SIDE-OUT, POINT HUSKIES. (I could have used "People respond to incentives, but then I could probably head each post that way, hmmm, April Fool's Day is coming...) High school volleyball games will be decided using rally scoring (in which there is a point on each serve, no more service breaks (which volleyball calls a"side out") with the opportunity to score only with the serve (which is still the rule in tennis.)) Kettle Moraine Lutheran High coach Doug Hext sees a difference: "It makes our practices go quicker, it makes more emphasis on playing better defense and it puts more pressure on making your serves." Quite so. Under the old rules, a team could serve aggressively, and not suffer a penalty for serving into the net or out of bounds, and then gain only the opportunity to score by breaking the opponent's serve. Under the new rules, the serving team gives up a point for such an error and gets it back for breaking the other team's serve. Because there are only thirty points to give, the new rules provide a penalty for error that was not present in the old rules. The article also notes some research into why advocates of the new rules believe matches will be shorter.