Lady Pioneers Turn the Heat up on Birds

The Lady Pioneers Volleyball team travelled to the sauna-like confines of Ft. Thomas Highlands gym for a tri-match with the Bluebirds on Thursday night. Highlands is in the process of being renovated and the air conditioning wasn’t working tonight in the gym.

The Lady Neers lose the Freshman match but come back to take the JV and Varsity matches. The Varsity team moves out to an early season record of 2-1.

In varsity action, the girls seemed to not be bothered by the heat. Their high level of energy was apparent right out of the shoot as they jumped on Highlands early and often thanks to some strong outside hitting Caverly (5 kills), Eudy (6 kills) and Murray (5 kills). Once the strong hitting set the tone for the match, Sophie Dunn stepped up and reeled several strong serves off as SK jumped out to a 22-10 lead. The Birds would catch some positive air and cut into the SK lead. Coach Atwood called a timeout to settle the troops and the team finished the set for a 25-16 win. The momentum captured by Highlands late in the first set was able to continue early on in the second set. SK lost some of the bounce in their step and fell behind by a score of 14-7. However, the girls regrouped behind the service of Dunn once again and continued to chip into the Bird lead.  With SK down 18-14, Coach Atwood turned to the service over to Rachel Schneider who cut even more into the lead. SK would find their first lead of the set at 21-20 and finished off the Birds for a 25-22 victory.    Dunner would finish a strong match with 13 assists and 6 aces while Libero Kelsey Henderson would finish the match with 9 digs.

In JV action, the SK girls had to go to three sets in order to take down the Birds. They won the match by taking Highlands by 21-17 and then put the hammer down in the deciding set by a 15-6 score. Although the Frosh team didn’t come away with the win, they also took Highlands to 3 very closely contested sets before succumbing to some bad luck in the deciding set after several leads.

The varsity team will travel to Lexington this weekend to compete in the Bluegrass Invitational Tournament. Good luck!

The way it is drawn up
Set

Hit

Celebrate


Eudy with a first set kill.


Let's GO!


Robinson successfully tips; hey, what's the girl on top of the bleachers doing?


Going on point.


Fig with a block in the third JV set.


Carson with a flier in JV action.


Maggie Mac with a nice hit in the Frosh game.