Ocean View Improves, Still Loses

Ocean View played a better match against Torrance Bishop Montgomery than it did a week earlier at the Southern Section girls’ volleyball finals. Unfortunately, the Knights didn’t play any worse.

Top-seeded Bishop Montgomery beat Ocean View on Saturday for the second time in seven days, only the host Knights needed four games instead of three to win, 8-15, 15-11, 15-4, 15-13, in a Division III quarterfinal state tournament match.

“I knew they were going to come out in a much bigger and better fashion than they did last week,” Bishop Montgomery Coach Kim Willeman said. “They didn’t play a great match at the CIF finals.”

Fourth-seeded Ocean View (17-4) got off to a much better start than it did last weekend, when the Seahawks lost the opening game in 15 minutes.

Ocean View scored 11 of the first 14 points in Game 1 and won it when Hedder Ilustre couldn’t dig Carrisa Gough’s spike.

“I think that team, since they had beaten us fairly easily in the finals, probably was not real concerned at the beginning,” Ocean View Coach Tim Mennealy said. “We put some pressure on them and they decided they had to play, and they certainly did.”

Bishop Montgomery (26-6) didn’t switch gears until late in the second game, when it fell behind, 9-6, on Tracy Lindquist’s set into the middle of the Knights’ defense. Bishop Montgomery scored five consecutive points to take an 11-9 lead then tallied the final four points to even the match.

Bishop Montgomery kept momentum in the third game, stretching its lead to 7-2 and 14-4 when Cerina Pele stuffed an overpass. The Knights then won the game when Kelly Jameson ducked under Pele’s serve, which landed just inside the back line.

Ocean View rallied late in Game 4, cutting into an 11-5 deficit by scoring four consecutive points. Bishop Montgomery extended the lead to 14-9, but the Seahawks narrowed the lead to one before Pele blocked Gough for match point.

“That team was a little more consistent than we were and that was the big difference in the match,” Mennealy said.

In Division IV:

Calvary Chapel 3, Los Angeles Marlborough 0--Christy Kimmel had 15 kills for host Calvary Chapel (17-3), which won, 15-3, 15-4, 15-10.

Calvary Chapel advanced to the semifinals to play at top-seeded Cerritos Valley Christian, which defeated Calvary Chapel three times this season.