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Girls Volleyball Sweeps Rival East Islip 3-0
Erin Byrnes, Marisa Ejups and Taylor Kordich get five kills each.
The West Islip Varsity girls volleyball team took care of crosstown rival East Islip 3-0 Wednesday evening to notch their ninth League III victory of the season.
The Lions (9-2) opened the first game on a 7-0 run and followed it up with a 5-0 run to take an early 12-2 lead. East Islip (0-9) went on a 6-0 run of its own to come within five at 12-7, but the Lions didn't let them get more than two points in a row the rest of the game to finish with a 25-16 win.
East Islip trailed by just one early in the second game with the score at 7-6 before the Lions rattled off runs of five and six points for a 25-11 win.
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"Today [the communication] was where I wanted it to be," head coach Jim Klimkoski. "I don't think the ball dropped in between two players at all today. I made one bad call on the side and that was really the only communications error we made today. It's something we've been working on in practice, doing drills trying to get them to call the ball and work well together."
The Lions went on an early 6-0 run in the third game with Rebecca Ragusa serving. With the score at 20-10, West Islip finished off East Islip with five points in a row to close out a 25-10 win and a 3-0 sweep in the match.
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Erin Byrnes, Marisa Ejups and Taylor Kordich all had five kills for the Lions who clinched their ninth league victory of the season and are already in the League III playoffs. Their next game will be a non-league contest with Sachem North on Friday, Oct. 29 at 4 p.m. before closing out the regular season with their final league contest at Centereach on Monday, Nov. 1 at 4 p.m.
"As of now I think we're going to be a fourth or fifth seed if we win our next two games," Klimkoski said. "If we lose the next two games I don't know.
"On Friday we want to come out and compete. It's a non league match so I just want to prove that we can win outside of our league. Monday's our final league game so we want to finish 10-2 in our league and have a good win streak going into the playoffs next Thursday."
