Volleyball (Girls V/JV) Scores
By Jason Watson | Oct 2, 2024 12:39 AM
Varsity vs Whitko High School (3 - 2) Win The Lady Braves volleyball team was at Whitko Tuesday and came away with a five set win 23-25, 25-9, 25-20, 23-25, 15-5. After having a large lead in the initial set, the Braves failed to terminate the ball consistently and allowed Whitko to make long service runs to drop set one. Set two saw the girls play with confidence to easily win the set. Set three was closer but we held control throughout. The fourth set we were playing catch-up to draw even at 23 before losing the last two points to force a decisive fifth set. We were able to win the fifth set in convincing fashion to secure the road TRC win. The Braves offense was led by Alyssa Birner with 12 kills and Middles Katelyn Greis and Ireland Kile each downing nine kills. Kile added five blocks and Greis blocked three balls as our Middles dominated the net. Emma Zeiser also tallied eight kills from the OH position. Setters Delaney Betzner and Averie Maiben ran our offense and had 19 and 17 assists respectively. Libero Addie Maiben tallied 25 digs and 30 serve receptions and DS Aubrey Kaiser dug up 20 balls and had 13 receptions. Our service game included 13 aces with Addie Maiben leading the way with five aces and Betzner adding four service aces. The JV team had a rough first set but finished strong to start the night with a win 13-25, 25-23, 16-14. Lucee Jernagan led the attack with nine kills and Kira Ropes added six kills. Naomi Cook served four aces in the win. The Braves are now 15-8 and 5-3 in the TRC. Our next match is Thursday at home vs Northfield.