Calallen High School Volleyball

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Volleyball Time! State Ranked #8 Calallen Fightin' Lady Wildcats claw the Flour Bluff Lady Hornets in Three straight sets.

Happy Calallen Team are leaping high, they just ripped Flour Bluff Hornet for the second time, and with 2 district games to go, The Calallen Lady Wildcats are the 2007 31-4A Volleyball Champions. Congratulations.

Article Credit: Corpus Christi Caller-times.

High SchoolBeen there, done that Veteran Cats avoid upset by Hornets By Stuart Duncan (Contact) Photo Gallery Calallen 3, Flour Bluff 0 Volleyball match on Oct. 9 CORPUS CHRISTI — This was more like it. Tuesday night's highly anticipated rematch between the Calallen and Flour Bluff volleyball teams was much more entertaining than their first District 31-4A meeting. State-ranked Calallen and its nine seniors pulled through in the end again, however, as the Wildcats knocked off the upset-minded Hornets 25-23, 25-12, 25-23 at Flour Bluff High School. Defending 31-4A champion Calallen (30-4 overall, 6-0 district) -- which dropped six spots to No. 8 in the Texas Girls Coaches Association Class 4A state volleyball rankings this week even though it hasn't lost a match since moving up to No. 2 -- remained atop the district standings, while second place Flour Bluff (17-12 overall) fell to 4-2 in district play. Calallen also swept the Hornets in the previous district meeting between the teams, but Tuesday's match proved to be much tougher for the Wildcats, who battled back from a 19-16 Game 3 deficit to close it out. "This is the Flour Bluff team that we expected to play tonight," Wildcats coach Lupe Cardona said. "Both teams played such good defense tonight, and we were "I'm very pleased with the way the girls responded against Calallen, " Hornets coach Joni Luna said. "We competed tonight. We gave Calallen all they wanted tonight." The Hornets did just that, especially in the first and third games, which both went down to the wire. Flour Bluff had a chance to avoid the sweep in the finale, as junior Allison Monette had six straight service points, including an ace, to give the Hornets a 19-16 advantage. Much like the rest of the match, however, it was an upperclassman answering for the Wildcats. After Calallen closed within two, senior OH/MB Angela Hook delivered one of her eight kills on the night during Calallen's decisive 9-4 run to close it out. Senior DS Tamara Wostal also contributed one of the Wildcats' six aces on the night during the run, while senior OH Courtney Oertli and Hook also combined for two kills to help Calallen put the finishing touches on the victory. "They just don't give up -- they don't get flustered," Cardona said of the Wildcats' seniors. Luna agreed. "Their big four (Kelsey Schwirtlich, Amanda Haven, Oertli and Hook) just stepped up for them," she said. "Those seniors are a nice luxury to have." Schwirtlich (who signed with Division I UTSA next season) led Calallen with nine kills, while Oertli (who signed with Division I program Villanova) had a team-high eight blocks. Junior MB Jackie Matula also had two blocks for the Wildcats, while Haven and Oertli combined for 19 digs. Schwirtlich and Oertli combined for 26 assists. Junior Kristin Halverson and senior C.J. Downey led the Hornets with six and five kills respectively, while Flour Bluff senior MB Holly Watson (who signed with D-I Texas A&M-Corpus Christi) had a team-high two blocks. Monette and senior Mikeya Edwards combined for 21 digs for the Hornets, while Flour Bluff setter Kindall Stephens added a team-high 14 assists. CALALLEN def. F-B, 25-23, 25-12, 25-23. Aces -- Calallen: Kelsey Schwirtlich 1, Tamara Wostal 1. Flour Bluff: Allison Monette 1. Assists -- Calallen: Courtney Oertli 13, Schwirtlich 13. Flour Bluff:Kindall Stephens 14. Blocks -- Calallen: Courtney Oertli 8, Jackie Matula 2. Flour Bluff: Holly Watson 2. Digs -- Calallen: Amanda Haven 10, Oertli 9 Flour Bluff: Monette 14, Mikeya Edwards 7. Kills -- Calallen: Schwirtlich 9, Angela Hook 8. Flour Bluff: Kristin Halverson 6, Downey 5. RECORDS -- Calallen, Overall, 30-4, District, 6-0. Flour Bluff, 17-12, 4-2. JV -- FB def. Calallen, 25-14, 25-22. FR -- FB def. Calallen, 25-13, 25-17.