It wasn’t much better for the Panthers on Wednesday, as they once again played flat in a three-set loss to Megan Miller and the Alexandria-Monroe Tigers (18-25, 8-25, 16-25).
“It was up-and-down again [tonight],” Arnold said. “It’s been a frustrating week. We played well in the beginning – we played well against them and kept with them for most of the game – but at the end they kind of took it away. In the second game, we came out and we didn’t even score eight points, so [they haven’t] been consistent and they aren’t responding to adversity. When they started to make a few mistakes, they just went down and couldn’t pick themselves back up again.”
Coming off a two-week period where her team went 4-2 in six matches, Arnold feels that the team has regressed.
“The team hasn’t been relying on each other, so I think that has been affecting them this week,” Arnold said. “We didn’t see that the last two weeks. We had a great two weeks where we I thought we getting out of this slump that we were in before, [but] we fell right back into it.”
With six days before their next match, Arnold hopes that her team will find their way once again.
“I hope they find their way to fight and finish this season well, because we don’t have many games left before sectionals. I want them to leave it all out there.”
