Coyotes close home season with victory

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune

Madera’s Samuel McDonald rises up for a block during Thursday’s five-set win over Sanger West. McDonald led the Coyotes with 24 kills, including four in the deciding fifth set. 

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With the playoffs on the horizon, the young Madera Coyotes boys volleyball team closed out the regular season with a five-set victory over the Sanger West Hornets in Joe Flores Gym. 

In what would have been Senior Night for the Coyotes, the team celebrated a win in which they won the final two sets for the victory. The Coyotes, for the first time in head coach Rhonda Jefferson-Counsel’s long career, did not have a senior player. 

Madera suffered its lumps, but were in quite a few matches against teams with a lot of seniors, some with eight or nine.