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Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
LADY PROS
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They were neck and neck
the entire first set, with Imbler
winning 26-24.
Scores were close again in
the second set, Imbler taking a
25-21 win.
Senior Prospector Chelsie
Kodesh had 10 straight ser-
vice points near the close of
the third, and Grant Union won
25-14.
After a 20-20 tie in the
fourth, Grant Union moved
ahead three points, and the
teams tied again at 24-24, then
25-25.
Imbler then made two kills
for the win.
“We knew it would be dif-
ficult to beat them,” said Speth
after the game. “They’re a
strong team. It’s hard to beat a
good team over and over.”
The heartbroken team, and
fans, recuperated from the loss
to face their final opponent the
following day, competing for
third place.
Speth said the team’s perfor-
mance was greatly improved.
“In a matchup of the No.
The Eagle photos/Angel Carpenter
ABOVE: Grant Union Prospector Heather Mosley
rushes to make a save with her teammate Hailie
Wright at the ready in the game against Imbler. LEFT:
Grant Union Prospector Hailie Wright sends the
ball over the reach of Imbler’s Haley VanLeuven at
Friday’s semifinal game in Redmond. In back: Reagan
Shelley (8) and Grant Union head coach Shae Speth.
1 and No. 2 seeds, this was a
championship-level match, and
our team played at a champion-
ship level,” she said.
Grant Union won with
scores of 20-25, 25-23, 19-25,
25-19 and 15-11.
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“Culver’s outside hitters
were able to get kills on us ear-
ly, but by the second set, we
were able to read them well and
had an incredible 15 blocks for
the match,” Speth said. “Culver
is a great defensive team, so our
hitters had to hit much smarter
in order to score points. We
were much better on serve and
serve-receive than we were on
Friday night versus Imbler.”
Speth said it was good to
end the season with a win.
She said the seniors, Natalie
Stearns, Mosley and Chelsie
Kodesh, all stepped up their
play in the final match of their
high school careers.
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Grant Union tournament stats (13
sets):
Heather Mosley: 34 kills, 11 aces, 11 digs,
8 solo blocks, 9 block assists
Mariah Moulton: 33 kills, 9 aces, 97 per-
cent serving, 100 percent serve receive,
36 digs, 1 block assist
Chelsie Kodesh: 29 kills, 5 aces, 92
percent serving, 60 digs
Whitney McClellan: 3 aces, 31 digs
Reagan Shelley: 3 kills, 7 digs, 9 block
assists
Hailie Wright: 9 kills, 2 aces, 93 percent
serving, 101 set assists, 38 digs, 9 block
assists
Sydney Stearns: 8 aces, 93 percent
serving, 36 digs
Kaylee Wright: 18 kills, 6 digs, 7 solo
blocks, 10 block assists
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much defensively, and leads the
team with her communication
throughout each rally,” Speth
said. “She covers the court very
well.”
Stearns had eight aces in the
tournament, was 93 percent in
serving and had 36 digs.
Mosley, at 6 feet tall, had 34
kills, 11 aces, 11 digs, eight solo
blocks and nine block assists in
the tournament.
“Heather has become the
dominant middle in the state
this year, and she had a strong
game against Culver,” Speth
said. “Her serving has im-
proved much this season.”
Kodesh had 29 kills, five
aces, was 92 percent on serving
and had 60 digs, including 25 in
the Culver match.
“Chelsie anticipates, reads
and covers the floor so well de-
fensively,” the coach said. “She
is going to be greatly missed, not
just because of her contributions
skill-wise, but because of her
tremendous leadership every
day in practice and games.”
Junior Mariah Moulton was
named to the All-State Tourna-
ment first team.
She had 33 kills in the tour-
nament with nine aces and was
97 percent on serving and 100
percent on serve-receive with
36 digs and one block assist.
Mosley and sophomore
Hailie Wright were named to
the second team.
Hailie had 101 set assists in
the tournament, as well as nine
kills, two aces, 38 digs and nine
block assists. She also served at
93 percent.
“All eight players in our
rotation executed well all sea-
son,” Speth said. “They each
know and accept their role on
the team, and hold themselves
accountable to their teammates
to execute that role.”
“Ultimately, our goal was to
win a state championship, and
we fell just short of that,” she
said. “That is no way diminish-
es what this team accomplished
this season. This season was a
definite success.”
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Sport: Volleyball
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What I like best about my sport: “I love defense
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teammates accountable in a positive,
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our program’s success, and she will be
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