TOWAMENCIN – “You just can’t give a good team that many points,” exclaimed North Penn head coach Tim Moyer. Bad serves seemed to be the number one problem for the North Penn Boy’s Volleyball team in their loss against C.B. West 3-1 (25-19, 25-12, 22-25, 30-28) Wednesday afternoon. After C.B. West defeated Pennridge Tuesday night, there was a three way tie for first place in the Continental Conference between North Penn, Pennridge, and C.B. West. In preparation for the game Coach Moyer emphasized that “we spent a lot of time on defense. We knew [C.B.West] was going to be an aggressive team. They hit hard and they were coming off a big win yesterday against Pennridge, so we knew they were going to come in here ready to fight.”
During the first two rounds of play North Penn seemed to have a hard time getting started – missing critical serves – giving C.B. West free points throughout the match. Moyer commented on the game saying “we need to make a couple of adjustments…we missed way too many serves. We had 18 missed serves tonight, so those were give away points. They only had 4 missed serves in the whole match. That’s almost a whole games worth of points we gave them without them having to work.”
Despite the rough start, North Penn pulled themselves together and appeared to have reached a turning point during the third round winning it 25-22. The “defense started playing more aggressively and offensively our serving started to get better. We have a very solid team when they work hard and when they fight it is a little bit different…if we wouldn’t have dug ourselves such a hole early it might have been a different story,” continued Moyer.
In light of Wednesday’s game senior Yash Boghara explained that “we need to work [on serving], we just need to put the ball in, and if we put the ball in we can win any game we want – that’s just the big difference maker; we basically gave them the game.”
“We don’t take anybody lightly; we need to come out and work on fixing stuff that hurt us tonight and put more pressure on our opponents and make that team earn points instead of giving them quite so many,” Moyer added.
The Knights return home for their next home match against Pennridge Wednesday April 24th at 3:45pm.