North Nodaway’s girls' volleyball team honored its coach, Jody Newman, before the varsity game with Union Star Tuesday night, October 7th. She continued to coach the girls even as she was battling breast cancer. People wore pink shirts, and the players wore pink warmups.
The junior high started off its first set with a tight match. North Nodaway fell behind 5-0 but fought back to tie it at 7. The game was tied at 8, 9, 10, and 11 before the serving of Arianna Owens allowed them to gain separation. Some more aces by Scarlett Brown pushed them up 21-11 before Hudsyn Sample’s serving brought the Trojans back to within 21-16. But then the serving of Avary Volner for the Mustangs helped them regain control and they closed out a 25-16 win in the first set.
Scarlett Brown had 3 kills. Marin Alexander had 2, and Zoey Pearson and Arianna Owens had 1. Zoey Pearson had 2 assists while Scarlett Brown and Chandra Wyllie had 1. Arianna Owens had 4 aces. Scarlett Brown and Avarie Volner had 3 while Zoey Pearson had 1.
In the second set, they could not get off the floor against Sample, and they dug themselves into a 12-1 hole they could not get out of as they fell 25-9. Zoey Pearson, Zaylynn Luke, Arianna Owens, and Chandra Wyllie all had 1 kill. Zaylynn Luke and Arianna Owens had 1 assist each. Zalynn Luke, Zoey Pearson, Chandra Wyllie, and Arianna Owens had 1 ace each.
But in the third set, they got their composure back. Arianna Owens got a kill to give the Mustangs the serve up 3-1 and then Avarie Volner got consecutive aces to put them up 5-1. The lead stayed between four and six before the Trojans closed to within 11-8. But then Chandra Wyllie got a kill and Scarlett Brown was on the serve. Zoey Pearson got a first hit kill and then Brown got consecutive aces to close out a 15-8 win.
For the varsity, the numbers game took its toll on the Mustangs as Union Star has 19 players listed on its roster, while North Nodaway is down to eight. Union Star has the ability to conduct full scrimmages, a luxury that North Nodaway does not have. The results showed themselves; North Nodaway swept the Trojans earlier in the year, only to get swept Tuesday night. Union Star had the ability to rest key players, while the Mustangs could not.
Lacy Riley did all she could in the first set, getting 9 assists and setting up teammates throughout the match. Zoey Phillips and Lily Blane had 1 each.
But after leading by as much as 10-5 in the first game, the toll of the numbers game began to tell. MaKenna Grace began to control the floor from there for the Trojans, spiking everything hit to her whether she was in the front row or the back, and North Nodaway didn’t have an answer for her. North Nodaway fell 25-20 in the first set.
Addalea Barcus had 5 kills in the set. Lily Blane had 3, Laney Turner had 2, and Lacy Riley 1. Lily Blane had 2 aces and Eliza Clements 1.
North Nodaway dug itself into a 7-2 hole in the second match and could never catch up, although they closed to within two at one point before falling 25-21.
Lily Blane and Lacy Riley had 3 kills each. Eliza Clements, Addalea Barcus, and Laney Turner had 2 each. Lacy Riley had 4 assists. Lily Blane had 3, and Laney Turner and Eliza Clements had 2 each. Freshman Zoey Phillips has been working on a jump serve, and it paid off in that set as she had 3 aces. Lily Blane, Eliza Clements, and Laney Turner had 1 each.
Good ball handling by the Mustangs allowed them to erase an early 4-2 deficit and they got ahead 11-9. But then the bottom dropped out and everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong as they fell behind and lost 25-13 in the third set.
Addalea Barcus had 3 kills. Eliza Clements had 2, and Lacy Riley, Lily Blane, and Zoey Phillips had 1 each.
Lacy Riley had 4 assists. Lily Blane had 2 and Eliza Clements and Laney Turner had 1 each.
Addalea Barcus and Laney Turner had 1 ace each.
The junior varsity was a totally different story as Lily Blane was able to control the game in the first set and set everyone else up. Lily got three kills in a row to stake the Mustangs out to a 5-0 lead, one they did not relinquish. A back-row spike by Blane killed a Trojan rally and two aces pushed the Mustangs back up 13-5. From there, the Mustangs steadily pulled away to a 25-12 win.
Lily Blane had 5 kills. Laney Turner, Zoey Phillips, and Taccoa Moyer had 2, while Eliza Clements had 1.
Lily Blane had 5 assists. Eliza Clements had 4, Zoey Phillips 2, and Laney Turner 1.
Lily Blane, Taccoa Moyer, and Eliza Clements had 2 aces each. Zoey Phillips had 1.
In the final set, the Mustangs may have found a new server as Taccoa Moyer carried the Mustangs with four straight aces in the early going as they erased a 2-1 deficit to take a 5-2 lead. Laney Turner got a couple of kills and Eliza Clements got some more aces as the lead grew to 13-3. From there, the Mustangs pulled away to a 25-12 win.
Laney Turner had 5 kills, as she has been starting to harness her newfound height; she put on a big growth spurt between last year and this year and it’s starting to pay off at the volleyball net. Lily Blane had 3 and Savannah Rucker had 1.
Lily Blane had 5 assists. Eliza Clements and Zoey Phillips had 2 each.
Taccoa Moyer had 5 aces. Eliza Clements had 4 and Lily Blane had 3.
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