The Pierce Men’s Volleyball team travels to Moorpark College to compete in another volleyball match on April 9. As the season nears its conclusion, the team loses the match with a final score of 3-0.
The Brahmas showed considerable improvement compared to their previous game. Despite a slow start, Head Coach Joseph Arechiga and the team are making progress and starting to believe in their ability to compete with top teams in the state.
“I wish a few things would have gone our way here and there, but we pushed them, we challenged them and I’m proud of what we did,” Arechiga said. “It’s the mental consistency when things aren’t going our way.”
Toward the end of the first set, the game transformed into an intense back-and-forth competition, and although Pierce stayed resilient, ultimately Moorpark College claimed a 25-18 win.
Setter Karl Manalong recognized the tight margin of victory as the team gradually built momentum in the second set.
“We started really low at first and then just gradually went up and up,” Manalong said. “If we rode the energy, the third set would have been ours, fourth set, and maybe fifth set.”
Moorpark College won 25-18 in the third set, ending the game. Opposite hitter Sam Henry feels he could have done more and thinks the team could have contributed more, but they had a few lapses and things didn’t go as planned for the Brahmas.
“Volleyball to me is like a game of tug of war, and the thing about tug of war is the second you lose your grip, you lose,” Henry said. “So we lost our grip, we let it get away from us and we just kept losing and they kept pulling and pulling until the game was over.”
The Brahmas finished their season at Santa Barbara on April 11, with a loss of 3-1.
