If you cannot conquer them, effectively, just roll with it and have enjoyment.

That seemed to be Mattituck’s attitude in pool enjoy Saturday in the New York State Community High School Athletic Affiliation girls volleyball championships.

“Yeah, it would be seriously interesting to get states,” senior setter Lilly Fogarty explained, “but we realized sort of coming in a great deal of the groups ended up a very little little bit much better than us, had the top, like overpowering, but we started off off a minimal gradual and didn’t actually live up to our probable, but in the stop we were being just variety of playing for fun.”

The Tuckers knew what they were up against. They comprehended the odds were being stacked in opposition to them, so why not just make the most effective of it?

Even soon after dropping all 6 of their sets in Class C at Great Insuring Arena in Glens Falls and failing to progress, Mattituck’s gamers stored a beneficial frame of mind about reaching their seventh condition match and what they accomplished this year.

“Zero and six, but we’re however fourth in the condition, Course C,” stated Fogarty.

Mattituck gained a rough introduction to the 4-team pool, dropping sets to Fonda-Fultonville, 25-12, 25-17. It didn’t get simpler following that. Millbrook hammered the Tuckers, 25-8, 25-11. And then Portville shut out its perfect 6- run in the afternoon session by beating Mattituck, 25-10, 25-15.

“As I generally say, if you’re ending your season at the [state] match, then it is a successful time,” Mattituck coach Frank Massa said. “Things didn’t perform out the way we would have appreciated, then once again, the level of competition is extremely fierce. We had an chance in a pair of sets to try and hold our have. We held our possess for most of the sets, but I believed two of the sets we must have been a tiny a lot more competitive. We really should really have taken a person of those people sets,…