On Thursday Oct. 13, NECC Knights defeated Great Bay Community College three sets to one.
The Knights lost set one 25-20 and came back to win the next three sets, set two 25-21, set three 26-24 and on the fourth set 25-15.
The game officially started 6:32 pm.
The Knights scored the first three points of the game before Great Bay scored the next three to tie it up at 3.
The Knights were up 7 to 5 before Great Bay evened the score apart at 7.
The Knights were down a point when Ashley Dominguez of Lawrence tied the game at 11.
It was a good battle early in the contest between these two teams.
The Knights were looking to get themselves into the game when Caroline Burns of Haverhill spiked the ball to make it 19-17 still in favor of Great Bay.
Great Bay was on a run against the Knights as the Knights fell short 25-20 in the first set.
“Definitely, the first set I felt it was a little rocky but I feel like the girls definitely pulled out of a hole they were in when it comes to point,” said assistant head coach Marissa Reardon.
In the second set the Knights were up 3-2 when Great Bay called an unusual early timeout way too quickly in the second set.
After the time out Great Bay went on a 5-0 run against the Knights.
After that the Knights scored the next three to put this game 7 to 6. Great Bay missed up the order to tie the game up at seven.
The Knights was up 12 to 9 when Ashley Martinez of Lawrence hit the ball and the ball barely went in to make it 13 to 9.
The momentum shifted he Knights’ way as they started to get into a run and were looking to blow it open in the second set.
The Knights were winning 13 to 9 as they increased that lead to 20 to 14. The Knights were five points away from winning the set.
The Knights increased their lead to 8, that lead Great Bay to shorten that lead a little bit but the Knights won the second set 25-21 to tie the series up 1-1.
“The second set it was a lot better they fixed a lot of the mistakes that we talked about in between the sets and I thought it went really well,” Reardon said.
In the third set Martinez did a great save from preventing Great Bay from scoring to make it 2-0 in favor of the Knights. Great Bay went on a 7-0 run before coach Reardon called a time out.
Kathleen Perez Flores of Lowell made it 11-9, she tip the ball with both of her hands up and the ball went in.
The Knights were up 16 to 14 but eventually Great Bay tied up at 17.
The Knights were up 19 to 17 before Great Bay tied the game and took a 20- 19 lead.
At the end of the third set it got pretty intense as the Knights defeated Great Bay 26-24 in the third set.
In the fourth set with the Knights winning two set to one over Great Bay.
The Knights were down 8 to 6 before they tied the game and took the lead 9 to 8.
When the Knights have that 9 to 8 lead Great Bay had no chance to defeat the Knights.
The Knights went on a 10-2 run against Great Bay to put this game at 19 to 10 as the Knights were 6 points away from winning the set.
Great Bay was looking for a comeback but the Knights would not allow that to happen in their house as the Knights defeated Great Bay 25 to 15.
