Jets fly to victory at volleyball tri-meet
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PAINESDALE -- Hosting a late-season triangular on the volleyball court, the Jeffers Jets hosted the Lake Linden-Hubbell Lakes and the Copper Island Academy Eagles for matches in their gym. The Jets downed both their opponents in straight sets. This included a 25-18 and 25-17 win over Copper Island to end the three-game series.
Jeffers coach Joslynn Jukkala noted that teamwork was key to the Jets two wins.
"We played well together as a team," she said Part of that was that I was able to get everybody in, which is always a good thing. We moved the ball well all night."
In the opening set, Kylee Andrews and team led the Jets out to a 9-3 lead. With Amira Helminen, the girls in green advanced to a 12-4 advantage. At 20-13, the race was on to 25. the Jets Isabel Rajala posted an ace to make it 21- 13. While the Eagles Tara Jurmu posted a run of four to move the score to 24-18 that is as good as it got. With Sophia Johnson on the line, the set ended in the Jets' favor.
The second set was quite similar, with the Jets staying one step ahead of the Eagles and pushing out to a 9-3 early lead. With a kill by Jets Sophia Anderson, it was now a 13-6 game. Then came teammate Anna Sudderth to the line, and she posted a service run of five to make it a 10-point lead at 20-10. While the Eagles were able to score seven more points with Anna Koski at the line, it wasn’t enough and this one ended in the Jets' favor as well.
Despite the loss, Copper Island’s coach Matt Laho was happy with his girls' competitiveness.
"We are a new program and are a JV team playing varsity," he stated, "We are competing with them. I like our energy and the scramble we have to keep the ball off the floor. Our serve-receive was very good.
"We are young, and games like these are good experiences."