Volleyball Rallies From Two Down to Win in 5 Sets

Garner didn't get any style points on Monday night, but they did manage to come back from the brink of elimination in the semi-finals of the Greater Neuse River Conference Tournament on Monday night at Trojan Gym, as the Lady Trojans downed East Wake 3 games to 2.

The first two games of the match were all East Wake as the Warriors dominated game one winning 25-10. In the second game, Garner jumped out to a early 6-0 lead prompting East Wake to call a timeout, however, the Warriors came fighting back as they defeated Garner in game two 25-17.

Garner was now in a must win situation in game three and it would be a back and forth contest with each team seizing the momentum at different points in the pivotal third game. But, the Lady Trojans came away with a nip and tuck 26-24 win to cut the Warrior lead in half at 2 games to 1.

With the win in game three, the Lady Trojans had begun to find their stride and took a early 9-3 lead in the fourth game and again East Wake could call time to try and stop the Garner momentum. That timeout did little to stop the rally that Garner had brewing as they quickly went up 16-8 before East Wake called their final timeout of the game.

Following the timeout, Trojan Senior, Kasey Hamrick, served five consecutive aces to make it 23-9 in favor of Garner, the Lady Trojans would win the fourth game of the match 25-10 to fight back to tie the match.

Garner had come all the way back to tie the match and send it to a pivotal fifth game and as the final game got underway there was little doubt who was in control as Kristen Powell got three of Garner's first four points of the final game en route to a Anna Burton ace to cap the comeback as Garner won the fifth game 15-5 and win the match 3 games to 2.

With the win, the Lady Trojans will advance to the Greater Neuse River Conference Tournament Championship Wednesday night at Trojan Gym against Harnett Central who defeated Southeast Raleigh 3 games to none to advance to the finals.


The Lady Trojans will also host the programs fist ever home playoff match on Saturday.