The Hilltoppers drop a 10-25, 20-25 decision to the Pioneers of New Providence in their home and season opener.
The start of the first game set the tone for the entire match as the Hilltoppers could not muster consistent passing and were trailing 11-0 within the first 10 minutes of the match. Summit finally broke serve. The string of 11 points saw the Pioneers hit for 4 aces and SHS commit 5 errors.
The rest of the game was fairly close as SHS actually outscored the Pioneers 10-8 but another late run by New Providence fueled by 3 kills closed out the set 25-10.
The second set was by far a better performance by the squad. Val Guzman's serving was again a key to the early success of the Hilltoppers as 3 aces helped Summit jump out to an early 5-2 lead. The Pioneers then went on a 7-2 run sparked by 4 aces of their own to take the lead 9-7. In a game filled with runs, SHS had the next one, a 5-0 run, fueled by a couple of Casey Nardino kills that seemingly had the Hilltoppers in a good position at 12-9 but New Providence rallied with a 6-3 run to knot things up at 15. A kill by Angela Scott had SHS up by 1 at 16-15 but the lead was short lived as Summit then allowed New Providence to go on a 7-0 run thanks to 2 Pioneer aces and 3 kills which put the game and match seemingly out of reach at 22-16. Summit rallied though and cut the lead to 3 at 23-20 behind the serving of Gabby Mejia and another kill by Nardino but a hitting error later the Pioneers found themselves at the doorstep to a win which they promptly took after another bad pass by Summit permitted the Pioneers to get a final kill to seal the game and match.
Summit travels to Plainfield on the 10th of September to try to even out their record in the division and the season.
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