2008 Woodie Awards
Volleyball drops third straight
By Haley Gaidosh
Rocket Contributor
Issue date: 9/21/07 Section: Sports
The rebuilding process for the Rock volleyball team is proving to be a longer and more difficult challenge than expected.
After Saturday's loss against Edinboro and Tuesday's loss against Lock Haven, the Rock sits at 0-3 in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference-West and 8-6 overall.
Even after a three-game losing streak, Head Coach Laurie Lokash believes in her team and still expects it to get the job done.
"They are looking at the glass half-empty right now and playing with doubt," Lokash said. "But I am not."
The Rock has been struggling of late. It lost all three games in a recent match-up with Edinboro, but Lokash is not quick to take anything away from the Fighting Scots.
"They played well and took advantage of our mistakes and our lack of aggression," she said. "Edinboro has some very good hitters, and if we don't take them out of their offense by serving aggressively, they have the ability to put the ball away."
The inability to serve and pass successfully played a major part in the loss against Edinboro.
"From a passing standpoint, since we did not serve receive well, we did not get quality swings and gave Edinboro easy balls to convert," Lokash said. "When that happens, the result is the same as when we don't serve effectively."
Junior Anastasia Urbanik, who had six kills at Edinboro, knows what it is like to have a winning team, and feels the frustration of this season more and more as it wears on.
"We were coming off the best season in 10 years, and now this," Urbanik said. "We had and still do have much higher expectations."
Urbanik agreed that the passing and serve receiving was not good at Edinboro, but the issue with the setting still played a big role in the Rock's struggles.
"Even when there is a good pass, the setters are still struggling with which person to set and seeing the court," Urbanik said. "As a team, we need to get the concepts together and become more disciplined."
After Saturday's loss against Edinboro and Tuesday's loss against Lock Haven, the Rock sits at 0-3 in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference-West and 8-6 overall.
Even after a three-game losing streak, Head Coach Laurie Lokash believes in her team and still expects it to get the job done.
"They are looking at the glass half-empty right now and playing with doubt," Lokash said. "But I am not."
The Rock has been struggling of late. It lost all three games in a recent match-up with Edinboro, but Lokash is not quick to take anything away from the Fighting Scots.
"They played well and took advantage of our mistakes and our lack of aggression," she said. "Edinboro has some very good hitters, and if we don't take them out of their offense by serving aggressively, they have the ability to put the ball away."
The inability to serve and pass successfully played a major part in the loss against Edinboro.
"From a passing standpoint, since we did not serve receive well, we did not get quality swings and gave Edinboro easy balls to convert," Lokash said. "When that happens, the result is the same as when we don't serve effectively."
Junior Anastasia Urbanik, who had six kills at Edinboro, knows what it is like to have a winning team, and feels the frustration of this season more and more as it wears on.
"We were coming off the best season in 10 years, and now this," Urbanik said. "We had and still do have much higher expectations."
Urbanik agreed that the passing and serve receiving was not good at Edinboro, but the issue with the setting still played a big role in the Rock's struggles.
"Even when there is a good pass, the setters are still struggling with which person to set and seeing the court," Urbanik said. "As a team, we need to get the concepts together and become more disciplined."
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