{"id":6036,"date":"2026-03-24T00:31:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=6036"},"modified":"2026-03-24T03:20:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T03:20:05","slug":"never-say-die-18s-go-3-1-at-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=6036","title":{"rendered":"Never Say Die 18s go 3-1 at tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Mati Mateer&#8217;s 14 aces, 34 kills led team at Los Medanos College<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PITTSBURG &gt;&gt; The Never Say Die 18s club volleyball team started strong and finished with a 3-1 record during tournament play Sunday at Los Medanos College in Pittsburg where their only loss came in three sets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe girls started strong and came out ready to go on defense,\u201d Never Say Die head coach Marci Psalmonds said. \u201cTheir serve receive was great and we were on autopilot the first two matches.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NSD beat Pulse 25-15, 25-18 and Infinite 21-25, 25-17. T-Street beat NSD 25-14, 22-25, 15-13 in the team\u2019s third match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe struggled a lot on serve receive and we couldn\u2019t dig ourselves out of it,\u201d Psalmonds said. \u201cOnce we got into the rally, we were fine and kept the other team on its heels, we just needed some more good passes to start it all off.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NSD recovered to win its final match, beating Lakas 25-21, 25-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe bounced back and got our last win of the day,\u201d Psalmonds said. \u201cAJ (Wurm) hustled her butt off the whole day and saved us a lot. She is definitely our energizer bunny. Mati (Mateer) was a beast at the service line and caused havoc for the other teams.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mateer led NSD both in aces (14) and kills (34). Carly Johnson added 26 kills and seven blocks while Triniti Kuecker had 16 kills. NSD had 131 digs overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next up for the NSD 18s is the league championship Saturday and Sunday at the Capital Sports Center in Sacramento.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mati Mateer&#8217;s 14 aces, 34 kills led team at Los Medanos College Lake County Sports on Facebook PITTSBURG &gt;&gt; The Never Say Die 18s club volleyball team started strong and finished with a 3-1 record during tournament play Sunday at Los Medanos College in Pittsburg where their only loss came in three sets. \u201cThe girls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,27,76],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036"}],"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=6036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6042,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6036\/revisions\/6042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}