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In their sixth game of the regular season, the Lady Rangers kept their chances for an undefeated season alive after fending off the Trinity Tigers in three of four games Nov. 12 in Candler.
With the Lady Rangers struggling with team cohesiveness in the beginning of the season, coach Marisa Martinez said her team “finally found it” in the two previous wins against Northwest Vista College Oct. 29 and Palo Alto College Nov. 5.
“We shouldn’t have let them go to four games,” Martinez said.
Martinez said she hoped the team could play its best during the game against Trinity. But the Tigers wouldn’t make it easy for the Lady Rangers.
Neither team led by a great margin in the first game, and both scored mostly off defensive returns. But the Lady Rangers managed to pull ahead on a 6-0 run in the final moments, winning 25-19.
The Lady Rangers began the second game with an early lead, but Trinity picked up their play and went on a 10-0 run, leading 11-6 and never looking back, taking the set 25-13.
“Trinity has improved a lot,” Martinez said during the break.
The third game was a hard-fought contest, with the Lady Rangers holding a lead halfway through before the Tigers took it back on a 12-4 run to lead 21-16.
The Lady Rangers stepped up their offense while holding the Tigers to only 1 point before game-end. Nursing sophomore Isabel Rios made several kills in a rally to win the set 25-22. Led by American Sign Language sophomore Stephanie Muñoz’s seven kills and communications sophomore Nicole Plata’s six, the fourth game was won in typical Lady Rangers style, Martinez said, with a 25-16 margin. “They always joke about winning the last game,” she said. “Do we have to? Yeah.”
For their last game of the season, the Lady Rangers will visit the St. Philip’s College Tigers at 7 p.m. Dec. 3 at the college, 1801 Martin Luther King Drive.
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