The Hilltoppers have played in the Impact Volleyball Summer Varsity League since the 5th of July. The league features the following teams:
Union Catholic - #4 Union County
Westfield - 2021 COUNTY CHAMPS #15 NJ
Scotch Plains-Fanwood - 2021 COUNTY Runner-Up and 2021 State Sectional Champion #21 NJ
Elizabeth
JP Stevens #13 NJ
St. Thomas Aquinas
Mother Seton 2021 GMC Division Champion
All Season Sports (Players from Elizabeth/Rahway/Union)
Rahway
Linden
Colonia 2021 State Sectional Runner-Up
Roselle Catholic
Woodbridge
South Plainfield
Union #5 Union County
SUMMIT #7 Union County, State Sectional Semi-Finalist
Match-Day 1 Result
vs. St. Thomas Aquinas 1W-1L
vs. Season 0W-2L
First time playing since March. Combination of Varsity and rising 11th graders. Oberhuber injured prior to summer league so not available. New rotation, new positions, just trying to get good reps. Good start, especially for JV athletes playing inn first real varsity experience.
Match-Day 2
vs. Elizabeth 0W-2L
vs. Westfield 0W-2L
Tough opponents in this match day and right before we started, Jackie Szabados hurts her knee in warmups and we have to scramble to adjust (optimistic prognosis right now). Played well but new rotations and alignments caused issues which caused loss. We settled into rotations nicely by last match vs. Westfield and barely lost each set vs. County Champs! We were very happy with our performance!
Match-Day 3
vs. Woodbridge 1W-1L
vs. Rahway 1W-1L
Had only 7 players for each match. Had defensive players in offensive positions and had legitimately only 2 attacking players yet the ladies stepped up and earned two hard-fought victories.
Match-Day 4
vs. Roselle Catholic 2W-0L
vs. Colonia 1W-1L
Still only 7 players but this day we had 3 offensive players and our DS athletes got more comfortable attacking today and it showed. We had our best Match-Day yet and dug our way from the 15th position entering the day to 10th spot by the end of the night. We return to a more normal lineup next week, hoping for another strong outing Match-Day 5 and 6.
