Boo-Yah, Team Jesse Parker take intramural titles
by Jordan Dahl
staff writer
The fall season of volleyball intramurals concluded in a dramatic fashion Wednesday night at the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum.
Boo-Yah 3, Blackout 1
After a four-set thriller which saw both teams scrapping and diving all over the court, team Boo-Yah won the women’s intramural volleyball championship match in a nail-biting four-set match over Blackout.
The Boo-Yahs raced to a quick two-set lead, 25-22 and 25-19, but lost the third set 9-15 before closing out the victory with a 20-18 win in the fourth.
“It feels great,” said Boo-Yah outside hitter Dixie Loveless. “We’ve played intramurals for three years now and won four times, so it’s good.”
The Spectrum provided an opportunity for the teams to play on a full-size court, making the game that much more challenging and giving the players a fun conclusion to the season.
“It’s super quiet in the Spectrum when there’s nobody here,” said Hailey Summers, a Boo-Yah senior majoring in mechanical engineering. “Our key was just to stay loud. It was fun playing here.”
Jesse Parker 3, Boo-Yah 2
Despite a game-delaying power outage at the Spectrum, Team Jesse Parker dominated the final set to win the intramural co-ed volleyball championship over Wednesday night.
Team Jesse Parker defeated Boo-Yah 25-23, 22-25, 15-8, 14-16, 15-5.
The lights turned off in the Spectrum during a fourth-set run by The Parkers, but it wasn’t enough to take away their moxie.
Led by KC Sorensen, whose hand-blistering spikes and stone-wall blocks gave his team a huge lift, Team Jesse Parker overcame its mistakes and sealed the championship in the decisive fifth set.
“Playing with the lights on,” said the junior majoring in biology when asked what the key to closing out the game was. “We’ve been here before and we’ll be here again.”
The game had its moments of back-and-forth play, with each team scoring in spurts.
Team Jesse Parker had just enough in the tank when it mattered most.
“We were just playing hard and as a team,” said Katelin Robins, a senior majoring in FCHD. “We’ve taken second before and that wasn’t going to happen again. We won in the spring, but came back for more in the fall.”
Robins said she plans to wear her championship T-shirt often.
“I’ll probably wear it tomorrow,” Robins said.
– j.dahl@aggiemail.usu.edu
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