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Practice makes perfect: Barnstable volleyball wins league tournament
By Matt Goisman
Cape Cod Times
SOUTH YARMOUTH - Tom Turco knew his team had it long before Barnstable’s girls volleyball team stepped on the court. The Red Hawks held their last practice of the season Thursday night, swapping the typical three nets used simultaneously for just one that kept the entire team together for the entire practice.
It was, in Turco’s words, “the best practice of the year.”
“It was at that moment I knew they were going to win,” Turco said. “They were so together.”
That prediction proved correct 24 hours later, as Caroline Kiehnau’s 16 kills and 5 aces powered No. 2 Barnstable to a 25-20, 25-17, 26-24 win over the previously undefeated No. 1 Dennis-Yarmouth Dolphins in the Cape & Islands League Atlantic Tournament girls volleyball championship on Friday night.
Finding a new varsity boys basketball head coach was one of Neil Murphy’s first tasks when he took over as Sandwich High School’s athletic director for the 2013-14 school year. Murphy ultimately looked within the program to find his man, elevating then-freshman coach Dennis Green to the top spot for the upcoming season.
Green quickly found success with the Blue Knights, winning the Atlantic Coast League each of his first two seasons and leading the team to the postseason six times in seven seasons through the 2019-20 winter.
“We loved his passion and his knowledge for the game,” Murphy said. “He was always so excited to get to the gym, and I think that excitement rubbed off on his teams over the years and got them energized and excited to practice and compete.”