{"id":2910,"date":"2025-04-08T02:22:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T02:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2025-04-08T02:31:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T02:31:03","slug":"never-say-die-18s-go-4-3-in-reno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=2910","title":{"rendered":"Never Say Die 18s go 4-3 in Reno"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Club volleyball team closes out season at Far Westerns<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RENO &gt;&gt; After winning their first three matches, the Never Say Die 18s finished up in the silver bracket Sunday at the conclusion of a three-day-long club volleyball tournament at the Reno\/Sparks Convention Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NSD won all three of its matches Friday, returned to the court Saturday and went 1-2, and lost their only match during single-elimination play Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe girls had a great tournament, and I am very proud of the way they ended their season,\u201d NSD head coach Marci Psalmonds said. \u201cThe 18s team has a very strong bond, which helped them through a lot of tough losses and also helped in some great comeback wins.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During play Friday, the 18s beat T-Street VBC (Orange County), Sweet VBC (Washington) and Xcell VBC (East Bay).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe girls came out ready to go and won all three matches in two sets each,\u201d Psalmonds said. \u201cIn our third match, our offense was very productive with 22 kills on 48 arm swings with only six swinging errors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NSD lost to the Titans (Santa Clara) to open Saturday\u2019s action, then beat NV Elevate (Nevada) before falling to CB-Elite (Washington).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSaturday was a very good day even though we only had one win,\u201d Psalmonds said. \u201cThe teams were a lot more competitive, and we were able to stay with them. The CB-Elite team was ranked No. 1 and we kept with them (losing 25-19, 25-20).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 18s closed out tournament play Monday by losing to COVC (Oregon).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe were very close to moving on against another good team,\u201d Psalmonds said. \u201cWe hung through three sets (COVC winning 25-17, 16-25, 15-11).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 18s finished the tournament with team totals of 168 kills, 333 digs, 144 assists, 22 blocks and 34 aces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am definitely going to miss the seniors, but I will still have a few of them on the court next year, just in a different jersey,\u201d said Psalmonds, who is an assistant coach for the Mendocino College volleyball team that a handful of her NSD players have committed to for the 2025 fall season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Club volleyball team closes out season at Far Westerns Lake County Sports on Facebook RENO &gt;&gt; After winning their first three matches, the Never Say Die 18s finished up in the silver bracket Sunday at the conclusion of a three-day-long club volleyball tournament at the Reno\/Sparks Convention Center. NSD won all three of its matches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,76],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2911,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions\/2911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}