Park County Sports Wrap. Volleyball: Bruins take Manhattan Christian to five sets, Lady Rangers drop two to BC and Laurel, and Lady Rebels win.
Football: Rebels can't find their offense in loss to Bridger and Rangers at a crossroad after halftime forfeit.
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By: Jeff Schlapp
The Billings Central Catholic Lady Rams came to Livingston on Thursday night and delivered a message to the Lady Rangers at Park High during their 3-0 win.
Come prepared to win every night. Not just play, but win.
The Lady Rangers reminds me of a man who drove the same Honda Accord for ten years before deciding to trade it for a Porsche 911. Getting used to driving a car with twin-turbo flat-six engines tuned for up to 473 horsepower takes time.
The girls are talented, but their mental mistakes sometimes prevent them from playing free, unbridled, fun volleyball.
The Rangers have taken the 911 out of the garage, but they don’t feel comfortable opening her power yet. That happened on Thursday night; they returned to playing safe, low-risk volleyball and brought the Honda when they needed the Porsche.
The Lady Rams—and we’ll call them as we see them—are a great volleyball team. This is partly thanks to some questionable transfers, but you play the girls across the net, and during the first set of their match, the Rangers seemed shell-shocked. Every point the Rangers tallied during a 12-25 loss I had scored as an unforced error on Central - it wasn’t so much that the Rangers scored 12 points, the Rams gave them 12 points.
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