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BHS girls take league title early
Written by: Joel Preist
10/26/2012
BHS girls take league title early
‘Passive’ resistance last Saturday made for the most unusual match Bayfield had seen yet in 2012.
“Alamosa had a great game plan,” said head coach Kelley Rifilato Monday night, drained after personally inserting herself into her team’s practice scrimmages. “‘Disruptive’ was a nice word for it.”
Had Amy Ortega’s Mean Moose not been facing defenders like BHS seniors Jordyn Harrison, Layne Bulwan and Lindsey Reinmuth—53 digs between them—the ploy likely would have worked. Rifilato noted that three stone-cold combination rejections by Kirstie Hillyer and Kayla J. McCoy opening the 3A Intermountain action quickly told AHS they’d have to flip their script—and fast.
“Maybe had like five real ‘kill’ swings all night,” Rifilato recalled, lamenting a 20-25 Set 1 loss. “Never hit the ball down; they tipped, roll shot-ted. Definitely something we hadn’t experienced.”
“We never really got in a flow.”
But in hopes of becoming the only team besides Farmington, New Mexico’s 4A Piedra Vista to deal the Lady Wolverines defeat, Alamosa stumbled and ultimately fell 3-1 as Bayfield clinched another league title following a 32-30 Set 4 win (after taking Set 2 25-20 and Set 3 25-17).
Moved back out to the right in a decisive shift late in the fight, senior Jennifer Phelps bashed a team high 23 kills against just four errors in 50 attempts. Hillyer downed 14 against three in her 31 tries, and also landed four service aces, totaled five blocks and came up with five digs.
Bulwan (15 digs) totaled five blocks (three solo) and three aces, and McCoy booked seven kills as sophomore Suzie Rhodes (seven digs) distributed 44 assists. Harrison came up with 22 digs and Reinmuth 16 for BHS (16-2 overall, 7-0 IML), which wrapped up its circuit slate last night versus Monte Vista.
“They’re never to be overlooked,” said Rifilato of the 1-17, 0-7 Lady Pirates. “Nothing to lose.”
Results were unavailable at press time, as Bayfield’s spikers were already prepping and packing for today’s long haul and tomorrow’s Palmer Ridge Invitational in Monument, north of Colorado Springs. In the 12-team event, the Lady Wolverines—joined in representing Class 3A by MVHS and Greeley’s University—received the #1 seed…as well as Highlands Ranch right off the bat.
“In pool play it’s two-of-three, to 25 in all three, and our goal is to get to the third [with HRHS],” Rifilato stated, noting strength-of-schedule benefits ripe for the gaining. “If we don’t win outright in two.”
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