Playoff Match: Redwood vs. Del Norte

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Below are five players from a recent CIF playoff match:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>[player_tooltip player_id='161020' first='Audrey' last='Hyde']</strong> | 5'10" | 2024 | OH | Redwood High School</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>A left handed hitter that squarely hits an over the shoulder set on the left side as [player_tooltip player_id='161020' first='Audrey' last='Hyde'] does is a pillar to stabilize an offense. Hyde hits a classic playset too. Specifically, the play: combination two. She leans away from the ball before contact during the majority of attack attempts. This movement gives a slight delay to contact that still allows her to hit line or cross. Most of her attacks avoid the block as she takes on a backrow defender one on one.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Andee May</strong> | 2026 | MB | Redwood High School</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Andee May makes for a quick presser across the net. In other words, she can block the vision of opposing hitters by getting her arms across the net early in a hitter's armswing. Additionally, May turns her outward going momentum back into the court very well. This turns what might be a score for the hitter into a block in the middle of the opponent's court. She touches a height of the second white on the antenna.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Kennedy Cutler</strong> | 5'6" | 2024 | DS/OH | Redwood High School</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Like her teammate on the rightside, Kennedy Cutler leans away into the majority of her attack attempts. She begins her approach much further off the net than most. Specifically, the x spot of her approach is sometimes are far as 22-24 feet away from the net. The length of that approach is much the same though. In conclusion, Cutler begins her launch angle into an over the net attack from nearly eight feet away from the net.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Kora Wong</strong> | 2026 | OH/DS | Del Norte High School</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>If leaning back near the point of contact was not see enough, watch Kora Wong dig the ball. This movement is a method to absorb the hard driven attacks from the Rangers hitting. When the hit comes from the leftside, Wong more often than not contacts the midline. This happens while she is positioned in left back. When the hit comes from nearly anywhere else, that being less straight on, she contacts for the dig on the leftside of her body.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Emma Tilford</strong> | 5'10" | 2024 | MB | Del Norte High School</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Having the time to rotate and turn a set to the opponent's right back as Emma Tilford displays a great ability of control. She does also hit with power and no body rotation just slightly left of the center. When Tilford can get up quickly, her rotation or choice not to rotate her body makes an interesting hitter/blocker matchup. When blocking, she reaches into a seam well giving her backrow defenders a chance on a quick set to the antenna. She touches a height of the first red on the antenna.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->