There was fire and ice at the crosstown volleyball rivalry match Tuesday.
Texas High swept Pleasant Grove, 25-13, 25-21, 25-16, at Hawk Gym.
"I am ecstatic," Lady Tiger head coach Melissa Hardy said. "The girls played really good tonight, they came in fired up, and they executed; that is what we were looking for."
At one point, Pleasant Grove was down 10-0 in set two, but kept its cool to come back to tie the set at 21-all before Texas High finished it out.
"We are still working on jelling, but for them to come back and work hard in set two is something we need to do in the first set," Lady Hawk head coach Amy Collvins said. "Overall, I think we did well. We have a lot of growing room, but I'm proud of them."
Texas High finished with fire in the first set. After six ties early on, the Tigers broke away at 10-8 after Kaitlyn Cross sent a kill down the right baseline. A point later, Texas High scored four straight to make it 14-10.
Treyaunna Rush put down a kill later in the set to give the Tigers the serve back up 21-13. Rush blocked the next Hawk spike attempt, and put down a kill on the next point to give Texas High a 10-point lead.
Vicki Willis, who finished with 19 service points and 10 digs, served first for the Tigers in the second set. Willis rattled off 10 straight to give Texas High a 10-0 lead.
But Pleasant Grove did not stop battling and crept to within 13-6 and later 15-10. With the Tigers up 18-12, Pleasant Grove got the serve back on a hitting error.
With Macey Adams serving, Britton Anderson put down a kill, and a point later, Natalie Hale and Anderson blocked a Texas High spike to make it 18-15. After a pair of hitting errors the Tigers, who were once up 10-0, found themselves up by one, 18-17.
Later in the set, Anderson hit a kill down the back baseline, and Texas High committed a hitting error to knot the set at 21-all.
But the Tigers' Katelyn Jordan took to the servers box up 22-21, and Rush put down three straight kills to seal the set.
The 6-foot-1 Rush continued to dominated in kills in the third set for Texas High. Olivia Lower slapped a kill down the left side as the Tigers took a 16-11 lead. Later, Texas High built leads of 19-12 and 22-15.
The match ended on a Rush tip that went for a winner. Rush had 19 kills, 14 assists, six digs, and 12 service points for the Tigers.
Jordan served in 11 winners and made 18 assists, while teammate Cross had eight kills, five blocks and nine service points for Texas High.
Anderson paced the Hawks with 11 kills, Kaylee Kelley made 17 assists, Hale had five blocks, and Adams led PG in service points with five.
Macey Young served in eight points to lead Pleasant Grove to a 25-6, 25-20 win in the junior varsity match. Teammate Abbie Flourney served in seven winners.
Shakeria Webb paced the Tigers' junior varsity with seven service points.
Mariza Paez had nine service points as Texas High won the 9th grade match, 25-23, 25-20. Seagan Powell served in six winners for PG.
Pleasant Grove's varsity plays at New Boston Friday at 4:30 p.m.