Golden Eagle volleyball handles Hayes, Heights in OCC

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It was any­thing but easy, but Big Wal­nut pulled out its ninth straight Ohio Cap­i­tal Con­fer­ence Cap­i­tal Divi­sion vic­tory of the sea­son, improv­ing to 10–4 over­all and 9–0 in the league with last Tuesday’s (Sep­tem­ber 25) four-set win over vis­it­ing Delaware Hayes in Sunbury.

The Pac­ers made the Golden Eagles bat­tle for every point. Big Wal­nut won the first set 25–18 — it’s most con­vinc­ing win of the night — before squeez­ing out a 26–24 win in the sec­ond. Hayes bat­tled back in the third, tak­ing the set by a 25–23 mar­gin, only to see the hosts seal the deal with a 25–19 win in the fourth and final game.

“I thought we served tough which, at times, kept them (Hayes) off-balance,” Golden Eagle head coach Ron Lehman said. “But Delaware played really well … they really chal­lenged us in what was a pretty good back-and-fourth battle.”

Natalie Chat­ter­ton led the Eagle offense with 12 kills. Abby Painter was also solid, clos­ing with eight kills while Kalynn Bow­mar and Claire Chat­ter­ton closed with seven and six, respectively.

Rachel Howser led Hayes (5–12, 3–6 OCC) with 13 kills. Krysta Iwanek fin­ished with 10 kills while Jen Fore­man had a team-best 22 digs, Can­dice Rath­burn had 16 digs, Sarah Scott closed with three aces and Ivy Han­k­ins had 30 assists in the setback.

BIG WALNUT 25–25-25, WATKINS MEMORIAL 8–13-10 — The Golden Eagles reached double-digits in con­fer­ence vic­to­ries with last Thursday’s three-game sweep of the vis­it­ing War­riors in Sunbury.

Big Wal­nut (11–4), sit­ting atop the Ohio Cap­i­tal Con­fer­ence Cap­i­tal Divi­sion with an unblem­ished 10–0 record, was led by the tri­umvi­rate of Mor­gan Alley, Abby Painter and Kylee Williams in dis­patch­ing Watkins Memorial.

Alley was 16-for-19 serv­ing with 3 aces while record­ing 73 sets and 19 assists. Painter con­tributed 3 aces on a 10-for-13 serv­ing effort while post­ing 11 kills. Williams was a per­fect 15-for-15 at the ser­vice line while col­lect­ing 12 digs. Alexis New­man turned in a match-high 20 digs while Natalie Chat­ter­ton added 9 kills and 4 blocks and Brooke Hat­field fin­ished with 7 kills and 3 blocks.

Posted by Gary Henery on Oct 3 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.