LA JARA— Centauri volleyball picked up a big league victory last Tuesday night, Oct. 10 in a 3-2 game over Alamosa.  
Alamosa has been putting forth a strong effort with varying degrees of success. Currently the Moose hold a 4-4 league record with wins over Montezuma-Cortez, Pagosa Springs and Monte Vista. This is Alamosa’s first game back from a four game weekend at the Queen of the Mountain tournament which was interconference featuring 1A all the way to 4A teams where Alamosa went .500.  
Both teams were champing at the bit from the first serve to the final spike. Centauri came out flat in the first set and Alamosa took advantage taking it 25-22 by scoring on serves while the Falcons did little more than force side-outs. The second and third set Centauri really found their rhythm as they put up points in clusters taking both sets by over 5 points.
But Alamosa refused to go away and battled in the fourth set and outpaced the Falcons 25-21 forcing a fifth set. Which in which both teams fought for but finally belonged to Centauri 15-10.
The Falcons were led on the attack by Ember Canty and Caroline Van Berkum. Canty posted 11 kills off her 39 attempts while Van Berkum was a very efficient 9 for 21. The Moose funneled chances to Sylvie Caton who went 14 for 42. Behind Caton it was Jordan Mobbley with 7 kills. From the service line Kaitlin Quinlan lead Centauri with 5 aces Caton led the Moose with 2. For Alamosa the defense was a team effort with Caton, Taylor Motz and Emily DePriest sharing the team lead of 2 blocks, it was Ember Canty for the Falcons with 2 as well.  
Centauri now seems to have a target on their back this being the second game in a row that they have been stretched to 5 sets, “They came out fighting” said Head Coach Candace Shaw “and we prepared all week for that and we prepared to come out fighting as well, especially with this rivalry it makes everything a little bit more intense.”