The Kinkaid Falcons hosted the John Cooper Dragons Wednesday night in a SPC Counter Match.  Both teams played for a seed in the South Zone in hopes to move on to the State SPC Championship in Dallas taking place November 1-2.

Kinkaid celebrated their senior night and as gift to their parents the team kept them on the edge of their seats in this 5 game nail biter, ending with a Falcon victory.

“It was our senior night and I think the girls had a really hard time getting a rhythm,” Kinkaid head coach, Debbie Sokol said. “I told them what we’ve been fighting all night long is just to find our rhythm and play the pace on our side of the net that we are used to.”

In game one John Cooper took the early lead and with good blocks from Cooper’s Emily Rigby and Bethany Nuttall the Dragons took game one 25-20. Kinkaid opted for the early lead in game two with Carolyn Gaut putting the final point on the board and tying the match with a 25-10 Kinkaid win.

Kinkaid took back-to-back wins, winning game three 26-24. Game three came down to the wire as both teams’ blockers made the necessary stops and finished with big kills. Cooper held the lead the majority of the game but they could not stop Kinkaids kill leader, Sarah Brown who put her team one game ahead.

The Dragons fought for a game five as they went on a three and four point runs in game four, placing themselves just out of reach of the Flacons giving the Dragons a 25-21 win.

With the crowd creeping to the edge of their seats and most now standing, game five was underway. Kinakid’s Katie Sharke made a statement, serving an ace on the first play and Kinkaid followed scoring six unanswered points. The deficit would eventually be too much to make up for Cooper as Brown rose up and spiked the ball for the 15-10 victory.

Kinkaid is now the seventh seed in the South Zone and will take on the North Zones seventh seed next week.

“We are going to try to work on our middle offense, I feel like that’s really an untapped part of our game,” said Sokol. “If we can get that a little more beefed up then I think we can pull something new out, that we haven’t used a lot.”

Kinkaid’s Brown led her team with 21 kills and 9 blocks, Jessica Messier finished the game with 27 digs and Sharke had 36 assists. Cooper’s Nora Camstra was the Dragon’s kill leader with 11 kills.

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