SCHULENBURG — The Schulenburg High School volleyball team hosted a scrimmage August 4 at Shorthorns Gym that included teams such as Brazos, Halletsville, and La Grange. The basketball court was separated into two halves with volleyball courts and each team played 25 minute scrimmages, then would switch to their corresponding court to play a different team.
Schulenburg first battled with Brazos and as no score was kept, it was apparent that Schulenburg had the upper hand in the match. “We have a different group out here, so I don’t think we say ‘oh, well we did this last year’. This is the group we have right now. Let’s see what we can do with them,” said Schulenburg head volleyball coach Donald Zapalac on building from last year’s state championship run.
“I think we’re gonna try to be a lot more versatile this year. We’re gonna run a lot more combo plays and I think the girls are really enjoying that right now. It’s really the first time we started throwing them out there today, so it’s new to them. They’re seeing some things there. I think that if we can serve tough and our serve-receive game is strong, I think our hitters are gonna take control of the game. As the day wore on, I think we kind of did a lot of that today. When our passing was on spot, we were able to run a lot of the combo plays we want to run and I think it’s gonna keep the other defenses off balance.”
