Between Monday\u2019s practice and Tuesday\u2019s CIF State Girls Volleyball Championship Division 2 first-round match, Westview\u2019s No. 2 option on offense \u2014 Gabrielle Ngo \u2014 hurt her shoulder.<\/p>\n
The senior setter Angeline Nguyen, who has been playing with a torn ACL all season, was knocked out of the match in set No. 3 for a brief period when she planted awkwardly.<\/p>\n
The normally efficient Wolverines hit -.100 for the match and committed 27 unforced errors.<\/p>\n
Combine all those factors with the fact that the No. 2-seed Wolverines haven\u2019t won a match in nearly four weeks, and the result Tuesday was a flat 25-14, 25-14, 25-10 loss to visiting Dana Point Dana Hills, the 15 seed.<\/p>\n
\u201cBasically, it\u2019s Vivian (Roberts) and (Ngo) as our biggest offense,\u201d Westview coach Nancy Ros said. \u201cIt changed the dynamics of the whole offense. It\u2019s a little awkward because it\u2019s not our normal lineup, and we just made simple errors.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dana Hills (15-13) will return to the county Thursday, this time for a shorter trip as seventh-seeded Carlsbad (25-9) will host the Dolphins at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, the host Lancers beat Pacific Palisades Palisades, 25-11, 25-18, 23-25, 25-23.<\/p>\n
Roberts was outstanding in her final match of an inspiring four-year career. She\u2019ll head to Boise State in the fall to play beach volleyball.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat ending wasn\u2019t what we wanted, but coming from last year when we lost almost all of our starters, we didn\u2019t know how this year was going to go,\u201d said Roberts, who finished with a match-high nine kills. \u201cPlaying so well and exceeding all expectations that we had. I\u2019m super proud of everyone. Everyone really stepped up this year, and we did great just coming as a team together and playing together.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ngo started but was clearly hampered and finished with just one kill. Junior middle Peyton Erickson chipped in with six kills, two stuff blocks and an ace.<\/p>\n
Sophomore outside Lucy Tellers contributed four kills and two aces and sophomore pin Alani Mata\u2019afa and Roberts\u2019 sophomore sister Violet each added two stuff blocks.<\/p>\n
Back-to-back kills from Viv Roberts kept the Wolverines within five midway through the first set, but the hosts made four errors on the Dolphins\u2019 final six points. Westview made 11 errors in that first set.<\/p>\n
The second set was much of the same. Westview took its first and only lead of the match on an Erickson block and a Tellers ace to go up 3-2. Erickson\u2019s ace made it 16-15 Dana Point, but the visitors scored six of the next seven.<\/p>\n
Seven errors awaited Westview in a third set in which they got to within two points just once.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just happy we even got to this point of being in state again and being able to be in a position where we could have gone all the way,\u201d said Nguyen, who tore her left ACL in July and made the decision to play with it and delay surgery until December. \u201cEveryone on the team is my close friend. It had a bigger impact on me than I thought it would.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Wolverines were one of two teams \u2014 the other was Cathedral Catholic \u2014 to take a set off Torrey Pines this season. They yet again cemented their spot in the ultra-competitive Open Division.<\/p>\n
A loss Tuesday doesn\u2019t damper the accomplishments of seniors Viv Roberts, Nguyen and defensive specialist Peyton Jensen.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s bittersweet obviously, because four years I\u2019ve been with them,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cFour years, we\u2019ve always been together on a team. And to leave with them, it\u2019s sad, but we left a mark. We did good. I was happy to do it with them.\u201d<\/p>\n
If wins and losses don\u2019t define this group\u2019s legacy, certainly what they\u2019ve overcome to get here does.<\/p>\n
Nguyen played through what is sometimes a career-ending injury. Roberts lost her father to a long battle with cancer the summer before her junior year. And Jensen\u2019s father battled and beat cancer in the last couple years.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve been through things; like real-life things,\u201d an emotional Ros said. \u201cAnd they\u2019ve maintained such great attitudes. So we\u2019ll miss them. It\u2019s a good group.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Between Monday\u2019s practice and Tuesday\u2019s CIF State Girls Volleyball Championship Division 2 first-round match, Westview\u2019s No. 2 option…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":373279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3102,1370,3549,7264,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-373278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-high-school-sports","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115535256190026498","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}