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Before Ranii put the finishing touches on the 12th San Marcos win, the Royals (12-0-1) dodged a couple of bullets from Oxnard’s cat-quick forward Angel Ivan Olguin. Twice Olguin slammed shots of the crossbar. The first one came in the fourth minute and the second 25th.
“He was a handful,” McLean said. “They were an impressive team in the sense that when we had a player pinch in (to defend), they always knew to play into the space that that player left. They were well organized.”
San Marcos broke the scoreless game in the 28th minute on a nifty play in the box. Yahir Vasquez cleverly back-heeled a through pass that Cade McLean finished.
Santa Barbara Fights Off a Spirited San Marcos to Win Channel League Boys Volleyball Title
Sam Meister of Santa Barbara elevates to hit against San Marcos blockers Aiden Pazier (13) and Hansen Streeter. (Gary Kim / Noozhawk photo) By Barry Punzal, Noozhawk Sports Editor |
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| 10:18 p.m.
Santa Barbara High’s boys volleyball team wasn’t going to win the Channel League title without a fight.
And San Marcos gave the Dons all they wanted in their second meeting of the league season at the Thunderhut on Monday night.
Santa Barbara relied on its experience and the one-two punch of Sam Meister and Alex Rottman to overcome a first-set loss with comebacks in sets two and three and beat the Royals, 19-25, 25-23, 25-23, 25-18.
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Middle Cade McLean provided eight kills on 11 swings and opposite Jake Ewart had seven kills.
Hansen Streeter and Colin Earls shared setting duties for the Royals and Ben Newton and Jacob Yinger secured the back row.
San Marcos improves to 3-1 in Channel League and 4-1 overall. The teams meet against on Wednesday at Dos Pueblos. Noozhawk sports editor Barry Punzal can be reached at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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McLean’s goal came seven minutes after Santa Barbara nearly took the lead on a brilliantly taken free kick by Seba Alvarez from 20 yards straight out. Alvarez’s blast cleared the wall, clanged the underside of the cross bar, bounced off the ground, hit the bar again and dropped into the arms of San Marcos goalie Sam Friedman.
In a video from a cellphone, it appeared the ball cleared the goal line. But it was such a bang-bang play that the assistant referee couldn’t make a call.
“It’s unlucky,” said Alcaraz. “That’s part of the game. We’re gonna get calls and we’re not going to get calls sometimes. You can’t complain, you just got to move on.”