LADY HILLTOPPER VBALL BLOG : IRVINGTON BLUE KNIGHTS NO MATCH FOR HILLTOPPERS IN ROUND 1 OF N2G3 TOURNAMENT

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

IRVINGTON BLUE KNIGHTS NO MATCH FOR HILLTOPPERS IN ROUND 1 OF N2G3 TOURNAMENT

The Hilltoppers had a 20-1 kill advantage and an 18-3 ace advantage in a 25-10, 25-8 match victory that propelled the Summit squad to the Quarter-Final match at home on Wednesday versus Barringer High School.

Despite a 22-2 scoring advantage in game 1, the Hilltoppers got out to a slow start and trailed 5-1 at the start after giving up an ace and tallying 4 consecutive hitting errors. After that auspicious start however, SHS started to find its rhythm and outscored the Blue Knights 24-5 to wrap up game 1. Meghan Tarashuk and Gabbie Guidetti led the onslaught with 7 aces and Vivian Roberts and Erin Vostal combined for 8 kills from 9 swings with 0 errors to lead the Maroon and White to a game 1 victory.

Game 2 was more of the same with the Hilltoppers dominating play from the service line and getting outstanding production from their offensive players in route to a 25-8 score. Summit opened up an 8-2 lead early and never looked back as Irvington could not get any closer than 8-4 before Summit embarked on a 9-2 run that had the Blue Knights reeling down 17-6. Despite a Hilltopper service error, the Top closed out the match on another 8-1 run and, appropriately enough, ninth grader Zoe Zacharias closed out the match on 2 consecutive aces.

Zacharias and Vostal led the way from the service line with 6 aces on 11 attempts and only 2 errors and Vostal joined teammate Eva Oberhuber offensively with a combined 6 kills on 9 attempts with 0 errors. The team was error free in game 2 from an offensive perspective and had 8 total kills on just 13 attempts!

Kasey Walsh had an outstanding game 1, tallying 12 assists to 5 different players before giving way to the game 2 setting tandem of Zacharias and Olivia Lawlor who tallied for a combined 6 assists.

Erin Vostal again led the Hilltoppers in points with 10 and had a net point total of 9 to lead the Top and 7 other players ended at a positive net point result for the match.

Next up, Quarter-Finals, Barringer, 5:15pm, Summit High School Gym, Wednesday the 14th of April.

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