The Hilltoppers tied the number of wins they had earned last year with a 2-0 victory over the Roselle Rams yesterday. Summit won 25-20, 25-15 and improved their road record to 3W-5L for the year. The team has now earned 12 wins thus far in the past 2 seasons, 4 wins more than the prior 2 seasons,
The squad started off with a bang as Angela Scott passed a perfect ball to Gabby Mejia who set her up for the match's first kill and the 1-0 SHS lead. SHS got up 2-0 after a Valerie Guzman ace and the 2 point lead was par for the course through the early stages of this set as service errors and hitting errors prevented the Hilltoppers from extending the lead.
Grace Galuppo hit for an ace near the midpoint of the match and Casey Nardino slammed a kill to open up a 13-7 lead, the largest of the set. The lead was, however, short lived. The Rams came charging back with 2 aces and with the help of 3 consecutive passing errors by Summit, Roselle had tied up the score at 14. But Roselle wouldn't go away and actually took the lead 18-19 on an ace but a hitting error knotted things up at 19 again. Rau Soares stepped up and got the set under control as she served the next 5 points, including 2 aces, to give SHS an insurmountable lead at 24-19. Summit wasn't able to close it out until a few points later but the set was well in hand at 25-20.
Nardino, Scott and Gartenberg all hit for 2 kills in a balanced Summit attack and the team hit for 7 aces as Guzman, Soares and Galuppo all hit for 2 aces apiece.
Set 2 started rather nicely for the Hilltoppers as the team opened up a 4-1 lead behind Tabatha Meneses who hit for an ace and was then followed by a Casey Nardino kill. Roselle used 3 consecutive aces to get a 6-5 lead but SHS responded with an Alana Gartenberg kill, 2 straight aces by Nardino and 2 kills by Sterling Sidebottom to open up a 12-6 lead. After a switch of serve had the score flip to 13-7, Sandra Bazalar ripped the set open with 6 straight service points, hitting for 2 aces and allowing the Hilltoppers to convert easy free ball opportunities as Angela Scott nailed 2 kills to extend the lead to 19-9. Although the Rams were able to break serve, the celebration was short-lived as Summit got the lead back up to 22-10 after 2 Grace Galuppo aces. The writing was on the wall and the last few points were academic. Gartenberg and Nardino added kills in the tail end of the match to seal the deal as SHS took the set and match 25-15.
Summit hit for 9 kills in the set at a .286 efficiency and added 7 aces while serving at 88% and only giving up 3 aces. Amanda Fonseca and Gabby Mejia chipped in with 6 of SHS's 13 digs in the set to pace the defense.
Alana Gartenberg paced the offense for the match at 5 kills and Grace Galuppo led the ace barrage with 4 aces. Summit only served at 85% for the match but hit for 14 aces, a tremendous ace % of 29%. Casey Nardino led all scorers with 7 points (4k, 3ace).
Summit will take on #2 Westfield 5:30 tomorrow, Wednesday 10/21, in the first round of counties.
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