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The Paper photo by Lori Poteet
Crawfordsville senior Chrissy Stevens (center) and junior Haley Grundy (right) each attempt a dig Thursday night. |
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The Paper photo by Lori Poteet
Crawfordsville junior Kylie Justus collides with Sandy Williams in Thursday night’s IHSAA first-round sectional match. |
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| Volleyball
Thursday
IHSAA North Montgomery Sectional
At North Montgomery HS
First round
Game 2
Western Boone 3, Crawfordsville 0
Crawfordsville 11 22 18
Western Boone 25 25 25
Record: Crawfordsville 12-18
Crawfordsville statistics
Elizabeth Zachary – 15 assists, 9 digs, 3 aces, 1 ****
Kylie Justus – 9 digs, 4 kills
Lindsay Leech – 4 kills, 1 block, 1 dig
Haley Grundy – 12 digs, 4 kills
Chrissy Stevens – 4 kills, 4 digs
Sandy Williams – 4 digs
Kelsey Hungerford – 3 digs, 2 kills
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Reprintd coutesy of:
The Paper of Montgomery County
www.thepaper24-7.com
By John Groth
Sports Editor
LINDEN – Senior Chrissy Stevens let out her emotions.
She expected Crawfordsville High School’s volleyball team to recover.
She
remembered the last time Crawfordsville played Sagamore Athletic
Conference rival Western Boone and how the Athenians rallied before
falling in five games.
But in Thursday’s Indiana High School
Athletic Association North Montgomery Sectional first-round match, they
never sustained any comeback momentum.
Western Boone defeated
conference rival Crawfordsville 25-11, 25-22, 25-18 in Thursday’s IHSAA
North Montgomery sectional first-round game, ending Stevens and fellow
senior Elizabeth Zachary’s high school careers.
“It’s
upsetting because I don’t think people ever got to see our true team
and what we’re capable of doing,” said Stevens, who had four kills and
four digs. “I’m excited for the underclassmen and what they’ve got to
show they can do next year.”
Western Boone advances to play
conference rival North Montgomery in Saturday’s 11 a.m. opening
sectional semifinal. North Montgomery defeated conference rival
Danville 25-9, 25-8, 25-7 in Thursday’s other first-round game.
Conference
foes Lebanon and Southmont will meet in Saturday’s second semifinal
with the winners of the two games to meet at 7 p.m. in the
championship.
Crawfordsville (12-18) had won its final two
regular-season games heading into Thursday’s first-round sectional
match. But the Athenians couldn’t contend with the Stars’ outside
hitters and shots.
Western Boone took control of the first two
games thanks to two five-point runs. They went from a 7-4 to 12-4 lead
in the first game and a 13-11 to 18-11 lead in the second game with the
help their outside hitters’ kills and returns.
The Stars’ won the first game convincingly, but the Athenians came back in the second.
After
being down by as many as seven points (18-11), Crawfordsville tied the
game at 20-20 before Stars’ junior Sara Soloman had two key kills and
Western Boone scored five of the final seven points to pull out the
second game, too.
Crawfordsville trailed only 17-15 in the third game before the Stars won seven straight points to put that game out of reach.
“The
girls came out and battled,” Crawfordsville coach Kelly Johnson said.
“They got the lead [in the second and third games]. But it was hard to
stop the strength of their outside swing.”
Zachary led the
Athenians with 15 assists and added nine digs and three aces, while
junior Haley Grundy recorded a team-high 12 digs.
Junior Kylie Justus had nine digs and four kills.
Zachary hoped she and Stevens left a good impression on the rest of the team for next season.
They helped Crawfordsville win its first volleyball sectional championship in 12 years last year.
“We
taught them to be good leaders, have a positive attitude and get mad
when you need to get mad – but don’t take it out on anybody,” she said.
“This team is a lot different. But they’re a lot of fun. They made my
senior year good.”
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