DAWGS In Motion Against The Woodlands

Like a well oiled machine, the Lady Bulldogs showed up at The Woodlands HS gymnasium prepared, clicking on all cylinders and ready to play Tuesday night, while keeping their undefeated district record intact against the closest competitor. The Lady Highlanders from The Woodlands were in a tie with College Park for second place and an outside chance in continuing on in Bi-District play and could use the momentum of an upset in their quest to move forward.

The Lady Highlanders pressed early in set 1, playing it close to the vest and jumped to an early lead at 3-2 but could not hold it very long. Actually, the Lady Bulldogs tied the Lady Highlanders at 4-4, then went ahead by an Alicia Shaffer kill at 5-4 and never relinquished the lead in this one as the DAWGS established the pecking order for tonight's performance.

Lady Bulldog Alicia Shaffer shown here 'cutting the corner'.

Once the machine started rolling it was a pleasure to watch as the DAWGS pulled ahead on an 8 to 3 point advantage behind a variety of kills from Shaffer, Michele 'Boom Boom' Williams, the 'High Flyin' Kelli Stewart, and a quick set to Hannah Fort as the DAWGS ganged up on the fading Lady Highlanders. Once the Lady Highlanders' coach Leslie Madison called time out, you'd have thought the momentum would have changed, but the DAWGS had a different plan. All they did was jump back on The Woodlands and run out on another 12 to 6 streak to ice their neighbor 25-13.

Things may look kind of confusing here, but the DAWGS

were in total control against The Woodlands.

In the second set, the Lady Highlanders picked up their pace and again held the lead early in the game. They led by 3 at 7-4 as the DAWGS were having an error prone 'moment', but a 9 point scoring spree cured that in a hurry, behind a Jamie Kaleh kill at 5-7; a Hannah Fort shot off their hands at 6-7; a Hannah Fort/Meagan Little combo block assist at 7-7 and at 8-7; back-to-back Lady Highlanders' errors; a Hannah Fort dink at 12-7 sandwiched by a couple of un-returnable serves by Jamie Kaleh at 11-7 and 13-7. Again the DAWGS pulled away with their extra horsepower!

Lady Bulldogs Kelli Stewart (l) and Michele Williams (r)

teaming up to slow down a Lady Highlander attack.

The best The Woodlands could do in this one was to narrow the gap to 3 points at 16-13, but then quickly became error prone as well, while the Lady Bulldogs poured it on with a 'Boom Boom' Williams assault that yielded 9 points to The Woodlands' 2 ... leaving a final score on the scoreboard at 25-15. The DAWGS were getting close to where they wanted to be, with another sweep in sight... Here's an audio clip in Game 1:

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