new Kauai High School Gym.
Waimea High School girls volleyball improved to 3-2 following its five-set win over the Island School Voyagers in contests waged at the Clem Gomes Gym in Waimea.
During the junior varsity match, the JV Menehune dropped its first set, 23-25, before coming back to take the second and third matches, 25-17, and 15-10 over the JV Voyagers.
The varsity Menehune had to battle back from an 18-25 opening loss to the Voyagers, taking the second set, 25-21 before wobbling to Island School, 18-25 in the third set. With their backs to the wall, the Menehune knotted the night with a 25-16 win over the Voyagers to force the fifth set tiebreaker. Waimea broke the 2-2 stalemate with a comfortable 15-7 win.
Kauai High School girls stayed close, and in the third set, forced lead exchanges against Kapaa before falling to the Warriors, 17-25, 16-25, and 20-25.
The Lady Warriors include eight seniors, and two of them — Carlyn Kamoku and Ku‘uipo Hunt — were instrumental in setting the game’s pace with their hitting.
Both teams stayed close in the opening match until the Warriors, holding a 14-13 edge, pulled ahead to 20-13 on hits by Kamoku, Jennifer Guerin, and Raider hitting miscues. Kapaa sealed the deal from the 22-16 mark on hits by Khloe Grove, Kamoku and more Raider court miscues.
Following two sets where the Raiders were chasing, Kauai entered the third set where the Raider wahine either tied, or took the lead, before the Warriors surged to the finish.
A Kapaa block gave the Warriors an 11-10 edge only to have Kauai answer with a Leila Caoagas bang to a 12-11 edge, Kapaa’s Maka Rivera made it 14-12, and back-to-back Warrior missteps knotted the contest, 15-15. From that point, Kapaa limped to eight points while limiting Kauai to just four marks for the 25-20 final.
With the win, Kapaa hosts Waimea High School on Friday at the Bernice Hundly Gym where the JV contest serves up from 5 p.m. followed by the first serve in the varsity match going 25 minutes following the 3-set JV games.
Kauai High School will travel to the Wilcox Gymnasium to face Island School.
Source: The Garden Island
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