Shown a yellow caution card-a rarity for the program-after frustration boiled over and led her to slam the ball disgustedly to the floor after a mistake late in Game 3 Tuesday night, junior Maddi Foutz embodied the growing pains that re-tooling Bayfield Volleyball might have to endure for a while. Meanwhile interstate rivals Piedra Vista, besides being the root cause of BHS' shaky showing inside Jerry A. Conner Fieldhouse, appeared more the 'Bayfield' the Wolverines have been and are again striving to be. "Everyone was so jittery.because we're such a young team and we don't have 'that' right now," concurred sophomore setter Sydney Gabbard after the clash down in Farmington, N.M. "We came into the game with intimidation; we didn't play like we know how to play," agreed varsity newcomer Ashley Mottin. "The scoreboard didn't resemble how we can play." The Panthers swept the games, winning 25-12, 25-18 and 25-9.
Starting the match on a 5-1 run, Piedra Vista simplay had Bayfield disorganized and off their game, othern than a confident 3-0 opening in Game 2.
"We were tring to keep a positive attitude because we've come up from games like that," said sophomore Sydney Gabbard. "We had faster defense and everybody really took control. Everybody was really thinking about each other, everybody was on thir toes and I though it was great!"
A Mottin kill, Gabbard ace and Foutz kill of PV were quickly offset by a lenghty Gabbard serve, a PV mash through the middle and a BHS serve-recpetion error.
BHS did fight back to 16-16 in Game 2, but PV answered back just as they had in Game 1 when the score was 8-8.
Now 2-4 for the year, BHS took their home court last night against Durango after the Times went to press.
They travelled to the Lewis-Palmer Invitational on Sept. 5 in Monument, losing three games and winning one against 5A Aurora Central.
