By CONSTANCIO MARTINEZ, JR.
Staff Writer
On Monday, Aug. 12, the Port Isabel Lady Tarpons volleyball team hosted the San Perlita Lady Trojans in the Lady Tarpons season’s opener.
The Lady Tarpons got off to a great start in the best-of-five series. In the first set, they jumped up to a 2-0 lead before the Lady Trojans tied the game up at 2-2. Junior Nadia Flaig got a big spike at the net to give the Lady Tarpons a 3-2 lead.
The Lady Tarpons went on a 6-0 scoring streak behind the serving of Desiree Vidaurri and Flaig defending at the net. Flaig, who joined the varsity squad as a freshman, utilized her length to score several points at the net as the Lady Tarpons jumped out to a 9-2 lead.
The Lady Trojans eventually got the ball back on a misplay by the Lady Tarpons. The Lady Trojans then went on a 3-0 run before giving the ball back to PI with the score now 9-5 in favor of the Lady Tarpons.
With Port Isabel’s Flaig serving the ball, the Lady Tarpons went on a 10-0 run to go up with a commanding 19-5 lead.
The teams then went back and forth until San Perlita managed to go on a small 4-0 run, forcing PI to call a timeout as PI held onto a 23-13 lead.
With PI up 24-15, San Perlita could not return a spike ball by PI’s Hanna Mata and the Lady Tarpons took the first set, 25-15.
Unfortunately, the Lady Tarpons had some miscues in the next sets as the Lady Trojans came back to win the next three sets, 25-19, 25-21 and 25-23 to win the series.
The Lady Tarpons’ next game will be at home against the Raymondville Lady Bearkats on Aug. 20th with a 7 p.m. game start.
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