Corn Bible Academy finishes second

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Corn Bible Academy finished 4-1 at Saturday’s tournament at Weatherford High School, only dropping the championship game to Weatherford, 2-0.

CBA defeated Clinton and Weatherford JV 2-0 and they defeated Snyder 2-1 in pool play. In bracket play, they defeated Tipton 2-0, but fell to Weatherford 2-0 in the championship game.

“After seeing the other teams at the tournament, I felt we deserved to be in the championship with Weatherford,” coach Erin Basinger said. “We like the long tournaments because we are able to get so much experience in just a short amount of time. After playing together all day, we always can see improvement from the first game to the last.”

Pool play CBA 2, Clinton 0

Corn Bible defeated Clinton 25-16 in the first set and 25-21 in the second set. Basinger said each team had a slow start because of the early start time.

“As we played Clinton, both teams still were waking up and getting started so neither of us necessarily played our best,” Basinger said. “People could tell as the match went on, the level of play increased on both sides.”

CBA 2, Weatherford JV 0

Corn Bible played well in this set as they won the first set 25-9 and won the second set 25-14. Basinger said they worked on some things during this game.

“The Weatherford JV game was a good game to work on some things like serving and eliminating errors,” Basinger said.

CBA 2, Snyder 1

Snyder won the first set 26-24. In the second set, it was a tight one and Corn Bible trailed 24-22 but closed the game on a 4-0 run and won 26-24, forcing a third set.

In the third set, Corn Bible and Snyder played close, but Corn Bible built a 10-6 lead forcing Snyder to call a timeout. Corn Bible won 15-11.

“Against Snyder we really were battling with ourselves as we had a couple of minor injuries to fight off and error after error,” Basinger said. “Being able to come out with a win in a game like that hopefully helped our mental toughness increase.”

Bracket play CBA 2, Tipton 0

The first set was close at the beginning, but Corn Bible pulled away late and won the set 25-19.

In the second set, Corn Bible was up 23-21 needing 2 points to advance to the championship game. Corn Bible won as Kennedy Listak hit the ball into the backcourt in position where Tipton was unable to get it and they won 25-22.

With the win, Corn Bible advanced to the championship game where they played Weatherford.

Weatherford 2, CBA 0

Both teams made a few mistakes during the first set with missed balls and some shots going out of bounds. Weatherford built a 12-9 lead with a kill from Robertson. Sydney Barr has a kill giving Weatherford a 21-17 advantage. Corn Bible went on a 3-0 run making it 23-20 and Weatherford won 25-20.

In the second set, Weatherford the set was tied, 8-8, early on.. Weatherford went on a 4-0 run, making the score 12-8. Corn Bible did not go away, but Weatherford went on a 3-0 run giving them a 19-13 advantage. After that run, Weatherford closed the set on a 6-3 run and won the championship with the 25-16 win in the second set.