Volleyball Seasons Ends For Bucklin Junior High

The Bucklin Junior High volleyball team competed in the League Tournament
hosted in Bucklin on Monday, October 20th. The Lady Deuces were seeded
third with a 3-2 record. Ashland had the #1 seed at 5-0 and Greensburg was
the second seed at 3-2.

The Deuces opened pool play against the South Central Timberwolves. A new
lineup was on the floor as two regular season players were absent. Nerves
seemed to dominate the game early as the Deuces fell behind in game one 1 –
11. Although they continued to play hard they couldn’t make up the large
deficit and lost game 1, 18-25. In the second game they were more focused
to play and won (25-19) on a late scoring run by 8th grader Kaysha .The 3rd and decisive game was a close contest with the Deuces losing by a
score of 17-25.

Ten minutes following their opening match, the Deuces had to play another
game, this time against the Greensburg Rangers. The Deuces knew they had to
win in order to have a shot at the championship match. They came out ready
to play and won the opening game 25 – 23 behind the 6 services points of
Madison. The second game was also close (14-18) when the Rangers
went on a 7-point scoring run to close out the game 14 – 25. Mental and
physical fatigue set in and in game three of the match the Deuces were
defeated 10-25.

The Deuces concluded their season with a 4-5 record. Ten 8th graders played
their final match as a Lady Deuce Monday night.