Warriors Lose in Five at Elma

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The Rochester volleyball team took two sets but couldn’t take three Tuesday, falling to 1A Elma 17-25, 30-28, 25-21, 15-25, 15-8 in non-league play.

“It wasn’t anything we did wrong, they just buried the ball more than we did,” Rochester coach Bridget Morris said. “But the girls fought hard all night.”

After taking the first set, the Warriors found themselves in a war of a second, going point-for-point late with the Eagles until the hosts finally pulled out a win deep into extra points. From there, Elma rode momentum in the third set, though Rochester bounced back to stave off the loss with a win in the fourth.

The Warriors’ luck ran out in the fifth, though, with Morris noting that her side – which was playing its second match in as many nights – started to lose a bit of gas.

Roisin Stull led the Warriors with 11 kills, while Delany Winter had seven.



“The numbers didn’t always show it, but our defense was really good, and our setters had really good defense too,” Morris said.

One focus from here on out on defense for Rochester will be at the net. Morris said that the Warriors have gotten better at getting up to block attacks enough to tip them, but not quite enough to send them back, leaving the defense scrambling to cover.

“The block, we’ve been working on that, and then just a little bit of coverage stuff,” she said. “But I think for the most part, we’re there, it’s just the fine details that we’re going to clean up a little bit as we go into the season.”

Rochester (1-5) will get a much-deserved light day at practice, before taking on Aberdeen on Thursday.