It was another wild night in SVC Volleyball Thursday.
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Unioto opened some eyes with a three-set sweep over SVC unbeaten Westfall. The Westfall loss and Adena's (3-1) win at Southeastern, allows the Warriors to pull to within one match in the standings with four SVC matches to play.
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Unioto 3, Westfall 0 (25-23, 25-22, 25-21)
(6-4) Unioto showed life Thursday after being swept by Huntington on Tuesday, taking down the SVC front-runners. Set #1 saw both teams get scoring runs with the Shermans holding four point leads, before the (9-1) Mustangs cut a 19-15 deficit to 20-19. Big play by Amber Cottrill put Unioto in the driver's seat scoring 5-4 the rest of the way for a 25-23 opening win.
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Both teams traded leads in Set #2, with Unioto surging late for a 23-19 lead, then finished 25-22 for a (2-0) match lead.
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More of the same in Set #3, as Unioto keeps the edge as late as 22-19, before winning 25-21.
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Unioto stat leaders were:
Amber Cottrill with 13 kills and 13 digs
Kacey Pierce added 15 kills, 1 solo block and 4 block assists
Cree Stulley had 6 kills, 2 solo blocks, 4 block assists and 7 digs
Sophie Coleman 5 pts 16asst. 16 digs
Setter Ava Eldridge dished out 25 assists and had 8 digs
Emily Coleman 11 digs
Hallie Pinkerton with 14 digs.
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Westfall stat leaders:
Josie Williams had 15 kills/14 assists/1 assisted block/14 digs.
Kristin Phillips had 13 kills/1 solo block/3 assisted blocks/14 digs
Claire Latham had 18 assists/8 digs
Kayla Fleischmann had 12 digs
Hailey Young had 11 digs/4 kills/1 assisted block
Lauren Daniels had 7 digs
Grace Wolfe had 6 digs
Marissa Mullins had 3 kills/1 assisted block.
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Adena 3, Southeastern 1 (25-27, 25-16, 25-17, 29-27)
(8-2) Adena pulled to within one match in the standings with a win at (4-6) Southeastern. The Panthers stormed back from deficits of 18-10 and 24-20 in Set #1, for a 27-25 win and a (1-0) lead in the match.
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The Warriors answered in Set #2, pulling away for a 25-16 win, and repeated that with a 25-17 decision in Set #3 for a (2-1) match advantage.
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But, the Panthers got big play at the net from Skylar Hice and Hannah Lougheed to storm out to leads of 11-1, 13-2 and 21-11 in Set #4. That's when Adena answered with a run of their own to pull to within 21-17. The Panthers came right back with a run to 22-18 and 24-21 with "set-point". The Warriors held-on and got their own match-point at 25-24, only to see SE fight-back with two straight points for their own set-point 26-25. Both teams battled to a 27-27 tie, with Adena scoring the final two points for the 29-27 Set #4 win and a (3-1) match victory.
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Hannah Lougheed led the Panthers with 19 kills and 23 digs
Skylar Hice's 18 kills and 28 digs
Lindsey Skeens added 6 kills and 5 blocks
Lexi Lockwood led the defense with 30 digs.
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Makaela Lovely sparked the Warriors fourth set comeback with 5 kills while Ellie Harper added 4 kills along with 2 key blocks from Jenna Martin in the closing set.
For the match, Adena was led by:
Ellie Harper 19 kills
Makenna Lovely 19 kills
Jenna Martin 14 kills, 2 aces and 4 blocks
Makaela Lovely added 7 kills and Sydney Fogelsong had 5 kills and each with two block assists
Hope Garrison had 3 serving aces and Camryn Carroll added 2
Camryn Carroll dug the ball 34 times, Ari DaRif 22, Hope Garrison 20, Makenna Lovely 17 and Olivia Riley 10. makaela Lovely had 31 assists and DaRif with 23.
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Huntington 3, Zane Trace 2 (25-22, 25-22, 18-25, 23-25, 17-15
The other wild match of the night was (6-4) Huntington's win over (5-5) Zane Trace. After winning the first two sets by identical scores, the Pioneers fought back to tie the match, only to lose a tough 17-15 fifth set.
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Huntington stat leaders:
Allison Basye 23 kills 15 digs, 3 solo Block, 9 serving points 2 ace and 13 serve receive.
Megan Steele 33 kills, 19 digs, 8 pts served 2 aces, 1 double block and 21 serv receive.
Alyssa Steele 53 assist, 13 digs, 8 pts served, 1 ace and 3 kills.
Harmony Henneberger 18 digs, 21 serve receive, 9 pts served, 3 aces and 2 assists.
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ZT stat leaders:
A. Bennett: 14 kills, 20 assts, 15/19 service, 2 aces, 23/24 serve receive, 2 block assts, 28 digs
L. Betts: 2 assts, 16/16 service, 22/24 serve receive, 27 digs
L. Hill: 3 kills, 20/21 service, 2 aces, 30/33 serve receive, 2 block assts, 18 digs
K. May: 21 assts, 12/14 service, 16 digs
H. Hale: 12 kills, 1 block asst, 8 digs
E. Allen: 10 kills, 4 solo blocks, 8 block assts, 3 digs
A. Crow: 14 kills, 1 solo block
G. McCullough: 1 block asst
L. Scott: 7 kills, 7 assts, 2 block assts, 4 digs
D. Berry: 21/21 service, 4 digs
E. Harber: 18/18 service, 1 ace, 16/17 serve receive, 15 digs
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Paint Valley 3, Piketon 1 (25-12, 25-23, 8-25, 25-20)
Olivia Smith led the Bearcats with 16 kills and 23 digs in gaining their second SVC win of the season
Kayla Chapman added 6 kills and 18 digs for Paint Valley
Defensively, Abbi Stanforth had 18 digs
11 each coming from Averi McFadden and Bailey Brumfield.
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No stats available for Piketon.