DAWGS Sweep Lady Mustangs Out of DAWG House

The Magnolia High School Lady Bulldogs ripped into the District 18-4A rival Magnolia West Lady Mustangs tonight sweeping the 'Stangs for the second time this season and keeping on track for a District showdown with co-leader Brenham this Wednesday evening. The DAWGS were definitely NOT looking ahead in tonight's match as evidenced by the scores (25-14, 25-14, and 25-12) and broke the (10-16, 2-5) Mustangs in less than an hour, and kept the noisy DAWG POUND on their feet shaking their keys shouting, "Start the bus, start the bus...."

The keys were jing-a-linging in the DAWG House.

BTW, who dresses these guys?

The Lady Bulldogs played consistent, aggressive, and smart volleyball against their younger, less experienced opponent with an multi-pronged attack led by sophomore MB Courtney Felinski's 14 kills, 2 aces, 5 digs and 3 block assists; senior OH Kelli Stewart's 12 kills, 2 aces, 6 digs and 2 block assists; sophomore OH Katzy Randall who blasted 7 kills with 10 digs; senior MB Meagan Little who's timely 6 kills, 3 aces, 4 digs and 1 block assist kept the DAWGS fired up and hungry; sophomore setter Paige Holland who had a kill, 4 digs, 2 assist blocks and 39 assists; not to mention another fine performance from junior Angi Gould (2 aces and 5 digs), senior OH Sarah Bacho (1 kill) and senior Hannah Davies' 8 digs.

Another big night for Courtney Felinski

leading the hitters with 14 kills against MWHS.

The Lady Mustangs opened the match blocking Meagan Little at 0-1 and paid for that dearly, from then on. Meagan quickly dinked the ball for a point on the very next play to tie it at 1-1, then served up an ace at 3-1, followed by Kelli Stewart hammering a kill at 4-1 and a dink at 5-1, then after a few errors - Courtney Felinski jammed the Stangs with kills in the middle at 9-3 and 10-4. The DAWGS kept at least a 6 point margin when they went on a tear and found themselves leading by 9 at 20-11 when the Lady Mustangs called time out and tried to catch their breath. The ladies then earned the final 5 DAWGIE points with a Felinski dink at 21-11, a Stewart dink at 22-12, another Felinski kill at 23-13, then a Meagan Little kill in the middle at 24-13, and a Katzy Randall finale blast at 25-14 to make this a solid victory and to make any coach sit up and take notice that this is becoming a well rounded team and will be difficult to stop when they're hitting in all cylinders like they are! The dinks were well placed and timely and kept the Lady Mustangs confused and complimented the kill shots that came behind them.

The DAWGIE "Circle of Trust"!

In the second set, the teams switched sides - but the DAWGS gave another dose of DAWG Power, pouncing on their rival for 10 earned points and sitting pretty with an 11 point lead at 14-3 thanks to a handful of MWHS's errors. The Lady Bulldogs pressed on with another solid team attack and found they kept their 11 point advantage at 23-12 when the high-flyin' Kelli Stewart slammed another one by 'em. Both teams sleepwalked to the finish with the same result - DAWGS 25 MUSTANGS 14. The barking in the Pound started up.......

High Flyin' Kelli Stewart almost effortlessly

blowing by the puzzled Lady Mustangs!

Again the Lady Bulldogs went to work in this third set, earning their points the hard way: Kelli with a shot at 2-0 then teaming up with Courtney for a block assist at 3-0, then Courtney hammering her way for the next 3 DAWG (earned) points at 5-2, her Glide shot at 6-3, a dink at 7-4; and once the Mustangs started to gang up on Courtney, Katzy Randall launched a SCUD at 9-4 and all-of-a-sudden, the Lady Mustangs had a hard time keeping things together. The DAWGS kept pushing forward and again felt comfortable with their 10 point lead at 20-10, with more fireworks out of Kelli: 14-8, 15-8, 19-8 and Courtney: 18-8 and 20-10. Instead of going quietly, the DAWGS chomped down hard and scored 5 to MWHS's 2 points as Sarah Bacho hammered one down the line at 21-11, Kelli had another ace at 22-11, and Katzy scalded another one at 23-12 and the Stangs bowed before their opponents in homage and scampered off...25-12.

Lady Bulldog Katzy Randall kept the Mustangs

off balanced and flatfooted all evening with her attacks.

Not only did the Lady Bulldog Varsity (21-12, 7-0) defeat Magnolia West in 3 straight, but the JV defeated West (25-16, 25-14) and the 9th grade (10-9, 5-0) defeated West 26-24, 21-25, 25-22.

SWEEP!! More Brooms to hang!!

Please be there Wednesday night at 6 pm for the match-up of the district leaders:
Magnolia Lady Bulldogs vs. Brenham at the DAWG House!

See you there!!!

GO LADY BULLDOGS!!!