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Beth
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WARE SHOALS - With her team
trailing early, Ninety Six High School volleyball coach Beth Miller got up off
the bench, walked toward the sideline and seemed destined to call a timeout - or
at least shout instructions to her players.
Instead, Miller
did nothing and let her Wildcats play.
Eventually, Ninety Six
erased a six-point deficit to win the first set en route to a three-set sweep
against Ware Shoals 25- 20, 25-5, 25-8 on the road Thursday.
"I'm trying to see if they can get
themselves out of a hole," Miller said. "We're growing and I'm trying to coach
them up. It's like I told them on a timeout, 'I want to see you make things
happen instead of what they are doing.' Just trying to see if they can grow up
and put their big-girl panties on and pull themselves out of a hole."
Ware Shoals broke a 4-all tie with eight of the next
10 points, which nearly prompted Miller to take action. But then, the Wildcats
(2-0 overall) notched three consecutive points, capped off by a kill from Shyann
Luster, to force Ware Shoals coach Patricia Wirszyla to call a timeout.
Ninety Six, later, recorded nine of the final 10
points to claim the first set.
"We just weren't off the bus
yet, we were still tired," Ninety Six's Anna Grace Bryant said of the slow
start. "We weren't very, like, relax, we're just all uptight and we weren't
ready to play. But then we got ready to play."
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