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October 30th, 2009
LEESBURG, FL-- The Tavares boys volleyball team lost to
Carver Middle in three games (18-25, 25-19, 8-15) but the girls
won to stay undefeated.
In the boys match, the first point of every game went to Carver,
as TMS seemed to start out slowly. The boys put in their best
effort and won the second match, which was marked by controversy
over the score which resulted in a shouting match between a
volunteer coach and a key keeper to the locker rooms. It
seemed the scoreboard and hand scorebooks were different; the
scores were changed, and nobody was sure what the correct score
was.
Halfway through the third match, the girls team and the boys on
the bench started watching the server and noticed eleven
possible foot faults made by the Carver team. Two Tavares
players asked the referee to watch the server at separate times,
but no foot faults were called on the Carver Red Raiders.
"The line judges
were not even looking," said Tavares girls player Kara Horvath.
"We kept shouting but they wouldn't call anything."
The Tavares girls team won (27-25, 25-22) in two close games.
More controversy ensued when the scorebook was again challenged
and Carver challenged Tavares asserting they should be docked a
point for being out of rotation.
“We played a tough game, we could have done way better, but in
the end we pulled it together,” said backline player Casey
Keough.
The
loss drops the boys volleyball team to 1-1 and the girls are 2-0
on the season.
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