BLOOMFIELD - A 16-0 run between the first and second games threw Central Lee into a downspin the Hawks couldn't recover from as they ended the year in Class 3A Region 8 volleyball action Monday night.
The Hawks fell 25-19, 25-18, 25-19 but were battling the Mustangs through the first game when the teams were tied five different times, the last time at 18.
Central Lee had an 18-13 lead, but then surrendered a 12-0 run with Davis County's Sophia Young serving the game out.
Freshman Taylor Jones got a kill to make it 18-13 to cap a five-point stretch for the Hawks, but that would be the last point they would get in game one. A long rally at 18-14 resulted in another point for Davis County when the Hawks block from Kenna Sandoval and Bailey Schwartz went wide out.
Young would serve the rest of the way, including back-to-back aces at 19-18 and 19-20. The Mustangs would get three kills in the run, and then an attack from the Hawks went wide to end the first game.
"We just let up a little bit and let them get through our blocks. Then we just couldn't regain our composure and couldn't fight through it," Head Coach Amy Cook said.
"Our hitters were moving things around, but they just have a really good defense."
The 12-0 run turned into a 16-0 run when Davis County came out in the second game, scoring the first four points, and then would push the lead to 14-6, forcing Cook to call a time out.
Davis County would come out of the break and score three straight to take a 17-6 lead and pulled away with Mustang senior Kayla Joos and Young taking turns pounding away at the Hawks at the net.
Joos would get a kill to the center court at 24-19 to end the second game.
The third game was much of the same as Davis County jumped out to a quick 7-1 lead. The Hawks would make a game of it, however, when Sandoval and Kodi Moeller put a block on the right side that fell clean to cut the lead to 17-14.
Davis County would pull away again and go up by as much as six when Stephyn Wilfawn scored on an attack from the left outside.
Moeller would get a kill and Sandoval would score on a push to cut it to 17-22. The Mustangs got the yips a bit trying to close out the match and allowed the Hawks back in it at 19-22.
But Young would get kills on two of the next three points, including the match winner, to send Central Lee home for the season.
Senior Makayla Morrison surpassed 750 kills for her career with 14 kills on the night. She also finishes the year perfect serving going 12 of 12 Monday with 19 digs, both team bests.
"She's valuable everywhere and it's just hard because when she's not up front, it hurts us," Cook said.
Morrison said the energy fell early for Central Lee.
"Our energy got down and we got down on ourselves and it just kept getting worse and worse," Morrison said.
She said she didn't know she was close to 750 kills until Cook told her before the match.
Schwartz had nine kills on the night and Jones finished with six. Schwartz had 20 digs and Jones had 16.
The Hawks will be losing six seniors, including Morrison, Mya Lampe, Alix Congdon, Karissa Moeller, Schwartz, and Karlie Pohren.
"It's hard coming to an end," Morrison said. "We've been together for a long time and we gelled together."
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