From Coach Bonnie Keepes:
Last night the Jr. Lady Aces took all three matches against the Local St. Mary’s/Allendale team. We had a packed house for 8th grade night and there was so much energy in the gym, it was awesome!
The C- team started us up with a 25-14, 25-9 win. More aces this match, vs during the weekend we had more kills. Avery Coston 1 ace, and an assist, Zoie Randall 7 aces, Alivia Peach 6 aces, and 3 kills, Journey Loudermilk 8 aces an assist, Quincy Keepes 2 aces, Ty Marie McCleave 1 assist, Madelyn Meadows 1 ace.
The JV team won with commanding scores of 25-9, 25-12, like the C match we had many aces and not as many kills. Girls were louder than last match and I liked seeing that, we still need to clean up our 10 serving errors, but we do have a very aggressive lineup of servers.
During the JV match Leah had 4 ace, 2 assists. Kinley Harris 3 aces, Kyleigh Smith an ace, a block, and a kill, Lyla Keepes 12 aces, and 1 kill, Mercedes Dillard a kill, Evie Sellers 2 aces, Brynlie Mounts 2 aces, and Madison Riggs with 2 aces.
In the Varsity match you could feel the energy! We had a huge loud student section and the girls were feeding off of it. The SMS team put up a scrappy defense and we had some very long volleys. The final scores were Aces 25-19, 25-18. Girls were playing aggressively, but we did get caught a few times in miscommunication so we hope to get that out of our system before regionals. I was glad to see some of our players come out with big excitement that I haven’t seen yet. Tenley Davis had 1 kill, Jayla Johnson 9 assists, 3 kills, Ava Giese 2 aces, 2 assists, 1 dig, Elyse Swanson with 5 digs, Evie Knapp with 1 kill, and 2 assists, Mattie Armstrong with 2 aces, 6 assists, Maycee Randall 3 aces 4 kills and a block, Madellyn Bingham 2 kills and 1 block, Anastasia Parker 3 digs, and Miley Peach with an assist. It was a very fun night of Aces Volleyball! We play Fairfield away tomorrow night, then come watch us play at home again on Wednesday against Flora.
