ROXBURY — If there are two issues which might be most in step with the O’Bryant boys volleyball crew early on this season, it’s the Tigers’ sturdy play when closing out a set; and that senior setter Son Nguyen will get the correct characters going for the crew’s greatest probability at successful.
Both confirmed in full kind Thursday afternoon, as Nguyen dished out 28 assists to assist No. 5 O’Bryant (7-1) overcome a resilient No. 20 Lincoln-Sudbury crew for a 3-0 (25-22, 26-24, 25-17) nonleague win. Not one participant accrued double-digit kills, as Nguyen unfold the wealth past typical premier hitter Jonathan Narsjo, who couldn’t get going till the ultimate set towards the Warriors’ blockers.
That distribution coupled properly with the group’s 11 aces, which it used for the ultimate level in two separate units to carry off some vicious Lincoln-Sudbury rallies.
“That, I really love about our boys. Closing plays, we are winning,” mentioned O’Bryant head coach Paul Pitts-Dilley. “When we are playing our game, we’re playing great volleyball. … Something I’m not ashamed to say that we need to work on (though) is that I don’t think we have played yet, first set to last set, our best volleyball. We are winning and the boys seem to step up at the end of sets, but if we don’t correct this by the end of the year, we are going to pay a price in a June match.”
With Lincoln-Sudbury making an attempt out a 6-2 system round Timmy Kearney (10 assists, three kills) and Oscar Klappenbach (11 assists, 4 kills) for the primary time, the Tigers feasted on rhythms that produced 5 completely different 4-0 runs. That included a 7-0 begin to the opening body, which escalated to a lead as massive as 14-4 at one level as Nathan Tan (4 aces, six kills) and Ayman Blanco (three aces) discovered flaws within the serve-receive.
Building leads wasn’t a lot of a difficulty for O’Bryant in any set, with Ziyou Zhang (eight kills), Desmond Ugoji (5 kills, three blocks), Ashton Mei (4 kills) and Narsjo (5 kills) all chipping in.
“Once we get everyone hot, everyone’s on their toes, everyone’s swinging, putting the ball away; I don’t think we’re stoppable,” Nguyen mentioned. “A triple block on (Narsjo) just means an open net for (Zhang) on the right side. That’s the thing about our team, it’s not not just one player. It’s not a one-man show, we have a full team.”
Instead, sustaining these leads was the problem.
Whenever the Warriors re-found their focus, they’d battle again simply as fiercely as they fell. Kieran Fagan (9 kills), Sebastiano D’Ambrosio (4 kills) and Hogan Flechtner performed vital roles alongside Klappenbach and Kearney to pressure a 23-22 deficit within the first and a good 24-24 rating within the second.
The gradual begins and massive runs from O’Bryant had been simply an excessive amount of to beat, nevertheless. A pair of errors helped the Tigers take the primary set, and Zhang struck for a kill and an ace to shut the second. The third didn’t have as a lot drama when closing it out.
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