The Lady Red Devils volleyball team fell to Cowley County Community College at home on Wednesday night, three sets to one.
Allen made it close in the first set but ultimately fell, 25-17. They then took the second set for their lone win of the matchup, 25-19, before dropping the final two sets by wide margins, 25-9 and 25-11.
“I’ve learned that I’ve got to find the people that have the heart to go out and win,” said Allen head coach Whitney Shaw. “Our game plan was to adjust our block and take away their options which I think we did in the first two sets. The first two sets went OK, but not the last two sets.”
The Lady Red Devils had seven kills with two errors on 25 attempts. The second set featured nine Allen kills with four errors on 27 total attempts in the lone win.
The third set then had five Allen kills and seven errors on 27 total attempts before the fourth and final set saw four Lady Red Devil kills with seven errors on 23 total attempts in the loss.
“We won that second set and then let up and played too casual. That’s something that we’ve been struggling with lately is just going through the motions, not having any sort of fight or heart. We let up, made errors and then they won,” said Shaw.
Abby Altic and Gabriela Dominguez led the Lady Red Devils with six kills, followed by Katherine Harris and Alycia Shaw’s five kills apiece. Allen’s Nadia Gallegos, Arlette Becerra and Veronica Agostini’s lone kills each also helped out.
Sofia Otero led her Allen squad with 14 aces in the win, followed by Guilia Goncalves’ seven aces and Andrea Maldonado’s two aces.
Defensively, Maldonado led the way with 21 digs while Otero registered nine digs and Dominguez and Karsyn Smith totaled six digs apiece. Shaw had two solo blocks while Harris, Altic, Gallegos and Becerra all recorded one solo block apiece.
“The blocking was something I hadn’t seen out of them consistently so that was good to see,” Shaw said. “We knew we were going to have to block to play them because they don’t make many errors. So we had to shut down their hitters.”
Points wise, Dominguez led the way with 8.5 points, followed by Altic’s 7.5 points and Shaw’s seven points. Gallegos and Becerra also each registered two points in the defeat. Overall, Cowley County outscored Allen, 64-38.
The ACC Lady Red Devils are back in action at Labette Community College Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.