By SHAN SEMAN<\/p>\n
Staff Reporter<\/p>\n
Cover Girls stamped their class in the 2002 season of the Rocball tournament sweeping Carokese in their championship series last Saturday at the Marianas High School Gymnasium. <\/p>\n
They massacred their opponents 88-57 in the second game after bamboozling Carokese to the tune of 43-22 win in the opener, both played in the same day.<\/p>\n
In a high scoring second game, the Cover Girls won a tight first set, 25-17. Both teams played hard and with a lot of intensity, but the Cover Girls were able to squeeze out the victory.<\/p>\n
However, Carokese wouldn’t go down easily as they stormed back to win the second set, 22-18. <\/p>\n
Carokese tried to continue their hot streak in the third set, but the Cover Girls were just too much to handle as they took the set with ease, 23-10.<\/p>\n
Cover Girls took their momentum into the fourth set and had no trouble putting away the game, 22-8.<\/p>\n
Somol was impressive as she finished as the game’s heavy hitter with 2 aces, 3 kees, 1 goal, and 3 jams for 16 points. Teammate Sharma Iginoef also had a solid outing as she finished with 2 aces, 3 kees, a goal, and a jam for 14 points.<\/p>\n
Tashia Kapileo led the way for Carokese with 5 aces, 2 xunks, and a kee for 16 points. <\/p>\n
In the first game of the finals, Cover Girls quickly got off to a good start and made a statement as they blew past their rival team, 12-0.<\/p>\n
They continued their aggressive intensity in the second set as they showed no weakness en route to a 15-5 win.<\/p>\n
But Carokese was not intimidated, and finally found their rhythm as they won the third set in convincing manner, 14-3.<\/p>\n
They had the chance to force the game into o-kon with a fourth set win, but Cover Girls\u2019 Jennifer Somol had other plans, leading her team to victory, 13-3.<\/p>\n
Somol and teammate Mary Natachuo were the games heavy hitters as each of them finished with 10 points. Somol had 2 aces, a, kee, a goal, and a jam, while Natachuo had 4 aces and a kee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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