Orange Coast College's men's volleyball player Jake Melone (left) is a sophomore outside hitter from Loara High School and lead the team today with 19 kills. Melone is also a former Pirate of the Week that I had the honor to interview. I'm glad he won his last home game as a sophomore.
Travis Turner (right) is the head coach of the OCC men's volleyball team. He's always available for interviews and always helps me out in anyway possible.
Here's the interview after the game.
Today was the last game of the season and you guys came out with a victory. How do you guys feel about that?
Travis: I'm glad. I thought we played well and we tried a new lineup and I think it worked pretty well.
Jake: It's good. Just to play our last game on our home court - last game few of the guys are going to play (at OCC) - and we came out with a win. It was good.
I wanted to ask you guys about the problem the team's had of winning a game in a dominating fashion and then not winning the next ones.
Travis: Yeah, we've had that problem all year but we haven't came back to win after losing game two all year. So to do that tonight was a step forward.
And Jake, you've been talking about the "killer mentality" all year. Do you guys think you have that under control now?
Jake: I think we did have that tonight - not too much in the second game obviously - but as soon as we lost (game two), some of us got together, we were sick of us backing down and came back out with some attitude.
You guys were trailing game four for most of the time until you guys rallied back to tie it up at 20-20 and then went on to win the match. How big was that?
Travis: Well I think we finally got more serves in a row. I think Jake was serving at the time and kind of went on a run there. We've been trying to talk about understanding when to rip your serve and when to get it in and I thought we did a good job.
Jake: I just tried to keep my serve in and let our big guys at the net do their thing and they did it.
And next game against Moorpark...
Travis: That's going to be tough. They're good. They're pretty similar to us so we'll see. It's at their place which will be a good challenge for us.
Jake: I'm really excited to play there and beat them. It's a big game, I think we're ready for it, we're going to get at it at practice and just go over there and...
Travis: ...show them what's up.
Jake: Exactly.
[Photo by Tony Lee]
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