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For a while, wins were popping up for the LBCC women’s volleyball team faster than rabbits appear on their campus—they’d won their last three, only losing a single set in those matches. <\/span>But Wednesday night they hosted the no. 2-ranked El Camino Warriors, who beat the Vikes three sets to none when they played in El Camino in early October, and they couldn’t get over the hump, losing 17-25, 17-25, 25-22, 22-25. <\/span>With the loss they fall to 13-6, and 6-4 in conference play, while the Warriors are now 21-1, and 10-0 in the SCC.<\/span><\/p>\n In the second set, the Vikings struggled to get into any kind of offensive rhythm, scoring on consecutive points only twice, which included a very late five-point run to make it respectable. <\/span>In the third set, it looked like it might be more of the same, as the Warriors went up 11-7—LBCC was making a lot of errors, and looked like maybe they packed it in. <\/span>But then, sparked by outside hitter Maricris Lapaix, they rattled off eight straight points, taking the lead 15-11—while the set got close, they never relinquished the lead on their way to a 25-22 win. <\/span>Lapaix took over the second half, along with fellow OH Lacy Baker. <\/span>But Lapaix was a story herself within the loss, tallying 26 kills, 10 digs and 4 blocks on the night. <\/span>“She was unstoppable,” said LBCC coach Mary Witmer afterward. <\/span>“That run was all about heart.”<\/span><\/p>\n Despite the rally, the Vikings went on to fall behind big again the fourth set—a 6-2 Warriors run to make it 10-5 came with the help of five Vikings errors—and this time they couldn’t recover, although they did pull very close at the end, on the strength of a late 9-3 run before the Warriors finally put them away. <\/span>There was a lot to be positive about in the loss, though, since they were so competitive and since their own mistakes were more responsible for disrupting their rhythm than El Camino was, a big shift from their first meeting. <\/span>“We really<\/i><\/span> wanted this,” Witmer said. <\/span>“We came out and played hard.”<\/span><\/p>\n They’ll need to keep it up if they want to make it out of next week. <\/span>They’re hosting Pasadena next Wednesday, and then traveling to Mt. 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