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Source: The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.儲存C.Sept. 04--SWANSBORO -- You can say Swansboro was inconsistent Tuesday night. Coach Kim Miller did. But you can also have to say this about the Pirates: They're undefeated.Five games into the volleyball season Swansboro has yet to lose, picking up victory No. 5 with a 3-0 win over a game White Oak squad in a Coastal 3-A Conference match.Swansboro won 25-17, 25-18, 25-20."We were inconsistent," Miller said. "We'd take a lead and then White Oak would fight back. We'd take a lead again and White Oak would fight back, or White Oak would take a lead and we'd climb back out of the hole we dug."Using the same analogy that (Southwest coach) Bev (Marley) used last week, we've got to mentally get rid of the shovel because eventually it's going to come back and bite us. But it shows a lot of maturity that they can still do it. They don't freak out. They have that confidence that no matter how deep the hole is that they can battle back."That's a good thing, but then again that could be a bad thing."On this night, it was a good thing for the Pirates, now 3-0 in their new conference following statewide realignment. But while Swansboro swept White Oak (2-3, 1-2), the Vikings didn't go down easily. The second set was tied 18-18 and the third was knotted 19-19."Everyone sort of showed some good stuff," WOHS coach Brenda Wickwire said. "Every player had great moments out there and then every player struggled a little bit, too. So it's just going to have to be a team thing. They're all going to have to decide to tighten up a little bit, hustle a little bit more, communicate a little bit better and we'll be okay."I will tell you ... they (the Pirates) are a good team. They work together well. They communicate with each other."But the Pirates can play better, sophomore Megan Malone said."We need to stay more focused, but we played good," she said, adding she liked this team's potential. "I think our team chemistry is back. I've heard in the years past ... that they've had some drama on the team. But our team this year we don't have any drama. We all love each other and we're all just one big family."The Pirates are indeed big, sporting a seemingly unlimited array of tall players -- or players who use their jumping ability to play taller than their listed heights -- led by Kylie Cleve on this night, along with Haley Stewart, Kim Moore and freshman Miranda Glover.Swansboro used that height to not only come up w新蒲崗迷你倉th hard kills but well-placed winners into open areas, which Miller said was indicative of a team that relied on more than just power, especially on a night when one of its top players (Ashley Oriol) was off her game."We have some very smart players," Miller said. "We've got some players who can go up and crank on it, but we also some people -- even the same people -- that can go up and the other team is expecting you to crank on it and you find that open hole and you chip it or roll-shot it there."We've got a lot of people that can contribute. Some people were off tonight. Other people came in and made up for it being an off night."On this night Swansboro jumped out to a 3-1 lead in the first set, but White Oak tied it 9-9 and trailed only 13-12 before the Pirates scored four straight points on a pair of kills by Moore, one by Cleve and an ace by Malone. Swansboro clinched the set on an ace by Alex Watkins.Both teams led by as many as three in the second set, which saw the Pirates score the final seven points to win, a surge that included two aces by Watkins -- the second of which seemed to start out of bounds, curve from outside the line before dropping just inside it.The third set saw the Vikings jump out to a 7-2 lead after two kills by Emily McLain and an ace by Essence Lowe. But Swansboro rallied to go up 16-13 only to see WOHS come back to tie it at 18 and 19. After a net ball by WOHS, Stewart made it 21-19 on a well-placed kill in the far back corner and then Emma Kitzmiller fired two aces and a service winner to help the Pirates clinch the match.While looking for more consistency, Miller said the Pirates have "great potential.""The sky's the limit for this team. As Megan stated, we are a family. We have each other's backs. We work through some adversity," Miller said. "And that's the thing, they're never going to say die. They're going to get balls that you don't think somebody's got a chance to get to. That's something that has also been a struggle in the past. They go all out."White Oak 17 18 20Swansboro 25 25 25LEADING PLAYERS--WO: McLain 9 kills, 6 hits; Earley 12 assists. S: Malone 5 kills; Rabidou 15 assists, 8 digs, 5 aces; Moore 6 kills, 3 aces, 7 digs; Stewart 3 kills. RECORDS--WO: 2-3, 1-2, at Northside today. S: 5-0, 3-0, at Southwest today.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 The Daily News (Jacksonville, N.C.) Visit The Daily News (Jacksonville, N.C.) at .jdnews.com Distributed by MCT Information Servicesmini storage