Golden Eagle volleyball sinks Pioneers 3-0

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The Golden Eagles held the Pio­neers at bay.

Big Wal­nut held off the fast-closing Pio­neers of Olen­tangy Orange en route to last Thursday’s (Sep­tem­ber 13) 25–11, 25–17, 25–20 Ohio Cap­i­tal Con­fer­ence Cap­i­tal Divi­sion vic­tory at Sunbury.

With the tri­umph, Ron Lehman’s Golden Eagles improved to a per­fect 7–3 over­all and to 6–0 in the Cap­i­tal Divi­sion. Last Tues­day (Sep­tem­ber 11), Big Wal­nut closed out OCC rival New Albany with a 25–21, 25–14, 25–10 home decision.

“The girls played well tonight,” Lehman said. “The pass­ing was really good, they hit the ball well and the serv­ing really helped. We had a ton of aces.”

Abby Painter led with a team-best seven aces all by her­self, adding an addi­tional seven kills to lift her Golden Eagles to the three-game sweep. Join­ing Painter as stat lead­ers were Natalie Chat­ter­ton, who closed with seven kills and one ace; Kalynn Bow­mar, who fin­ished with six kills; and Brooke Hat­field, who fin­ished with four kills.

Posted by Gary Henery on Sep 21 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.