Coaches fume after the 7th/8th grade's latest performance

It's not often following a decisive win, at least on the scoreboard, that a team's coaches are furious with the way their team had performed.

But that was the case with the 7th/8th grade volleyball team's win Thursday night.

One coach even said that if tonight's performance translates to Friday night, the 7th/8th grade girls will "have no chance" in beating the top team in the division.

Besides a handful of girls, the bulk of the 7th/8th grade team sleepwalked through the entire game. If it wasn't for the opposition making mistakes, this would not have been a win.

The blame for the lack of motivation in tonight's game cannot be placed on the shoulders of Cynthia, who was named to the CYO Achievement Game earlier in the day.

She was the one person on the team trying to rally the troops, fire them up, play Hunter Pence of the team.

But her efforts fell on deaf ears as nobody followed her lead and instead let her do all the heavy lifting.

After winning the first set, the girls fell behind in the second set, and it took 10 saves from Victoria to bail out a lot of the bad mistakes the rest of the team made.

Aside from Victoria, Ivy and Cynthia, the coaches were not pleased with anybody else's performance.

They will need to shake their bad performance off and bring their best Friday night, because it will be one versus two in a battle of 1st and 2nd place. A win can force a tie-breaker for the division crown, while a loss will cement the 7th/8th graders in second place.

At (6-1), they have a chance to clinch the best St. Mary's volleyball regular season record in the school's modern history with a win.

But if Thursday night was any indication of how they perform Friday night, that record will not be broken.