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The West Jessamine volleyball team continued it’s dominance over cross-town rival East Jessamine with a 2-0 win at East Tuesday night.

The win gives the Colts (12-9) the regular season sweep over the Jaguars (4-12). It marks the fifth straight season sweep for the Colts and runs the West winning streak in the series to 13 games.

The Jaguars were a touch short-handed in the loss. They may have lost senior middle hitter Racheal Harrington for the season. But East was also without Harrington’s back-up, sophomore Morgann Taylor.

“Now you have all but three of your varsity playing a JV game and then come up and play a varsity game,” Coach Crystal Dean said. “It’s hard. It’s tiring. It’s exhausting.”

East hopes to have Taylor back in time for this weekend’s Citizen’s Bank Volleyball Throwdown in Bath County.

While Dean was struggling with personnel, West Coach Hannah Cook was seeing exactly what she wanted to out of her squad.

“We played hard,” she said. “We had some really good serving from Faith (Kempf) and Allison (Rehner). And we had some good digs from Rachel (Kulaga) and Katie Martello. They played well. I wish they would play like that all the time.”

In the first game, West took an early 7-3 lead with a 4-1 run. The Colts extended that lead to 12-5 before an East timeout.

They pushed the lead out to 18-10 before the Jags started a 5-2 run to close the gap to 20-15.

But three straight points by the Colts forced another East timeout. East put another three points on the scoreboard to rally back, but West closed the game out with a 25-18 final.

In the second set, the two teams traded points until 3-3, when West put together a 6-1 run and forced an East timeout. West added four more points before the Jags managed to break the West serve.

The Colts cruised the rest of the way to a 25-10 win and the 2-0 victory on the road.

The 10-1 run in the second set proved to be the backbreaker for the Jags.

“I think anytime a team gets even two points (we get down),” Dean said. “We have to work on keeping our heads up. We need to to pass every ball knowing we can. We need do everything with confidence. We need to work on our confidence.”

For the Colts, they are looking to improve their reactions on defense.

“We struggle with reading the hitters on the other team,” Cook said. “If they are going to be hitting line or cross county or middle back, just reading their arm and their hand placement on the ball. That stuff is really hard to learn cause it just comes from experience. That’s one thing we’re working on it practice — learning how to read where the ball is going to be hit and where you should be on defense.”

The Colts return home tonight to take on Franklin County at 7:0 p.m.

East’s next home game after the weekend tournament comes Monday at 6 p.m. against Casey County.

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