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Mesquite Cactus

Wildcats

Cobras

The Cactus (Glendale, AZ) varsity volleyball team won Saturday's home non-conference match against Mesquite (Gilbert, AZ) by a score of 3-2.

This match is a part of the "2021 AIA (Arizona) Boys Volleyball Championships - 4A" tournament.

	S1	S2	S3	S4	S5	Wins
Mesquite	26	25	23	21	12	2
Cactus	24	18	25	25	15	3

Final score provided by S. AIA.

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Match Stats

Mesquite (20-21)

Mesquite has not entered stats for this match.

Cactus (20-21)

Cactus

Attacking

#	Athlete Name	SP	K	K/S	Kill %	Att	E	Hit %
	Team Totals	5	52	10.4		194	25
1	Jesse Gandara (Sr)	1
2	Bunch Justin (Sr)	5	1	0.2	7.7	13	2	-.077
3	Grant Steinmetz (Jr)	5	3	0.6	13.6	22	2	.045
4	Q. Briscoe (Sr)	5	9	1.8	39.1	23	3	.261
6	J. Vakameilalo (Jr)	5	10	2.0	27.0	37	8	.054
11	J. Record (Jr)	5			.0	6
12	Cylus Dattilo (Sr)	5	3	0.6	37.5	8	1	.250
13	Caleb Oaida (Sr)	5	1	0.2	10.0	10
14	Bradey Henige (Fr)	5	16	3.2	33.3	48	6	.208
16	Aki Pulu (Jr)	4	9	2.3	33.3	27	3	.222

Cactus

Serving

#	Athlete Name	SP	A	A/S	Ace %	SA	SE	Serv %
	Team Totals	5	10	2.0		109	17	84.4
1	Jesse Gandara (Sr)	1			.0	1
2	Bunch Justin (Sr)	5	3	0.6	37.5	8	1	87.5
3	Grant Steinmetz (Jr)	5	1	0.2	6.3	16	2	87.5
4	Q. Briscoe (Sr)	5			.0	12	1	91.7
6	J. Vakameilalo (Jr)	5	3	0.6	9.7	31	4	87.1
11	J. Record (Jr)	5			.0	8	1	87.5
12	Cylus Dattilo (Sr)	5
13	Caleb Oaida (Sr)	5	1	0.2	7.1	14	2	85.7
14	Bradey Henige (Fr)	5			.0	4	2	50.0
16	Aki Pulu (Jr)	4	2	0.5	13.3	15	4	73.3

Cactus

Blocking

#	Athlete Name	SP
	Team Totals	5
1	Jesse Gandara (Sr)	1
2	Bunch Justin (Sr)	5
3	Grant Steinmetz (Jr)	5
4	Q. Briscoe (Sr)	5
6	J. Vakameilalo (Jr)	5
11	J. Record (Jr)	5
12	Cylus Dattilo (Sr)	5
13	Caleb Oaida (Sr)	5
14	Bradey Henige (Fr)	5
16	Aki Pulu (Jr)	4

Cactus

Digging

#	Athlete Name	SP	D	D/S
	Team Totals	5	75	15.0
1	Jesse Gandara (Sr)	1
2	Bunch Justin (Sr)	5	6	1.2
3	Grant Steinmetz (Jr)	5	9	1.8
4	Q. Briscoe (Sr)	5	5	1.0
6	J. Vakameilalo (Jr)	5	16	3.2
11	J. Record (Jr)	5	5	1.0
12	Cylus Dattilo (Sr)	5
13	Caleb Oaida (Sr)	5	25	5.0
14	Bradey Henige (Fr)	5	3	0.6
16	Aki Pulu (Jr)	4	6	1.5

Cactus

Ball Handling

#	Athlete Name	SP	Ast	Ast/S	BHA	BHE
	Team Totals	5	48	9.6	156	5
1	Jesse Gandara (Sr)	1
2	Bunch Justin (Sr)	5			1
3	Grant Steinmetz (Jr)	5			3
4	Q. Briscoe (Sr)	5	1	0.2	3
6	J. Vakameilalo (Jr)	5	8	1.6	18
11	J. Record (Jr)	5	18	3.6	55	2
12	Cylus Dattilo (Sr)	5
13	Caleb Oaida (Sr)	5	3	0.6	13
14	Bradey Henige (Fr)	5
16	Aki Pulu (Jr)	4	18	4.5	63	3

