{"id":7859,"date":"2019-10-23T15:50:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T15:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=7859"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:28:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:28:37","slug":"coyotes-stay-composed-in-win-against-bullard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/coyotes-stay-composed-in-win-against-bullard\/","title":{"rendered":"Coyotes stay composed in win against Bullard"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Composure was the key word for the Madera Coyotes girls volleyball team in a win against the Bullard-Fresno Knights.<\/p>

The Coyotes climbed out of a seven-point deficit to force a tiebreaker in the first set Thursday night, survived another gritty effort from Bullard in the second set and dominated the third set to win 3-0 at home.<\/p>

\u201cI\u2019m actually very proud of them,\u201d Madera head coach Meghan Haas said. \u201cIt would have been very easy to roll over in both of those two first sets.\u201d<\/p>

The Coyotes\u2019 experience turned out to be a key factor in helping them stay composed against the younger Knights\u2019 team.<\/p>

\u201cThey weren\u2019t extremely rattled,\u201d Haas said. \u201cWe weren\u2019t playing great, but there was a little bit of grit, especially from our seniors. That\u2019s huge.\u201d<\/p>

Madera blew a 5-2 lead in the first set and found itself trailing 11-6. The Coyotes then broke a long scoring drought with back-to-back points from Brianna Guerrero and Isabella Saucedo, cutting the deficit to three points. With the teams tied at 20, Jade Davie\u2019s serve gave the Coyotes a 21-20 lead. After Bullard responded, Saucedo put the Coyotes back in the lead.<\/p>

Madera\u2019s Kaci Gonzalez gave her team set point, but Bullard\u2019s Emily Eltrich came back with a kill to tie the set at 24. After a back-and-forth action during the tiebreaker, Madera\u2019s Brianna Guerrero finished it off with a service ace and gave the Coyotes a 28-26 win in the first set.<\/p>

\u201cEven though we were down like seven points, we never let anyone get ahead of us because we know that we are a better team,\u201d Madera\u2019s Mariyah Alvarez said. \u201cWe never got down on ourselves.\u201d<\/p>

The Coyotes broke a 9-9 tie in the second set and scored five in a row to pull away from the Knights. But the Knights came back to force a 17-17 tie.<\/p>

After a long rally, Saucedo came up with a kill to give the lead back to the Coyotes. Saucedo scored two more points to give her team a 21-18 lead. The Coyotes then took the set 25-18.<\/p>

With Saucedo continuing to dominate and strong serving from Mariyah Alvarez, the Coyotes got off to another fast start in the third set.<\/p>

\u201cI feel like I did pretty well. There\u2019s always room for improvement, but I think I will always be good at serving,\u201d Alvarez said. \u201cWe are a really good serving team, so I think that really helped.\u201d<\/p>

After a Guerrero serve which gave the Coyotes an 18-4 lead, the Knights scored two in a row.<\/p>

Still, the Coyotes didn\u2019t let their opponents get any closer. Saucedo\u2019s final point of the game give the Coyotes a 24-9 lead. The game then came to an end with a service error by the Knights.<\/p>

Saucedo finished with 21 kills, while Guerrero added nine for the Coyotes.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Composure was the key word for the Madera Coyotes girls volleyball team in a win against the Bullard-Fresno Knights. The Coyotes climbed out of a seven-point deficit to force a tiebreaker in the first set Thursday night, survived another gritty effort from Bullard in the second set and dominated the third set to win 3-0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":40178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-7859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-schools"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}