SPORTS >> 314th AMXS capture volleyball championship

By Staff Sgt. Jacob Barreiro
19th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

The 314th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron’s intramural volleyball team smacked down the 19th Civil Engineer Squadron’s team  in the base intramural volleyball championship game, defeating them 25-7 and 25-22 in two consecutive matches to become league cham-pions June 5 at Little Rock Air Force Base.

The 314th AMXS came into the game with a stellar record, only losing once during the entire season. The 19th CES, the challenger in this instance, had to defeat the 314th AMXS twice in order to win the championship.

At the start of the contest the 314th AMXS raced down the road to the championship, laying it on to a disheveled opponent en route to amassing a huge lead. Supporters of the 19th CES watched and cheered their team on in frustration, expressing distress over their team’s chance of victory slipping away.

The 314th AMXS racked up 10 points before the 19th CES was able to respond with one of their own, but it didn’t boost them into competition in this game. The 314th AMXS kept laying it on, with nothing fancy, just traditional sets, bumps and spikes, en route to a 20-3 lead.

Downtrodden and dejected, the 19th CES tried to muster a rally, but couldn’t make up for their early mistakes, and the 314th AMXS easily captured the first match 25-7.

The break in-between marches seemed to give the 19th CES a boost, as they came out sharper in the second game. They kept pace with their opponents early and often, and resiliently rebounded from any mistakes they made, unlike the first game. They displayed this resiliency when, down 13-8, they bounced back to tie up the game.

From then on the game was hotly contested, with ties at 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 points apiece.

Unfortunately for them, the 19th CES was unable to sustain their muster and dropped several points in a row, digging a hole they couldn’t emerge from. The 314th AMXS won the match 25-22 and emerged as base intramural volleyball champions.