Cactus

Serve Receiving

#	Athlete Name	SP	R	RE	R/S
	Team Totals	5	90	4	18.0
1	Jesse Gandara (Sr)	1
2	Bunch Justin (Sr)	5	19	1	3.8
3	Grant Steinmetz (Jr)	5	13	1	2.6
4	Q. Briscoe (Sr)	5
6	J. Vakameilalo (Jr)	5	14	1	2.8
11	J. Record (Jr)	5
12	Cylus Dattilo (Sr)	5
13	Caleb Oaida (Sr)	5	40	1	8.0
14	Bradey Henige (Fr)	5
16	Aki Pulu (Jr)	4	4		1.0

Match Story

Arizona High School Volleyball - Cactus tips Mesquite

May 8, 2021: Glendale, AZ 85306

Cactus Cobras (Glendale, AZ) supporters left the game in high spirits Saturday as they observed their volleyball squad hold off the visiting Mesquite Wildcats (Gilbert, AZ), 3-2 in a non-league match.

Next up, the Cobras clash with the American Leadership Academy Patriots (Queen Creek, AZ) in a non-league match, on Tuesday, May 11. Cactus will attempt to advance on its 12-3 season record. The Patriots come into the match with a 18-1 record after their 3-0 non-league win over American Leadership Academy - Ironwood (Ironwood, AZ).

With the loss, Mesquite drops to 12-5 on the campaign.

Rankings & Records

Mesquite (20-21)

National	AZ	Div.
468	33	9

Overall	Section	Home	Away	Win %	Section %	SW	SL
12-5	10-2	5-3	7-2	.706	.833	40	16

Cactus (20-21)

National	AZ	Div.
432	30	7

Overall	Section	Home	Away	Win %	Section %	SW	SL
12-4	9-1	6-1	6-3	.750	.900	39	17

Team Scoring Averages

	S1	S2	S3	S4	S5	Wins
Mesquite	22.8	23.9	22.7	19.3	12.0	2.4
Cactus	23.3	22.4	24.3	21.5	15.0	2.4

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Team Stat Comparison

Mesquite		Cactus
346	Kills	452
122	Total Blocks	78
89	Serving Aces	174
563	Digs	555
312	Assists	377
644	Receptions	605

Team Leaders

Mesquite		Cactus	National Avg.
#11 Tyler Bell92	Kills	#14 Bradey Henige121	35
#7 Kevin Codling51	Total Blocks	#12 Cylus Dattilo20	10
#2 Blake Warren22	Serving Aces	#6 Joesph Vakameilalo39	9
#2 Blake Warren237	Digs	#13 Caleb Oaida159	43
#24 Jayden Minarcik249	Assists	#16 Aki Pulu211	34
#2 Blake Warren237	Receptions	#13 Caleb Oaida219	56

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
Mesquite	0-3		Cactus	0-3

Date	Away	Home	Result	Date	Away	Home	Result
3/16/21	Mesquite	American Leadership Academy	(L) 3-0	5/11/21	Cactus	American Leadership Academy	(L) 3-1
4/8/21	American Leadership Academy	Mesquite	(L) 3-0
3/24/21	Northwest Christian	Mesquite	(L) 3-1	3/19/21	Northwest Christian	Cactus	(L) 3-1
				4/22/21	Cactus	Northwest Christian	(L) 3-0

Record Breakdown

Mesquite (20-21)		Cactus (20-21)
12-5	Overall	12-4
10-2	League	9-1
2-3	Non-League	3-3
0-1	Head to Head	1-0
0-3	Common Opponent	0-3
5-3	Home	6-1
7-2	Away	6-3
0-0	Neutral	0-0
0-0	Playoff	0-0
12-5	In-State	12-4
0-0	Out-of-State	0-0