Moses Lake hitters have big night in win over Davis
MOSES LAKE — Moses Lake needed contributions from everyone on the floor to dispatch a scrappy Davis team.
Yasmin Shateri posted 16 kills, three blocks and four aces, but it was the ancillary pieces that allowed Moses Lake to win in four sets 25-20, 25-16, 21-25, 25-16.
Serina Haneberg — who is listed as a setter — came through to provide seven kills, including the penultimate point and the final service of the night.
“We had to move the ball around a lot,” head coach Jennifer Gering said. “So it was a big contribution to have a backside hitter get seven kills. That’s pretty good.”
Moses Lake opened up an 8-4 lead in the first set.
However, service errors halted any built momentum and allowed Davis to creep back in. A kill by Melissa Vasquez tied the first set 13-13 before Moses Lake was able to stretch its lead back out behind the attack of Shateri and Gabi Rios.
“I saw the open holes and they weren’t very good at digging hard balls,” Shateri said.
The two 5-foot-10 hitters combined for seven kills in the first set.
The second proved to be the Chiefs’ strongest.
Moses Lake’s largest lead was 18-8 before Davis crawled back with a 4-0 run.
The lead was pushed back to eight before Rios ended the set with a spike that tiptoed across the net before falling onto Davis’ side.
A sweep appeared to be in the near future when Moses Lake started the third with a 6-1 advantage.
Davis showed its grit tie the set 9-9 and use a 9-4 run to pull ahead 18-3.
The Chiefs got within two points after Shateri’s 13th kill, but a long rally went in favor of the Pirates and set point fell just out of Krista Hutsell’s reach.
“You never want to underestimate them because they’ll pick up things that you don’t think they’re going to,” Gering said. “They’re just really scrappy and they don’t traditional, conventional type ball so they’ll put stuff over that you’re not ready for so we got caught up in that a few times.”
Moses Lake put together an 8-0 in the fourth set to take an 11-5 lead and led 23-16 before Haneberg’s final kill and her last service.
“I’m very proud of her (Haneberg),” Shateri said.
Set scores
ML — 25 25 21 25
D — 20 16 25 16
Kills — Shateri 16
Blocks — Shateri 3
Aces — Callie Tabert 4
Digs — Hutsell 10