LADY HILLTOPPER VBALL BLOG : SUMMER LEAGUE UPDATE - HALFWAY POINT OF LEAGUE PLAY 7/14

Saturday, July 17, 2021

SUMMER LEAGUE UPDATE - HALFWAY POINT OF LEAGUE PLAY 7/14

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.

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2023 TEAM HIGHLIGHTS

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