Despite giving Cerritos College women’s volleyball team a run for its money in one game. Santa Ana still ended up getting whipped in the two games 29-17, 29-8 and 30-23.

Athletic Director Jeanine Prindle said that Friday’s match against Sacramento City College at Cerritos was canceled, because Sacramento would not be able to fly to Southern California. “The game will not be made up, because both of the teams are in different conferences and they will not have the time to make-up the game.”

In the first game middle blocker/right sitter Michelle Perkins tied the game at 2-2 with a kill. Then she had another kill that gave the Falcons a 6-4 led.

Offensive hitter Arelyn Gallardo made the score 9-6 on a serve. The Falcons blew out Santa Ana in the first game 29-17.

In the second game Perkins made the score 3-0 on a block.

Middle blocker/Offensive hitter Tiffany Amete give the Falcons a 7-2 lead with a kill.

Then Perkins made the score 12-4 on a kill.

Setter Berlin Mika helped the Falcons destroy Santa Ana’s hopes of winning the second game on a kill, making the final 29-8.

In the third game Perkins and Amete gave the Falcons a 1-1 tie on a double block. Then Amete tied the game at 9-9 with a block.

Middle blocker Vanessa Cid helped the Falcons finish the game with a block, giving the falcons a 30-23 win.

Falcon head coach Teresa Ortega said, “I think we are improving a lot by playing the tournament at Arizona. It helped us build a better team.”

She said that for the Cypress Tournament the team needs its serves, because every serve that the team misses the other gets one point, and controlling the ball.

Amete said that the team did pretty good. “For the Cypress Tournament we need to work on our passing. Everything went well.”

Falcon middle blocker/right setter Michelle Perkins said, “I think we worked better as a team, we were all talking to each other.”

She said that for the Cypress Tournament the team needs to work on talking to each other and its serving, and the team needs to be ready for anything.

The Falcons will take part in the Cypress Tournament Saturday at Cypress College.