JV earned a hard fought victory over the Payne Tech Lions in 2 sets, 27-25, 25-13, for their 8th win. In set 1, Sarah Noa opened the match with a 6-0 run that seemed to spell the early demise of the Lions. Payne Tech began to chip away at the Hilltopper lead over the next few rotations and the Top saw their lead get cut to a mere 2 points at 10-8. By rotation 4 however, the Lions ran off 5 points and the Summit girls found themselves trailing 14-10. But then Victoria Macarthur happened. The sophomore DS hit for 6 service points and brought her team back to lead 17-14. Payne and SHS could not find any edge or momentum to separate themselves until, trailing 21-17, the Lions woke up and put on a 5-0 run that had the Hilltoppers on the ropes at 23-21. Payne got a match point at 24-21 but failed to get it over the net which led to a 3-0 Summit run that had the Top up 25-24. Despite the fact that SHS was facing its second match point, Summit fought that off and ran off 2 points to come grom behind to get
the set. The match was technically done after Jordan Parella ran off a 7-1 run to open set 2. By rotation 6, Summit held a 15-6 lead and never looked back, finishing off the set and match on a 10-7 run.
The Squad came back the next day and looked to continue the momentum they had created from the Payne Tech victory and it looked like they had done just that with a resounding 25-13 set 1 win that was settled after Thea Rind served up 6 service points against the Rahway Indians to give SHS an 11-4 lead they would never relinquish as they closed out the set 25-13. Olivia Lawlor led the way offensively with 4 kills and 1 block. Parella notched 8 assists as 5 different players getting at least a kill.
Second set was quite different as it was Summit trailing after 6 rotations 14-9. SHS got as close as 23-18 but to no avail as the Indians slammed the door and closed out set 2 25-19. Jaclyn Szabados was all over the court, notching digs (2), kills (2) and hitting for an ace as well. Parella got another 7 assists as she found 5 different players who got a kill.
Although Coach Ross was not happy with the JV performance in the second set, the fact remained that the team held an overwhelming advantage in front row height and had offensively been dominant most of the match. Three service errors in a decisive 3rd set were never going to lead to good things and they did not in this case. Summit trailed 13-6 in rotation 5 but by rotation 6 the match was still in doubt. SHS had trimmed the lead to 14-10 behind Rebekah Thompson´s serving but, with only 1 point to play with, Summit ran out of time and saw their hopes of a comeback get dashed as they dropped the set 15-10.
Summit got a 2 dig, 2 kill performance from Szabados and Eva Oberhuber chimed in with 1 kill.
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Tigers of Linden
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