It isn’t much of a secret, at least not to coach Tricia Palotti. She knows her Bayside girls’ volleyball team has a tendency to play to the level of its opponent. She saw its bad side in a two-set loss against middling PSAL Queens 6-A opponent Townsend Harris on Oct. 15.
“We definitely shouldn’t have lost,” Palotti said.
But when the Commodores are playing against high level of competition, they’re quite formidable. On Sunday, they were very good. Bayside beat Kennedy, 25-20, 16-25, 25-21, in the final of JFK’s host tournament in the Bronx. Kennedy was ranked No. 2 in the PSAL in last week’s FiveBoroSports.com top 10.
The Commodores had two second-place finishes in tournaments this season: one at Cardozo and the other at the first Seward Park tourney.
“They were tired of coming in second place,” Palotti said with a laugh.
Bayside, which is 6-3 in Queens 6-A, swept Kennedy and Hillcrest in pool play and defeated Lehman in the tournament’s semifinals.
“They played a very consistent game,” JFK coach Iris Bromfield. Read more..
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