Game 6: Melrose 3 Burlington 0

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Melrose hosted Burlington without its All-State attacker Grace Seaman and emerged victorious 25-18, 25-12, and 25-16. The win boosts Melrose to 5-1 and Burlington drops to 3-3. 

Burlington led early, 11-8 when Scott Celli took a time out. The break helped clear the fog. With the score tied at 11, this Emme Boyer attack off an out-of-system Alex Homan set helped launch a run leading to the first set win. 

In the second set with the score knotted at ten, the Sabine Wenzel show began with a variety of tips, taps, and smashes as she dominated the second half of the stanza. 

 

Trailing 14-15 in the third set, Melrose and Sofia Papatsoris got untracked with this sequence. 

This started an 11-1 run with more Papatsoris attacks unleashed leading to the 25-16 final. 

The match's only consistency was inconsistency. Burlington was undersized and undermanned and Melrose couldn't capitalize until the latter phases of each set. 

MVB Notes: The goals remain the same - improve, compete, and win the last game. "Only children and fools judge things half done."