Wednesday, September 1, 2021

LAKELAND LANCERS NO MATCH FOR SUMMIT SERVING OFFENSE

 The Summit Lady Hilltoppers opened up their first home scrimmage versus the Lakeland Regional Lancers and continued to show that the staple of this team's success across all three levels is still their serving.  

The 9th graders,  in their first scrimmage of the season,  dispatched the Lancers with a 3-0 result.  Although there are many first time players on the squad,  the team features a core of experienced players who should be help the Maroon and White be successful against many opponents this season.

The Junior Varsity is led by a core of four juniors - Clark, Kim, Wells and Yarden - and complemented by 12 talented sophomores who seem to have the passing and size to look forward to a very happy season.  Meltzer led off set 1 with a 7-0 run from the service line that set the tone for the match.  The Lancers never really recovered and got only as close as 10-6 but then Yarden ripped off 3 service points to get the lead back up to 13-6 and teammate Wells followed up with a crushing 6 point run to extend the lead to 20-9 and the set was essentially over.  Final score of opening set, 25-14, SHS.

The second set proved to be much of the same with Wells breaking open the set early with an 11 point serving assault, giving the team a 12-2 lead when she was done.  Cooper then went on a mini run a few rotations later of 4 points and the outcome, if it was ever in doubt,  was just about set in stone with the Hilltoppers in control 22-6.  It took only one more service rotation to seal the deal and the final 25-6 score was reflective of the serving dominance of the Maroon and White on this day.

The Varsity Team followed with yet another lineup in this 3rd official scrimmage of the season looking for some answers to some troublesome rotations.  Captain Thompson started the squad off with a 9-0 run and the Maroon and White immediately took control with a 10-1 lead.  The Lancers continued to struggle to find passing consistency and Noa took full advantage in rotation 5 with a 5-0 run that had the Hilltoppers up 21-8.  The rest was academic and Summit closed out set 1 25-11.

Thompson notched a team high 5 aces in the set.  Barlow and Wauters set the offensive tone with minimal opportunities with 3 kills apiece.  Rind and Thompson notched 2 digs each against a limited Lancer attack and Wauters and Roberts got a block each to help defensively when they were needed.  Zacharias still found 8 assists out there despite limited assist opportunities.

Set two saw a much more spirited Lancer team that was able to pressure the Hilltoppers and force the home squad to execute on offense.  The Top had a lot of unforced errors early and actually trailed the Lakeland Varsity by 3 at the end of rotation 6 by a tally of 15-12 and 17-13 by the end of rotation 7.  But a Lancer serving error opened the door for Thompson who proceeded to burst right through it with a 7 point service run to flip the script and give the Hilltoppers a 21-17 lead.  Summit never yielded the lead after that and closed out the set 2 rotations later, 25-20.

Thompson and MacArthur hit for 5 of the team's 6 aces (3 and 2 respectively) and Noa joined Thompson in receiving with 6 of the team's 10 perfect passes and led the way with a 2.40 pass rating.  With limited opportunities,  Webb and Oberhuber notched 2 kills each to lead the Top while defensively, Thompson notched 3 digs and Lipschitz and Barlow added 2 each.

Set three saw the home team jump out to a 9-3 lead after a Barlow 7-0 service run but the team failed to remain consistent in the next 4 rotations from a serving and offensive perspective and saw the Lancers crawl to within three at 15-12 before Zacharias ran off a mini 2-0 run to give the Maroon and White a more comfortable 17-12 lead.  A service error and a receive error by the Hilltoppers had Lakeland within 2 at 18-16 but then the Lancers missed a critical serve that put Webb on serve at 21-16.  Webb hit for 3 quick aces and the rest was academic as the Summit Lady Hilltoppers closed the Lancers out 25-16.

Webb led the ace party with 4 of the team's 7 for the set.  Five different players had a kill in the set, for a total of 8, with Basaman, Wauters and Roberts each tallying two.  Thompson was instrumental in transition with 6 digs of the team's 11 and Zacharias used those opportunities to feed the ball to key hitters that helped the sophomore setter tally 7 assists.  

From a point production perspective,  Barlow led all Hilltoppers with 9 points, followed by Thompson who hit for 6 from the service line,  Webb scored 7 and Wauters notched 6 in a match that saw the Top score a total of 48 points over three sets for a 16 point per set average.  

Team Leaders:

Assists- Zacharias 15 (7.5 per set)

Blocks- Webb / Wauters / Roberts (1 each)

Digs- Thompson 11

Kills- Barlow /  Wauters (5 each)

Kill %- Wauters 83.3%

Kill Efficiency- Wauters .833

Pass Rating- Noa 2.33

3 Pass %- Thompson 46.2%

Aces- Thompson 8 

Ace %- Webb 57.1%

Serving %- Webb 100%

Point Scoring %- Thompson 84.2%


Ridge Next Up for all levels today.  4pm JV and 9th Graders,  Varsity 5:30pm


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