Adena & Zane Trace Volleyball Win District Championships
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The SVC will have two volleyball teams in the Division 5 Regionals Thursday at Logan High School, and will play each other. (22-3) Adena swept (19-6) New Lexington 26-24, 25-18, 25-19 for their bracket championship, and (14-11) Zane Trace took down (21-4) Huntington 18-25, 25-21, 25-21, 21-25, 15-8 to claim their bracket and advance to play the Warriors in the regional semis.
(23-2) Wheelersburg swept (19-6) Fairland in the first of three D-5 district finals Saturday at Waverly High School.
In Division 6, (23-2) South Webster beat (16-9) Southeastern 3-0 (25-19, 25-22, 25-13).
Adena 3, New Lexington 0 (26-24, 25-18, 25-19)
The Warriors used their middle hitting combination of Corinne Day and Katie Burns as they had 21 and 16 kills respectively to propel the offense. Caroline Glandon added 3 kills and Adyson Wisecup 2.
Burns and Day also had success slowing down the bigger Panthers front line, as Burns had 6 blocks and Day with 3. Glandon added 2 blocks. The defense was highlighted by Kimmy Dalton’s 26 digs, Kamryn Sowers 11, Jacey Smith 10, Kayla Grooms 9, and Glandon with 7. Grooms also had 19 assists and Kortney Sowers with 16 assists and 2 aces.
New Lexington’s offense was led by Chloe Dick with 12 kills, Lena Fink with 10, an Caroline Dupler 9.
While Adena only had 3 ace serves in the match, their serving did get New Lexington’s offense out of system a number of times that prevented their front line from having a good attack. The Warriors back row defense was also stellar, digging up the Panthers’ hitters on numerous occasions.
Set 1 found New Lexington up 4-2, but Adena grabbed the momentum after 6-6 for a 14-9 advantage. The Panthers rallied for ties at 17-17, 18-18, 20-20, and had set-point at 24-21. But, the Warriors stormed back for the opening 26-24 victory. A hitting error by New Lex, followed by back-back blocks from Burns tied it 24-24. Burns then finished with an attack kill, and then another kill off a New Lex overpass for the win, that appeared to set the tide of momentum for the Warriors the rest of the match.
Set 2 was even at 8-8 before Adena took off for a lead that extended to 22-12. New Lex cut that deficit to 23-17, only to see the Warriors close out a 25-18 win.
The third and final set had Adena with a lead of 5-1 before the Panthers managed to close the gap to within 7-6, then later and later 14-13. After a 17-13 spread, the Warriors started to sputter for a few minutes with New Lex pulling to with 18-16, resulting in an Adena timeout. Following the break, the Warriors went on a 5-0 run for a 23-16 advantage, only to see the Panthers last gasp fall short in a 25-19 match sweep win.
The win is Adena’s 6th straight district crown and 38th district championship in school program history.
Zane Trace 3, Huntington 2 (18-24, 25-21, 25-21, 21-25, 15-8)
The Pioneers lost both of their regular season matches to Huntington, the first time in four sets and the other in five. For the eighth time this season, the Huntsmen played in a five set match, losing for only the second time in a maximum length match.
While both teams had their share of errors, Zane Trace won the battle at the net as they had three hitters with double-digit kills. Kailee Johnson had 17 kills and 3 blocks, Karlee Snavely and Addison Platt each had 15 kills and 2 blocks. Laynie Scott added 4 kills and Madison Mash had 3 blocks. Kerrigan Hill had 29 digs and Snavely added 17.
Huntington senior Kaci Carroll had 21 kills and 14 digs, Allie Baker 11 kills and 15 digs, Lydia Black and Brailee Hauswirth each had 9 kills, Kayla White 6 kills, Victoria White 2, and Leah McCloskey with 1. The Huntsmen served 8 aces and Zane Trace 5.
Set 1 had Huntington in the lead most of the way, with Zane Trace drawing close at 6-5, 10-9, and 15-14. An 8-3 Huntsmen run to stretched their advantage to 23-17 and closed for the 25-21 decision to even the match at (1-1).
The Pioneers bounced right back, taking Set 3 by the identical 25-21 score. Huntington had a golden opportunity to grab a (2-1) match lead when they built a late lead of 18-16, and 20-18. But, the Pioneers clawed their way back to 20-20 and 21-21, before closing on a 4-0 run for the 25-21 victory.
Set 4 was Huntington’s most of the way with margins of 7-8 points. Zane Trace did cut the deficit to 23-20, but the Huntsmen 25-21 decision evened the match at (2-2) and sent it to the fifth an deciding set.
Zane Trace came storming out of the gate in Set 5 with tough serving, blocking and attacking that took Huntington’s offense out of system, along with an unstoppable performance by Kailee Johnson in the middle, both hitting an blocking. Following a 7-1 ZT start in Set 5, the Pioneers controlled most of the final stanza as they won 15-8 to win the match.
South Webster 3, Southeastern 0 (25-19, 25-22, 25-13)
Elsewhere involving SVC volleyball teams, the (16-9) Southeastern Panthers fell to (22-2) South Webster in straight sets for the Division 6 district championship (25-19, 25-22, 25-13). The Panthers were led by Kylee Dunn’s 10 kills, Reese Ruckel had 5 kills, 2 blocks, Jozy Lougheed 3 kills, 9 assists, 10 digs and 2 aces, Gracie Brown 8 digs and 5 assists, Calley Stauffer 12 digs, and Macy Strausbaugh 10 assists and 5 digs.
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