04/10/2025
The Pierce Men’s volleyball team travels to Moorpark College as they battle their penultimate game on April 9., losing the match with a final score of 3-0.
Pierce showed considerable improvement compared to their previous game. Despite a slow start, the Brahmas are making progress and starting to believe in their ability to compete with top teams in the state, according to head coach Joseph Arechiga.
“I wish a few things would have gone our way here and there, but we pushed them, we challenged them and I’m proud of what we did,” Arechiga said. “It’s the mental consistency when things aren’t going our way.”
Toward the end of the first set, the game transformed into an intense back-and-forth competition, with Pierce finishing strongly. However, Moorpark claimed the win, 25-18.
It was a tight game in the second set against the Raiders. Pierce setter Karl Manolong recognized the close margin of victory as the team gradually built momentum. In the end, Moorpark won the set 25-18.
“We started really low at first and then just gradually went up and up,” Manolong said. “If we rode the energy, the third set would have been ours, fourth set, and maybe fifth set.”
Moorpark won 25-18 in the third set, ending the game. Opposite hitter Sam Henry feels he could have done more and thinks the team could have contributed more, but they had a few lapses here and there, and things didn’t go as planned for the Brahmas.
“Volleyball to me is like a game of tug of war, and the thing about tug of war is the second you lose your grip, you lose,” Henry said. “So we lost our grip, we let it get away from us and we just kept losing and they kept pulling and pulling until the game was over.”
The Brahmas are set to wrap up their season with their final game against Santa Barbara City College on April 11 at 6:00 p.m.
✍️Myraneli Fabian
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