The No. 7 Westside volleyball team lost in four sets to top-ranked Papillion-LaVista South on Wednesday, Sept. 20. This was a top 10 showdown and a rematch of the 2022 Class A state championship match.. 

The Warriors came up with an impressive win in the opening set 25-21. Papio South woke up in the second set, after being tied at 9 all, the Titans scored eight straight points. The Warriors fought back and kept it close, but they lost 25-18. The Titans won the final two sets 25-14 and 25-13.

Senior Tatum Godinez, who led the Warriors with nine kills explains about how the whole game went. 

“We talked about our game plan, what we were gonna do as a team,” Godinez said. “We did that a lot in the first set and then it kind of went away as the game went on. We need to get better at staying focused with our game plan and just doing that throughout the whole game.” 

The Warriors have been seen as a very physical, and well coached team. With a first set win, the Warriors caught the Titans off guard with their physicality. The Warriors got a lot of praise from Papillion-LaVista south head coach Katie Tarman. 

“Westside’s a good team,” Tarman said. “They’re very physical, they have a big presence at the net. They served us very tough which, I don’t think we were ready for. I think it took us a minute to realize that they were ready to go and we weren’t quite so ready, so they are a good team,”

After taking third place in the Allison Weston Invitational over the weekend, the Warriors will travel to Omaha Benson on Tuesday.