The lady Pirates are off to a good start by defeating Glendale College 25-5, 25-18 and 25-13 in its home and season opener today (Sept. 9) at the Peterson Gym.
Chuck Cutenese is the head women's volleyball coach at OCC and is in his 18th season.
Which team are you guys? The one that won by 20, 7 or 12?
I think one of our strengths is that there are a lot of sophomores and they're really familiar. We're going surprise a lot of teams and that's what we did in the first game. But they were a little bit nervous, they settled down, we got a little complacent and the third game we picked it up; so right now, we're all three of those teams. Our goal is to be that first team - real focused and well disciplined.
Name one thing you guys did good and one thing you guys did bad.
I thought we served really well and I thought we need to tip and roll-shot better.
It looks like you designed a lot of plays for Briana Fields. Is that a fair indication of how the season will go?
Well it's not just Bri, but Bri's very explosive and jumps fast and quick. She's someone we gave the ball to a lot last year so no surprise we're doing that. We are much more evenly divided this year than last year. The rule of thumb is to set whoever has the hot hand. (Fields) was putting the ball away early so we kept giving her the ball.
You've said the net work needs work for the team but it looks like the team played well in that aspect today.
(Glendale) was setting up (No.) 2 and 11 a lot so it gave us more time to just key in on that. We weren't really challenged in that respect but we got some things at the net we need to work on.
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