BOSTON – In what ended up being a clear sweep, O’Bryant took house the Boston City League championship for the second straight season.
The Tigers solely trailed twice and actually buckled down when essential to win 3-0 over Latin Academy at Madison Park on Wednesday afternoon.
“This is one of the goals,” stated O’Bryant coach Paul Pitts-Dilley. “Even though it is just the city championship, it is still a championship. This is a big deal, but there are more goals that we need to work on … I’m happy, but there are more things that we need to accomplish.”
O’Bryant (16-3), which swept the season collection towards Latin Academy (15-5) with all three being 3-0 victories, has one remaining tuneup towards final yr’s state runner-up North Quincy on Thursday evening.
In the primary set, the groups had been twisted up 5-5 earlier than O’Bryant took over the match with a 20-10 run to win the primary set 25-15 as three totally different gamers notched kills, with Narsjo and Desmond Ugoji every amassing 4.
Even with a 5-0 benefit within the second set, the Tigers and Dragons nonetheless performed shut all through the second set as 5 gamers recorded a kill for O’Bryant in a powerful 25-18 victory.
In the ultimate set, the Tigers had been down 6-5 early earlier than roaring again to go on a 20-14 run to win the third set 25-20 with 4 gamers recording kills.
It was senior Jonathan Narsjo main the best way as he tallied 12 kills with 4 in every set.
“For the last three years, every time that we needed a kill, everyone is like ‘Oh, give it to Jonathan,’ ” Paul Pitts-Dilley stated concerning the senior. “He calms us down. It is not always a kill, but most likely in the big play it is (one). In crunch time we want the ball in his hands.”
Senior setter Son Nguyen led the workforce with 30 of the workforce’s 36 assists within the match.
“This year our team has been a lot more balanced than in past years,” Narsjo stated about coming collectively as a unit. “I’m really appreciative of that. “We have a lot more pieces that a lot of people don’t even know about. When teams scout us, they think it is Jonathan and Son, but with a lot of teams we are winning those games because they don’t see who we exactly have on our team.”
Narsjo is one in every of 12 seniors on the squad.
“It’s been a long time (playing with Nguyen),” stated Narsjo about having the ability to play alongside the Boston City League MVP. “We both started playing volleyball the exact same day. It was just me and him playing on police barricades as a makeshift net and that is how we started. We also have this great team of guys. (Nguyen) is an amazing guy and he works hard. He has really transformed into a really strong leader for this team.”
Narsjo is happy concerning the veteran presence on the squad with the state match looming.
“I think it shows that we have a lot of experience on the court,” stated Narsjo. “It’s not a lot of naive plays and stuff. It’s been the same 12 guys for four years now.”
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