Parkersburg South’ freshman Jess Price manages to maintain a ball alive throughout the Patriots’ 3-0 setback to Warren on Wednesday night inside Rod Oldham Athletic Center. (Photo by Jay W. Bennett)
PARKERSBURG – Warren volleyball head coach Ann Skufca watched her squad win its tenth straight match right here Wednesday night to open the season because the Warriors swept Parkersburg South by scores of 25-10, 25-20 and 25-19 inside Rod Oldham Athletic Center.
Sydney Starcher registered a match-high 15 kills whereas Elayna Greenwalt had 14 downed spikes together with a trio of aces.
“We play (Thursday) at John Marshall. A long bus ride and another West Virginia school,” mentioned coach Skufca, who acquired eight kills from Taylor Greenwalt together with 34 assists from Mya Stemple. “We’ll hopefully be capable of have a superb flip round. The essential factor is with this crew they proceed to jell collectively on the courtroom and that’s what groups that proceed success do, and I couldn’t be extra pleased with them.
“Every set is a chance to go ahead and continue to improve and that’s exactly what they were doing tonight along with jelling some more. It’s good to have Mya Stemple come in and take over Payge Cornell’s spot, who graduated last year. Big shoes to fill, but Mya has stepped right into those. She’s doing a phenomenal job.”
Shyanne Hays, who’s the lone returning starter for PSHS head coach Emily Tracewell, registered a match-high 5 aces and likewise led the hosts with 10 kills. Teammate Payton Mackey, who missed final 12 months because of shoulder surgical procedure, chipped in 5 downed spikes.
Warren’s Elayna Greenwalt ideas the ball previous an tried double block by Parkersburg South throughout the Warriors’ sweep on Wednesday night inside Rod Oldham Athletic Center. (Photo by Jay W. Bennett)
“I think they are definitely one of the best teams that we’ll play this season,” coach Tracewell mentioned of the Warriors. “We all the time say that we are attempting to determine that one lineup that we’re going to be utilizing on the finish of the season so we all the time make a number of modifications all through the start of the season to determine what’s going to work finest for us.
“I think we were able to see a lot of positive things tonight and see what we can work on. Once we started getting there, closing the block a little more in that third set, then our defense was able to do a little bit more and our offense was able to run, but just being quick on the court and having confidence in our teammates, and I think once we start doing that then it will start clicking for them a little bit more.”
A Mackey kill from considered one of Alaina Knapp’s 17 assists tied the opening set at one, however Warren tallied 11 of the subsequent 13 factors and by no means seemed again.
Parkersburg South, which dropped to 2-4 and has a ten a.m. triangular on Saturday again on the ROAC versus Linsly and Wheeling Park, jumped forward 6-2 in set two. Hays had 4 of her kills within the spurt and Lexi Smith added one.
Following a Patriot service error, Warrior libero Remi Elzey toed the service line along with her crew trailing 7-5, however she served for six consecutive factors and following her ace that made it 11-7 coach Tracewell referred to as timeout.
Parkersburg South freshman Aubree Harner bumps the ball throughout the Patriots’ 3-0 setback to Warren on Wednesday night inside Rod Oldham Athletic Center. (Photo by Jay W. Bennett)
A Mackey tip kill by way of an Aubree Harner help in addition to a pair of aces by Hays pushed the Patriots again in entrance at 12-11, however Elayna Greenwalt broke a 13-all tie with a downed spike and ended the set by way of one other kill.
PSHS libero Natalie Lauer’s ace earned the opening level of set three, however Elayna Greenwalt had a run of 5 straight, which included back-to-back aces, because the guests pushed forward 7-2.
Coach Tracewell watched her crew battle again from a 19-11 deficit. It was 23-19 following a block and a kill by Mackey, however Elayna Greenwalt completed the match with two extra downed spikes.
Warren, which performs host on Tuesday to Waterford, has solely had one crew (Meigs) take a set from them within the early going.
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Warren libero Remi Elzey serves up an ace within the second set of the Warriors’ sweep of Parkersburg South on Wednesday night inside Rod Oldham Athletic Center. (Photo by Jay W. Bennett)
Parkersburg South’s Shyanne Hays had a match-high 5 aces throughout the Patriots’ 3-0 setback to Warren on Wednesday night inside Rod Oldham Athletic Center. (Photo by Jay W. Bennett)
Warren’s Sydney Starcher pushes the ball throughout the web throughout the Warriors’ sweep of Parkersburg South on Wednesday night inside Rod Oldham Athletic Center. (Photo by Jay W. Bennett)