Senior honors: Matanzas, Flagler Palm Coast volleyball teams combine their senior night

Not wanting to have their senior nights canceled because of the hurricane, the teams combined their ceremonies.

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With their senior nights threatened by Hurricane Milton, Flagler Palm Coast volleyball coach Lindsey Stewart and Matanzas coach Dawn Moses agreed to have a combined senior night on Monday, Oct. 7, at the Bulldogs' gym.

The rival teams were scheduled to meet only once this season with Matanzas winning 3-0 at home on Aug. 28. But with each team's scheduled senior night later this week looking like it would be canceled because of the hurricane, the coaches got together and decided to schedule a match and honor the seniors on both teams.

Each senior was honored before the match with their families. Matanzas honored Faith Purvis, Ashley Sampselle, Paige Duckworth, Ari Kardas, Natalie Zoll and Abby Eskelsen.

FPC honored Alyssa Cruz, Alexis Hanna, Morghan Mackey, Dyllis Mballesube and manager Izzybella Stanford.

In the match, the Pirates looked like they were headed to another sweep, winning 25-21, 25-10 in the first two sets. But FPC held off Matanzas to win a thrilling third set, 28-26, and then battled to the end in the fourth set, finally falling 25-23.

With the 3-1 victory, Matanzas improved to 10-11, while FPC fell to 15-6. The teams are scheduled to begin district play next week.  

 

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