Third Set

"You all took the first set by storm! Let's keep up the pace!" Coach Russ tries to encourage, but he looks on as the whole team sweats. He couldn't afford to swap anyone in as he would lose essential strategies they could use to win. But he had no other choice.

"Coach… The second set… has been difficult… but trust in your team… we've got this" Lucas looks over at Kurai. Coach Russ sighs.

"Okay… statistics wise, we won the first set 20 to 25… they won the second… 25-21… we have one set left to decide the victor of the match… let's focus on their setter… drag him down from his control tower Kurai" Kurai nods as a buzzer whistles.

"With both teams tied with one set under each of their belts, we enter the third decisive set!"

"Monarch Virginia High Schools setter, Tom Bell, once again up to serve"

Tom tosses the ball with a deep exhale, running forward. Slamming his feet on the court with an echo, jumping high into the air. Swinging his whole arm into the ball sending it bolting over the net. Ajax receives the ball.

"It's high!" Kurai runs forward, jumping up and at the last second dumping the ball over the net and blockers with his towering height.

"Kurai Vlast just setter dumped the ball at the beginning of the set! The score now stands at 1-0 in favor of LakeWood Technical, just like their last game they could take this game 2 sets to 1, this would make them a crowd favorite to win this year!"

Dougal overhand serves the ball, it hits the tape and lands on the court, Skylar dives for the ball and gets it, but the rest of the team can't keep it off the court. Another point for LakeWood Technical. Dougal running forward and high fiving Ajax.

"A service ace for Dougal Wilson"

"This is strange, with the insane rallies we've seen in this rally so far? Why wasn't Monarch Virginia able to bring that up?"

Dougal overhand serves the ball again. Making it over the net this time as Bryson receives it. Tom ran up to the net and jumped up to set. Dougal's eyes quickly shift with an ominous glow as he appears in front of Juan. Juan grits his teeth and hits douglas arm but making it past, Kurai running over. 'The balls too close to overhand set it…!' Kurai reaches forward and underhand receives the ball.

"Dougal!" Dougal lands and runs to the ball, jumping up and setting it to Lucas who spikes it onto the court. Dougal fist bumps Lucas as a buzzer goes off shocking them.

"Oh! The referee is calling for a double touch! Dougal's set resulted in 2 different touches in quick succession… it's sad, but the point goes to Monarch Virginia High School"

"The point standings are currently 2-1 in favor of LakeWood Tech, albeit barely"

Bryson tosses the ball and jumps serves over the net, Ajax receives it, sending it high. Kurai ran forward breathing heavily, jumping and setting the ball, stumbling a bit and hitting the court after landing. Lucas ran forward and spiking the ball into the block and out of bounds. LWTHS 3-1 MVHS. Ajax reaches over to help Kurai up.

"Are you okay?" Kurai winces a bit as he stands.

"My knee started hurting again… guess I didn't land properly…" Ajax exhales.

"Coach is probably going to sub you out… are you sure we can go without you? We've already lost Richmond and Kaneko-" Kurai smirks.

"Don't doubt yourselves, Ajax, this team is strong" Kurai limps a bit off the court. Coach Russ substitutes Kurai for Nathan as he thinks to himself. 'Dougals' stuttering a bit after that double touch… now our strategic mind on the court is off because of knee pain…'

Erik, me and Chloe will stay here for the match, take Kurai to the nurse to get his knee checked out" Erik nods and walks over to Kurai and they leave the Arena. 'This isn't looking good for us'

Lucas tosses the ball, slamming it over the net, Skylar receives it and Tom jumps to set the ball, Dougal's eyes glow ominously as he guesses, turning to the right to block as his leg muscles tense up. 'Move, legs… MOVE!' Dougal jumps to block, getting barely any height, not enough to block the oncoming spike. Ajax dives for the ball but doesn't reach in time. Dougal landed, gritting his teeth. Exhaustion was getting to him now. Lucas walked over, resting his hand on Dougal's shoulder.

"Don't worry about it… you're still keeping up and that's all we could ask for… Dougal" Lucas waves Coach Ross who sighs sadly.

"LakeWood Technical substitutes out Dougal Wilson for Nate Xarajico!"

"What's going on with LWT down there?? They're making substitutions left, right, and center! Literally!... and with the score tied at 3-3 now, this game could go anywhere!"

Tom tosses the ball and slams it over the net, Ajax diving and bringing the ball up 'horrible receive!'

"Lucas!" Lucas runs forward and sets the ball down the center where Xavier jumps at the net, hitting the ball into the block and onto MVHS's court. Turning around and thrusting his fist.

"HAAA!!" Xavier smirks.

"Xavier shows why he's a senior year player! That was one powerful spike!"

"Now the ball goes to LWT to serve… Monarch Virginia managed to get rid of Kurai, so the rest of the game should go pretty smoothly for them!"