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The DAWGS were in a celebratory mood when Hannah Fort ended the match
with a kill in a great comeback win against the A & M Consolidated Lady Tigers.
The Lady Tigers pounced on Magnolia and opened up a 6-0 lead while the Lady Bulldogs were still celebrating the previous set win and were in the midst of having serve receive problems and hitting errors in this set. It wasn't until Michele 'Boom Boom' Williams fired a missle with her patented "Glide Slamma-Jamma-Roosky" kill shot at 1-6, when the DAWGS woke up and realized that they were still in the game,....but it was the next shot that really ignited the fans in the Sam Houston Coliseum. It started when Boom Boom followed up her Glide shot by unleashing another massive kill shot that (unintentionally) ricocheted off a poor Lady Tiger's noggin that flew back from the Tiger's middle court, over and across the net AND the DAWGS' backcourt ...only to drop 10 feet past the back boundry line for the Lady Bulldogs' 2nd point!! After the crowd let out a collective gasp -it quickly turned to astonished cheers when they realized there was not an injury (though it may take a while to get the imprint of the ball off the Tiger's head), the forces of momentum and confidence began the long turn back the DAWGS' way! It wasn't that the Lady Bulldogs immediately made up the scoring defecit, but they began playing even more aggressively from this point going forward.Now that the DAWGS got their paws wet, they began to right the ship and turn up the heat. They stayed within striking distance despite being as far behind as 7 points (5-12), and started one of their best comebacks in recent memory or (arguably), in Lady Bulldog state playoff history.
It started with an Alicia Shaffer kill at 9-14; then a Hannah Davies' ace serve at the beginning of the next rotation to put the score at 10-14; then it was a Boom Boom explosion off the Tigers' paws at 11-14; next point was a result of the Tigers hitting out-of-bounds at 12-14 and a Tiger time out was called to give the ladies a chance to re-group while cooling off the sizzling DAWGS. When play resumed, Boom Boom ran her patented Glide to put it at 13-14; then another Boom Boom Boomer off the defenders' hands at 14-14; and after a reeling Tiger hitting error at 15-14 - the comeback was on.... and the DAWG pound was REALLY howling!!
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'Boom Boom', shown here with team mates Jamie Kaleh (7) and Brittany Wheaton (5)
was relentless against the Tigers, tallying up 22 Kills with 2 solo and 2 assist blocks.
Still the Tigers were wounded, but they were far from dead...!!! They clawed back and took the lead for the last time at 16-15, only to stir Michele and the DAWGS up again with a kill at 16-16; followed by Boom Boom's Sidewinder shot at 17-16; then a 'fake to Boom Boom' who drew the defenders in to her, by Hannah Davies who backset the High Flyin' Kelli Stewart -who blasted a missle of her own off the Tigers' hands at 18-17; and again, it was a Boom Boom kill at 19-17 and a serve receive error at 20-17 that forced the Lady Tigers to burn their last time out. The Lady Bulldogs kept their pace and closed it out once again at crunch time, as you may be able to tell with this audio clip. I must apologize for being caught up with all the action, but it was certainly too exciting to contain oneself:
GO LADY BULLDOGS!!!
ALL THE WAY TO STATE!!!
